Anka Oprea

• Senior business professional with over 15 years of international experience working for companies with contrasting business styles ranging from an entrepreneurial culture to blue-chip organizations in EMEA, Americas and Asia.
• Proven experience in anticipating market momentum ahead of emerging demand by translating macro-shifts and big data into real top-line impact products.
• A driving force behind building and delivering product platforms, global operational and digital transformation programs with complex systems at scale across a wide spectrum of products using both packaged and in-house built technology platforms. 
• Highly commended influencing and negotiating skills developed by working directly with the Board and by managing relationships with suppliers and large clients.

• Empathetic leader in accelerated delivery of consumer focused Technology, innovation and multichannel digital transformation with complex systems at scale across a wide spectrum of products using both packaged and in-house built technology platforms. 
• Strategic leadership in developing and delivering customer qualified visions for the short, medium and long-term. Market, Customer and Partner centricity balanced by Regulatory, Compliance, Risk, Fraud Prevention and Legal acumen. 
• Strong ability in Agile, Prototyping/MVPs, DevSecOps of service development from business cases through to Go-to-Market in both Consumer/B2B environments. Expertise in PSD2 regulations, FinTechs, Tokenization, Authorisation value, Authentication, Biometrics.
• Proven experience with Blockchain, Machine Learning and AI powered real time orchestration and decisioning with multiple data feeds - blending Fraud and Authentication data to verify and correlate Digital Identity to create completely secure and increasingly frictionless customer journeys.
• Experienced in motivating cross-functional alignment, commitment and building cross-ecosystem collaboration to drive customer value, embedded within the Technical Team of BA’s, Product Managers, Developers, Dev Ops, User Research, QA and Architects.

April 2021

• Certificate in Disruptive Strategy and Innovation Harvard Business School, Boston (USA)

• Bachelor of Science Schiller International University, London (GB)
• Dual major in International Business Administration and Financial Management.