Irina Chuchkina

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom18 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Led Wallet in Telegram to 100M users.
  • Established Thunes as a top-250 Fintech startup.
  • Drove 70% revenue growth year-on-year.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Marketing Executive with extensive experience in growth strategies and digital payments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Growth And Commercial StrategyDigital PaymentsGo-to-market StrategyDemand GenerationB2b Marketing StrategyBrand ManagementCommunications StrategyMarketing Strategy

Other Skills

Strategic ThinkingLaunchesCampaign EffectivenessExecutive ManagementTeam ManagementFinancial ServicesFinTechDigital MarketingStrategic CommunicationsLead GenerationTeam LeadershipInfluencer MarketingLeadershipBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Strategy

About

I’m a Marketing & Growth executive, specialising in Fintech and Technology and fast-growing global projects. I pride myself on blending strategic, systemic thinking with hands-on execution, data-driven decision-making, a strong revenue focus, and brand-building expertise. Currently, I am Chief Growth Officer at Wallet in Telegram, a digital asset platform natively embedded into Telegram’s chat settings. Since 2021, Wallet in Telegram gained 100M users, and aims to make its solution available to all 1BN+ of Telegram’s users. Previously, I was CMO at Volt, the global innovator in Open Banking and Real-time Payments, CMO at Thunes, a global Payment infrastructure platform, and led Global Brand & Communications at Rapyd, a global B2B Fintech-as-a-service. Prior to that, I was in charge of Regional Partner Marketing for one of Asia's most exciting and successful B2C technology companies, Grab, where I helped to launch its regional loyalty platform, GrabRewards, as well as its mobile wallet, GrabPay. I also spent 7 years at Visa, where I helped grow Visa's Innovation Lab presence in APAC, ran Client, Innovation and Merchant Marketing in Russia, was part of the Olympic Games and World Cup mega-campaigns, and launched solutions that changed the way people pay. My areas of expertise include: • Growth and Commercial Strategy • Startups and Digital businesses • Go-to-Market Strategy • Revenue generation • B2B x B2C = B2B2C Marketing • Partnerships and Alliances • Digital Payments • Channel & Partner Marketing • Product Marketing • Super-apps

Experience

Velocity

Advisor

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos

Wallet in telegram

Chief Growth Officer

May 2025Present · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

  • Wallet in Telegram is a digital asset wallet natively embedded into Telegram.
  • With 140M+ registered users, Wallet in Telegram aims to make its solution available to all 1BN+ of Telegram’s users.
  • In my role as CGO of Wallet in Telegram, I oversee Wallet's Marketing and Global Expansion.
Strategic ThinkingGo-to-Market StrategyLaunchesCampaign EffectivenessExecutive ManagementTeam Management+2

Volt.io

Chief Marketing Officer

Jan 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Volt is the new leader in real-time payments. Our next-generation payment network unites domestic schemes to a single harmonised standard. Global, instant and interoperable, it’s driving the shift to an era where real time is the only time.
LaunchesStrategic ThinkingCampaign EffectivenessTeam ManagementGo-to-Market StrategyExecutive Management+1

