About this episode
This week, we meet up with Ohad Maimon, CEO and founder of Hyp - a leading payment company in Israel, processing around 1 in 3 of all merchant transactions in the country.
We discuss the Israeli market, how Hyp was born out of the merger of 4 leading payment companies and spun off from its parent company Max which itself is a spin off from Bank Leumi one of Israeli’s largest banks.
Ohad also shares his perspective and approach to managing innovation from proactively partnering with start-ups, conducting rapid market experiments, and scaling up the most promising ideas and then how to successfully absorbing them into the core business.
A great insight into payment innovation management in market that is synonymous with tech led innovation.
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Episode Links
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ohadmaimon/
Website: https://hyp.co.il
Guest Bio
Ohad Maimon is the CEO and founder of Hyp, an Israeli merchant payment platform, and a “corporate entrepreneur” with special expertise in all areas of banking & digital payments.
Before this current position, Ohad was an executive member at Max (Israeli second largest Issuer & Acquirer, formerly known as Leumi card) where he led the Strategy & Business Development division.
Ohad has led the acquisition of 4 different companies to support the growth of Max, oversaw the launch of innovative successful Insurance and Savings products at Max, and the building of a data-driven Insurance Agency.
Ohad has a LL.B & LL.M in Law from Tel Aviv University, serves as an advisory board member in several startup companies and teaches an academic course for “Entrepreneurship & Strategy”.
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Martin Koderisch is a Former Principal in the London office. He has 20 years of experience as adviser and operator within financial technology industry with a focus on payments. He specialises in accelerating digital transformation of client businesses through industry expertise, data analytics, and fintech enablement. His approach seeks to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with hands-on delivery of value creation initiatives to achieve growth, control or operational efficiency outcomes. He previously held senior leadership roles within industry at Mastercard, Citibank and start up Luup Payments covering digital product innovation, operations, and commercial partnership development. He hosted and produced EDC's popular podcast ‘Leaders in Payments and Fintech’ podcast available on major podcast platforms.
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