Jun 2025 – Present · 10 mos · New York, NY · Remote

• Lead strategic partnerships, commercialization initiatives, and enterprise payment strategy across Pavilion’s gaming and emerging omnichannel platforms. Work cross-functionally with executive, product, and engineering teams to modernize the payment stack, evaluate partners, and align infrastructure decisions with revenue growth, scalability, and long-term platform flexibility.
• +Lead evaluation, negotiation, and selection of issuing, acquiring, and network partners across regulated markets, helping optimize economics, redundancy, and global expansion capabilities.
• +Support development of Pavilion’s broader payments commercialization strategy spanning iGaming, retail, and F&B, aligning partner strategy with approval rates, margin optimization, and enterprise growth objectives.
• +Own and expand relationships across financial institutions, sponsor banks, networks, and technology providers (Visa, Mastercard, Amex and key processing partners) to ensure long-term platform flexibility and commercial alignment.
• +Collaborate with product, engineering, and executive leadership to assess gateways, orchestration layers, tokenization strategies, and payout infrastructure to future-proof the platform.
• +Support enterprise go-to-market initiatives through a hybrid role spanning strategic partnerships, complex deal support, and consultative architecture guidance for advanced operators.
• +Advise internal teams and clients on compliant, scalable payment architecture across omnichannel funding, wallet ecosystems, and regulated environments.
• +Pavilion Payments is a Parthenon Capital company.

Jun 2025 – Present · 10 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · Remote

• As Managing Editor at Neutral Payments, I orchestrated the editorial direction and content scheduling for an innovative platform dedicated to unbiased insights in the payments sector. My role involved fostering collaborations and conducting interviews to enrich our content offerings, ultimately contributing to significant audience growth and engagement.
• Position is editorial only*
• Opinions are my own*

Jun 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr · New York, New York, United States · Remote

• Led business growth initiatives across EU, UK, Canada, and US, collaborating with merchants, ISVs, resellers and channel partners to create actionable & accountable ROI.
• Onboarded new channel partners and forged strategic alliances with FinTech companies to drive revenue. Ultimately, maintaining account management of aforementioned partner post signing to create a GTM strategy.
• Enhanced protocols to boost sales partner engagement and activation including suggesting new software or customizations (Outreach, Salesforce, Outlook, Zapier).
• Consult with merchants (SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise) regarding a multi-processor strategy to help improve approval ratio, lower interchange fees (costs), and create redundancy
• Took ownership of Enterprise Low Risk growth at Corepay to help support initial direct iban in US market, including meeting with acquiring banks and tech stack partners to enable the market launch

Dec 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

• Humboldt is a boutique division of North American Bancard, focusing on high risk & specialty verticals.
• Direct sales focused on gaming, fantasy sports, travel, e-commerce (general), CNP Liquor & Tobacco, subscriptions, & luxury goods
• Clients of all sizes (SMB to Mid-Market to Enterprise) catering consultation to client's need
• On-boarding sales partners, referral agents, independent sales organizations (ISOs), and independent agents to re-distribute Humboldt suite of products
• continuous account management of self sourced and boarded sales partners, fostering the relationship and increasing 3rd party submissions in our targeted verticals
• Full Cycle Sales from prospecting to close, and beyond to ensure merchant satisfaction & retention
• Account management of channel partners to drive revenue & growth
• Implement financial technology on behalf of direct clients, coordinating with multiple internal & external stakeholders

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · Remote

• North American Bancard is the 6th largest privately held processor in the country based in Detroit, Michigan for the past 30 years. We work with businesses of all sizes (SMB, Mid-market, & Enterprise) and pride ourself on helping these customers achieve their payment technology goals.

Nov 2019 – Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Manhattan, New York, United States

Nov 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Manhattan, New York, United States

• We fought through a global pandemic and successfully branded ourselves as Gilded Ritual offering products online & services at our beautiful flagship location in TriBeCa.
• Key goals achieved:
• 1) Site selection & lease negotiation of first retail location
• 2) Market analysis to optimize our go-to-market strategy
• 3) Opened as a manicure & pedicure only spa to leverage customer hesitation during the fluid & ever evolving global pandemic
• 4) Developed e-commerce website with integrated booking platform & CRM automation
• 5) Set up & negotiate key strategic partnerships with local businesses & marketing opportunities to help drive brand awareness
• 6) Launched Christina Fitzgerald In the US, including obtaining proper import & export certification
• 7) Hired initial opening staff
• 8) Created a marketing plan to ensure profitable growth was prioritized
• 9) Oversaw SEO, SEM, social media, influencer marketing initiatives
• 1 of 2 Co-Founders!

Jan 2013 – Mar 2020 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Manhattan, NY

• Cane + Austin is a luxury skincare collection offering products utilizing glycolic acid.
• Executed multiple projects to generate profitable revenue growth
• Collaborated with several stakeholders in an entrepreneurial environment
• Launched consumer product distribution on Amazon under two storefronts: Vendor & Seller
• Negotiated strategic marketing partnerships with Gilt, ClassPass, RueLaLa, & Birchbox
• Account management of key accounts: Macy's, Sephora, SpaceNk, BlueMercury, Bloomingdales, Amazon
• Isolated key objectives & marketing initiatives of strategic accounts to increase store location placement, revenue per store,
• Used key logos to drive outreach to mid-market & SMB accounts through inbound leads & outbound prospecting

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · New York, NY

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Cresskill, New Jersey

Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs · New York, NY

• Research Assistant in dermatopathology division of the Department of Dermatology/Pathology. Presented a poster as first author on a rare skin tumor at the American Society of Dermatopathology (ASDP) in Chicago.

Dec 2008 – Sep 2009 · 9 mos · Albany, NY

• Introduced carcinogens via UV radiation to yeast cells. Charted the growth (or lack of) afterwards on plates rich in varied nutrients needed to promote growth. Analyzed the data afterwards. As a paid summer research intern, I was given a project of introducing a point mutation into the DNA of E. coli, and analyzing the effects during DNA replication. Gained experience in sequencing, PCR, isolating DNA, gel electrophoresis, laboratory maintenance and basic laboratory techniques.