Thunes

Chief Marketing Officer

Aug 2021Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

  • Thunes is a B2B Payments infrastructure company that powers payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses - from Southeast Asia's superapp Grab and Gig Economy giants to Fintech leaders such as PayPal and Remitly.
  • As Thunes' first CMO, my goal was to establish a global brand, set up demand generation and growth engine, support pipeline growth, and unlock new revenue streams.
  • Within my time with Thunes I:
  • Hired and onboarded a team of productive and autonomous experts across Content & Comms, Demand Generation, and Field Marketing;
  • Structured Thunes' marketing strategy, content, communications, and event strategy and plans;
  • Launched Thunes first brand campaign, resulting in 3M impressions and driving education on its capabilities;
  • Orchestrated the company’s participation in 30+ industry conferences yielding up to 5x ROI from events,
  • Launched 35+ public announcements, including funding round, acquisitions and strategic partnerships, which resulted in Thunes being named among the top-250 Fintech startups globally by CB Insights, Top-100 Cross-Border Payments companies by FXC Intelligence, and receiving multiple features in Tier-1 Tech, Broadcast and Industry media, such as Forbes, TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, WSJ etc.;
  • Set up the demand generation, ABM and digital marketing practices, unifying its Marketing Technology stack, and introducing key performance metrics for lead generation and qualification;
  • Successfully launched email marketing campaigns with 200k+ emails sent annually;
  • In addition to that, I also led the Go-to-Market, Product Strategy and ICP development projects; identifying new customer segments, defining the company's product value proposition, and successfully executing launch and GTM plans.
  • A combination of these efforts resulted in a 3x website traffic increase, 16x increase in leads generated over a 2y period and $10+M in the new sales pipeline, and contributed to the consistent +70% revenue growth y-o-y.
Demand GenerationLaunchesFinTechStrategic ThinkingCampaign EffectivenessDigital Marketing+11

Rapyd

2 roles

Global Head of Brand and Communications

Promoted

Apr 2021Aug 2021 · 4 mos · Singapore

  • In this role I led Rapyd's global Brand, Communications and Social media strategy and execution.
  • Rapyd is a global Fintech-as-a-Service company that offers cloud-based access to Fintech and Payment capabilities anywhere in the world. It is the fastest way to power local payments anywhere, enabling companies to expand internationally without building complex payments infrastructure.
LaunchesStrategic ThinkingCampaign EffectivenessFinancial ServicesInfluencer MarketingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)+3

Marketing Director, APAC

Apr 2019Apr 2021 · 2 yrs · Singapore

  • As a Marketing Director responsible for the Asia Pacific region, I single-handedly led all elements of the Marketing & Comms within the region: Digital Marketing and Lead Generation, PR, Event Management, Content creation, Country launch planning and Sales enablement.
  • I also doubled as a Rapyd's global Social Media lead.
Demand GenerationLaunchesStrategic ThinkingCampaign EffectivenessFinancial ServicesInfluencer Marketing+3

Singapore fintech association (sfa)

Member of the Executive Committee

Mar 2021Mar 2023 · 2 yrs · Singapore

  • SFA is a cross-industry non-profit initiative, designed to facilitate collaboration between all market participants and stakeholders in the FinTech ecosystem: from governments and large FIs to Fintech entrepreneurs across verticals and stages.
  • SFA's goal is to help its members grow their business, expand across borders, identify partnerships, hire new talent, and find solutions to issues.
Strategic ThinkingFinancial ServicesTeam ManagementLeadershipExecutive Management

Singapore fintech festival

SFF Ambassador

Aug 2020Nov 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • SFF brings together the global FinTech community to engage, connect, and collaborate on issues relating to the development of financial services, public policy, and technology. As the world’s most impactful FinTech festival, last year’s edition brought together over 66,000 participants from 150 countries.
Financial Services

Grab

Regional Head of Partner Marketing

Mar 2017Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Singapore

  • Grab is Southeast Asia's leading SuperApp. Founded in 2012 as a ride-hailing company, it now operates across 8 main markets in Southeast Asia, has over 180m app downloads and offers multiple services.
  • I joined the company in 2016 and throughout my 26 months Grab journey supported multiple business lines: Transport, Payments (GrabPay), Loyalty (GrabRewards), Food delivery (GrabFood) and New Business Verticals.
  • As a Regional Partner Marketing lead, I analyzed the opportunities for potential partnerships and alliances, developed marketing strategies, accelerating business growth for various business verticals, negotiated deals and launched numerous Regional Marketing Campaigns across Southeast Asia.
  • I led a multi-talented team that worked with Grab’s Strategic Partners as Marketing Consultants, helping both Grab and partner businesses achieve their goals, grow customer base and provide better and more engaging services to Grab users.
  • Portfolio of Marketing partnerships that I originated and was responsible for comprised of three main buckets:
  • 1. Payment partners: Mastercard, Visa, American Express, PayPal, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank etc.
  • 2. Travel partners: Singapore Airlines, Booking.com, Agoda, international hotel groups etc.
  • 3. Lifestyle partners: Disney, LiveUp, Spotify, LaLiga, UEFA Champions League, TripAdvisor, Universal, Red Cross, WWF, Unicef, One Championship, Tinder and many others.
LaunchesStrategic ThinkingFinancial ServicesTeam ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Marketing Strategy

