Brandon Wan

Helping Omni-channel Companies and Professional Firms Grow | Embedded Payments, Agentic Commerce, Customer Acquisitions | Builder and Sailor

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Owning.Bizex-Visaex-SharpML

Payments is one of those things that looks simple from the outside and gets complicated fast once you're inside it. Spent 20 years building payments and commerce products at some of the most recognized names in the industry.

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Launched onboarding flows that doubled activation. Built BNPL products that unlocked nine-figure revenue opportunities. Scaled platforms processing hundreds of billions in volume. Co-founded and bootstrapped two companies along the way. Now running Tradewind, a payments advisory firm helping growth-stage and omnichannel companies get more out of their payment infrastructure. The work spans payments performance, PSP strategy, embedded payment solutions, international expansion, and Agentic Commerce readiness, which is the part nobody is talking about yet but everyone will be soon. The through line across all of it: product thinking, GTM instincts, and a bias toward actually shipping things. Outside of work, find me on the water. Sailor, lifelong learner, occasional speaker, and always up for a good conversation about where payments and commerce are heading. Reach out at com, or book time directly: com/brandonwan/30min

Career TimelineNOW → PAST

GTM Index

  1. OWNING.BIZJOB
    1. Founder and CEO
      7M
  2. TRADEWINDJOB
    1. Founder and Principal
      7M
  3. STORABLEJOB
    1. Product - Payments, Global…
      1Y 7M
  4. BITBOUNDAIREJOB
    1. Growth, Partnership, and G…
      1Y 7M
  5. WOOJOB
    1. Product Dir - Payments and…
      1Y 10M
  6. VISAJOB
    1. Product Dir - Embedded Pay…
      1Y 11M
  7. PRODUCT SCHOOLJOB
    1. Course Instructor and Mentor
      6M
  8. SHARPMLJOB
    1. Co-Founder, COO - ML/AI So…
      1Y 11M
  9. AFFIRMJOB
    1. Senior Product Mgr - Merch…
      1Y 11M
  10. PAYPALJOB
    1. Senior Product Mgr - Globa…
      2Y 11M

Time in market 8Y 7MOpen 4Closed 6Stints 10

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  1. Job: Owning.Biz — Founder and CEO · 2026 – present
  2. Job: Tradewind — Founder and Principal · 2026 – present
  3. Job: Visa — Product Director - Embedded Payments, Go-to-market (GTM) · 2021 – 2022
  4. Job: SharpML — Co-Founder, COO - ML/AI Solution Development · 2020 – 2021
  5. Job: Storable — Product - Payments, Global Expansion and GTM · 2025 – present
  6. Job: Affirm — Senior Product Manager - Merchant Services and Growth · 2020 – 2021
  7. Job: PayPal — Senior Product Manager - Global Payments Platform · 2018 – 2020
  8. Job: Product School — Course Instructor and Mentor · 2022-02 – 2022-08
  9. Job: Bitboundaire — Growth, Partnership, and GTM Advisor · 2025 – present
  10. Job: Woo — Product Director - Payments and Growth · 2022 – 2023-11

Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyProduct Lifecycle ManagementE-paymentsPaymentsProduct Road MappingGo-to-Market StrategyFeature PrioritizationCustomer Journey MappingMarketing StrategyScrumOnline MarketplaceProduct LaunchTest AutomationMobile CommerceCross-functional Team LeadershipApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Project ManagementEntrepreneurshipPoint of Sale (POS) Systems

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