Michaela LeBlanc Weber has joined Mollie as our new Vice President of Partnerships, working to develop and keep our sturdy relationships with native and world companions. Michaela will lead the event of our accomplice community to supply small- and medium-sized ecommerce companies with entry to cutting-edge SaaS-based instruments and assist them to compete with bigger ecommerce opponents.
“We’re very happy to welcome Michaela to our crew. She is a seasoned professional within the fintech and funds house and is famend for her potential to construct long-standing and highly effective partnerships,” says Ken Serdons, Mollie CCO. “Fairly than constructing the complete ecosystem ourselves, we consider that good partnerships are the way in which to get rid of friction and construct nice merchandise. We have now already constructed a number of sturdy partnerships, and Michaela is the perfect particular person to develop {our relationships} additional and keep our sturdy accomplice community.”
In current months we’ve launched partnerships with Chargebee and Recharge to supply easy subscriptions and funds and with ecommerce platforms WooCommerce and BigCommerce to supply their clients with an impressive, localised ecommerce expertise – from first contact to checkout. We’ve additionally just lately introduced our partnership with in3 to assist meet the rising demand for BNPL strategies from shoppers and companies and joined forces with Sendcloud to simplify paid returns.
Earlier than becoming a member of Mollie, Michaela was Senior VP for Enterprise Companions at Worldpay from FIS, liable for managing accomplice relationships globally. Earlier than becoming a member of Worldpay in 2019, she was a member of the personal fairness apply at world administration consulting agency Bain & Firm, the place her work targeted on fintech and funds engagements.
“I’ve all the time adopted Mollie with nice admiration, seeing how the corporate has grown from one of many first fintech companies within the Netherlands to a class chief throughout Europe,” says Michaela LeBlanc Weber. “I’m excited to be becoming a member of the corporate at this pivotal time to deal with constructing significant partnerships that simplify funds and assist our clients develop.”
Michaela has an intensive background in monetary companies, having additionally labored as an fairness analysis analyst at Goldman Sachs and holding shopper relationship roles at JP Morgan and Financial institution of America Merrill Lynch.
Michaela is a passionate advocate of girls in tech and a former co-chair of the EMEA chapter of FIS Empower, the FIS girls’s skilled community. She additionally based the Ladies’s Mentoring Community at Worldpay from FIS. At Mollie, Michaela will proceed to advertise gender inclusion and the empowerment of girls in fintech.