Russell West
Head Of Commercial at obconnect
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorRussell West is a seasoned Head of Commercial with 13 years' experience specialising in Open Banking and Confirmation of Payee, currently leading commercial strategy at obconnect. He has repeatedly helped banks, fintechs and corporates deploy FAPI-compliant TPP services, ASPSP integrations and CoP solutions as scalable SaaS offerings. Russell blends product, partnerships and go-to-market expertise—having led product launches, marketplace integrations and international partnerships across multiple fintech startups and scaleups. His background spans hands-on product ownership to founding a payments consultancy, giving him both strategic vision and pragmatic delivery instincts. Based in Stony Stratford, he is known for translating regulatory requirements into commercial opportunities and for advising founders on avoiding costly platform mistakes. Notably, he has built repeatable, pre-configured open-banking solutions that accelerate compliance and time-to-market for clients.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
vanilla-forums8
php8
forum8
phpbb8
composer8
flarum8
pandas6
laravel6
python6
mysql6
metadata2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
russellwwest/phpvms
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
virtual airline management
Contributions:83 pushes, 7 branches in 4 months
laravelphpairlinevirtual-airline
russellwwest/bdva
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:27 PRs, 33 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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