Vinay Nilakantan
Head of Product - Fintech | Platforms | SaaS
- Role
- Head of Product - North America at Wise
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Vinay Nilakantan
Vinay Nilakantan is a product management leader with over 15 years of experience in analyzing, creating, and executing market-driven product roadmaps that support short-term revenue goals and long-term market potential. An MBA graduate from the Johnson Business School at Cornell University, Vinay is currently leading Adyen\'s financial technology platform product, while growing and leading teams across multiple geographies. Prior to this, Vinay served in multiple product management leadership roles with companies like AffiniPay - a leader in payments for over SMBs, FATHOM - an IoT and Geospatial centric Analytics Cloud platform, 360training.com - an online B2C eCommerce marketplace that served digital learning to over half a million users per month, at Ellucian, the world\'s largest higher education enterprise software company focused towards building Cloud solutions within the CRM space and as the VP of Product Management at Meridian Knowledge Solutions, an award winning Learning Technology platform as a member of the executive team. Vinay\'s focus towards Fintech, Cloud Technology, Learning Technology, HCM and CRM Cloud solutions for the consumer and enterprise has successfully enabled companies to enter new market segments while significantly growing both top line and bottom line performance. Apart from successful consumer and enterprise software product launches, Vinay specializes in building and growing successful product management teams, especially within a start up environment. It’s this approach that has enabled him to successfully bring to market multiple new products while future-proofing business investment across multiple industries.Specialties: Enterprise / Consumer Product Management, B2B, B2C - Product Direction, Cloud Technologies, Product marketing, positioning and pricing strategy, Product evangelism, Project Management / Leadership, C-Level Customer Relationship Management, Software Portfolio Management - Financial and P&L Oversight, Due diligence and M&A experience.
Experience
Head of Product - North America
Jul 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Building Wise in North America. Product leadership over Growth, Pay-ins and Payouts, KYC / KYB, Risk and Fraud, Money Movement and our Multi Currency Account for Consumers and Small Businesses. Accountable for scaling and growing our entire book of business within the US and Canadian markets.
Education
Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2012 — 2013
Madras Christian College
Bachelor of Arts, Economics
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