which , Stephen continues , it soon did . “ I started with the company in May of 2017 . We released our first product in the fall of 2017 and we went live with our first client in March of 2018 . We just cut through the bureaucracy and deliver what the client actually needs .” Maintaining a spirit of innovation among its staff is also highly important at Saphyre , which it achieves through genuine employee empowerment and a dual-layered workforce dynamic : one team consisting of product managers , industry experts and user experience designers , and a second team of coders , to whom the middle and backoffice operations are taught in order to establish the appropriate context as they work . “ What that does is structure things so that the technology team is uninterrupted , and they know what we give them is solid because we ’ ve already validated it several times with our innovation team ,” Gabino explains . “ Working at some other financial institutions three and a half years ago , you would never have seen those two things combined together .”

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EXECUTIVE PROFILE :

Industry : Financial Services

Gabino is an experienced and successful business-technology leader with 20 years of expertise gained from executive roles at some of the world ’ s most prestigious organisations , including McKinsey , AT & T and JP Morgan Chase . “ I ’ ve always built technology products from scratch ; that ’ s always been kind of my thing .” Holding a BSc in Business Management Information Systems from Seton Hall University ( 1993 to 1998 ) and an MBA in Global Management from the University of Phoenix ( 2000 to 2003 ), he is highly knowledgeable on industry trends , industry-leading approaches and the contemporary needs of clients . fintechmagazine . com