Curriculum Vitae

Matteo Polleschi

Entrepreneurial, delivery-driven product leader with an MBA and engineering background. Experienced across payments, travel, retail, and platform modernization with a strong end-to-end ownership mindset.

Via San Venerio, 43 · La Spezia, Italy

+39 348 2849140 · matteo.polleschi@gmail.com

Job Experience 15+ years

Senior Product Manager · NomuPay (EU/APAC, Remote)

2+ years · Payments

  • Designed a multi-country, multi-gateway PSP architecture across EU and APAC.
  • Bootstrapped reconciliation, billing, and settlement back-office systems in 6 months.
  • Aligned acquired company components into a unified omnichannel platform.

Program / Solution Manager · Carrefour / Market Pay (France & Italy)

1.5+ years · Payments, Retail

  • Created end-to-end ecommerce and card-present offerings for two countries.
  • Led provider selection, contracting, and delivery for a major payments spinoff.
  • Managed local handover and production launch for a high-volume flow.

Senior Solutions Consultant · Branchspace (Germany & Switzerland)

1 year · Travel, Payments

  • Defined payment architecture for airline ecommerce platform modernization.
  • Drove end-to-end implementation with international stakeholders.
  • Delivered requirements to production for new payment methods and settlement flows.

Chief Product Officer · Feries SRL (Italy)

0.5+ years · Travel Marketplace

  • 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 (Belgium & Italy)

4 years · Payments, Financial Services

  • Built orchestration components opening group access to key travel platforms.
  • Scaled omnichannel financial products and drove double-digit revenue growth.
  • Expanded acquiring, card-present features, and settlement capabilities.

Product Manager · Amadeus (France)

3.5 years · Travel Tech, Electronic Payments

  • Created Amadeus DCC product and integrated Ingenico/Ogone into Payment Hub.
  • Led presales, PSP integrations, and multi-PSP back-office evolution.

Junior Consultant (SW project & product management) · Case New Holland (Italy)

1 year · Agriculture Machinery

  • Defined requirements and selected providers for a new planning system.

Freelance Consultant · Education & IT Consulting

2 years · Part-time

  • Built education software portfolio (desktop, web, mobile) from scratch.
  • Led ERP-based digital transformation for sales and operational processes.

Software Engineer · Thales Alenia Space (Italy)

1 year · Aerospace

  • Contributed to aerospace systems engineering and software development.
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 8,000+ yearly active users.
Languages
  • Italian · Mother tongue
  • English · Fluent (8+ years in international environments)
  • French · Fluent (7 years living in France/Belgium)
Computer Skills
  • Scripting & coding (Python), API integrations, data processing.
  • Docker and cloud-native tooling enthusiast.