Payment Strategy & Architecture
Define scalable payment architecture aligned with business growth.
Product Leadership Profile
Matteo Polleschi
Entrepreneurial and delivery-driven product leader with an MBA and engineering background. End-to-end ownership across payments, travel, retail, and platform modernization.
Services
How I can support your payments and product organisation
Flow Optimisation
Optimise checkout and payment journeys to improve conversion quality.
Provider Rationalisation
Simplify provider setups and configurations across channels and markets.
Settlement & Reconciliation Design
Design reliable settlement and reconciliation operating models.
Experience Highlights
Key impact across leadership roles and product domains
Senior Product Manager · NomuPay
- Designed a multi-country, multi-gateway PSP architecture across regions.
- Bootstrapped reconciliation, billing, and settlement back-office systems in months.
- Aligned acquired company components into a unified omnichannel platform.
Program / Solution Manager · Carrefour / Market Pay
- Created end-to-end ecommerce and card-present offerings across markets.
- Led provider selection, contracting, and delivery for a major payments spinoff.
- Managed handover and production launch for high-volume transaction flows.
Senior Solutions Consultant · Branchspace
- Defined payment architecture for airline ecommerce platform modernization.
- Drove implementation with international stakeholders from design to rollout.
- Delivered requirements to production for new payment methods and settlement flows.
Chief Product Officer · Feries SRL
- Owned the product portfolio for a vacation rental marketplace and booking engine.
- Managed and mentored a team of junior product owners.
Product Manager · Ingenico ePayments
- Built orchestration components opening group access to key travel platforms.
- Scaled omnichannel financial products and drove strong revenue growth.
- Expanded acquiring, card-present features, and settlement capabilities.
Product Manager · Amadeus
- Created Amadeus DCC product and integrated Ingenico/Ogone into Payment Hub.
- Led presales, PSP integrations, and multi-PSP back-office evolution.
Payment Architect · British Airways
- Redesigned the airline payment platform with an initial focus on tokenisation.
- Expanded the redesign to cover settlement and reconciliation flows.
Payment Manager · Outfittery
- Optimised payment flows to improve conversion and reduce friction.
- Rationalised payment configurations across providers and methods.
- Supported chargeback management and related operational processes.
Education
- Master of Business Administration (MBA), College des Ingenieurs
- Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
- Bachelor Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
- Visiting student researcher, University of California at Berkeley
Other Projects
- CTO for a FoodTech company, designing architecture and running full-tech operations.
- Adaptive learning platform for corporate training with a large active user base.
Languages
- Italian · Mother tongue
- English · Fluent in international environments
- French · Fluent in professional and daily settings
Technical Skills
- Scripting & coding (Python), API integrations, data processing
- Docker and cloud-native tooling enthusiast