Visa

5 roles

Marketing & Communications Director, Innovation Center

Jun 2016Feb 2017 · 8 mos · Singapore

  • I worked on enhancing Visa’s value proposition and exposure of new features to the Fintech and Banking community across APAC.
  • I drove thought leadership and education on Visa Innovation Center's capabilities and was responsible for creating awareness about them across a variety of channels: from internal communication and client-facing assets such as case studies, to industry events and conferences, social media and direct marketing campaigns.
  • I led Visa Innovation Centre's events & community initiatives: identifying opportunities, working on speakers, agenda and operations, and facilitating events.
  • I was evangelizing Design thinking principles across the organization and beyond, participating in co-creation sessions, sharing best practices and developing new ways to engage partners.
Strategic ThinkingFinancial ServicesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Director, Partner & Innovations Marketing, Russia

Oct 2014Dec 2014 · 2 mos

  • Partner & Product Marketing role combining B2C and B2B exposure, with responsibility for Visa's largest merchant partners, 4 product categories, people management functions and control over a $5m+ budget.
Strategic ThinkingFinancial ServicesTeam ManagementBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Contactless & Partner Marketing manager

Sep 2012Sep 2014 · 2 yrs

Financial ServicesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Business Development manager

Aug 2011Sep 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Delivered double-digit revenue growth from accounts by increasing efficiency of clients businesses through portfolio optimization, risk management, customer segmentation and marketing activities
  • Negotiated an exclusive deal with one of the top Russian Private Banks by developing an exclusively customized product
  • Implemented 6 new product launches in the accounts under management
Financial ServicesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Marketing Manager

Jul 2009Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Acted as a dedicated marketing consultant for Visa’s top-50 Clients (Global and Local retail banks).
  • Delivered and executed bespoke campaigns, helping Clients to improve their performance and achieve targets.
  • Led national marketing campaigns with the participation of 100+ Banks.
  • Implemented digital and CRM projects.
  • Tracked campaign performance and ROI.
Financial ServicesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Vtb24

Cards Brand manager

Nov 2007Jul 2009 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • VTB24 was one of Top-3 Russian retail Banks.
  • As a Debit & Credit Cards project lead, I planned and ran all marketing activities related to card products.
  • Relaunched the full range of retail products, contributing to the 4.5x growth of clients portfolio (1.5m in 2007 to 6.7m clients in 2009).
  • Shaped and executed Marketing strategy for all card-related communication: defining value propositions, card design, designing the customers onboarding journey and collaterals, producing and launching national marketing campaigns.
  • Launched new product lines across all segments: from Debit / Payroll cards to Ultra-Premium and Private Banking products.
Financial Services

Russian standard bank

2 roles

Marketing Communications Manager

Promoted

Jul 2006Nov 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Russian Standard Bank is a leading retail bank in Russia, and one of the pioneers of credit card issuing and merchant acquiring. To date, the bank has issued over 46 million credit cards.
  • In my role, I helped plan nationwide campaigns across both traditional and new media, coordinate media agencies, and oversee a $25 million media budget (the largest of any Russian retail bank at the time), with the goal of driving awareness and customer acquisition for credit cards and loan portfolio of the bank. I was also responsible for coordinating a team of 20+ regional advertising managers across Russia.
Financial Services

Personal Assistant to SVP, Marketing and Retail business

Jul 2005Jun 2006 · 11 mos

Education

INSEAD

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jan 2015Jan 2015

NEOMA Business School

Undergraduate Program in European management

Jan 2002Jan 2002

State University of Management (SUM)

Sociology

Jan 2000Jan 2005

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