Daniel Thomason, a fintech product expert and leads product for Google Wallet Payments joins Enterprise Radio. Daniel has worked in four countries on three continents in a variety of roles, from central bank economist, to escape room founder, to product manager.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Daniel Thomason discuss the following:



* You are a product manager and an economist. You don’t see that every day in combined expertise. Can you please tell us how those two professions work hand-in-hand to help each other in your day-to-day work?

* You made a big career pivot after leaving the central bank, I believe – you founded an escape room back in Australia! Can you tell us more about how that entrepreneurial experience has shaped your approach to product management in the tech world?

* Your primary focus is in the electronic payments space.  It has changed quite a bit, to say the least, over the past few years.  Can you discuss where you see it headed and why?

* What do you see the impact of AI on the electronic payments space and how will it impact the “everyday” person?  The corporate conglomerate?

* Technology is changing so quickly around us.  Could you tell us about how you think about technological change and how it will impact the world?



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Daniel is a fintech product expert, with experience in regulation, growth, and building both zero-to-one products and at scale. A creative, analytical leader with a strong ownership mindset, he is passionate about solving hard problems that affect core parts of people’s day-to-day experience. That’s why he loves working on payments innovation!

Daniel works at Google, where he leads product for Google Wallet Payments. The team is focused on making it easy and safe for people all over the world to make payments using their Android phone or watch. The team’s ambitious goal is to dramatically reduce payments fraud, eliminate the need to produce plastic credit cards, and make life more convenient for users by allowing them to leave their physical wallets at home.

Before Daniel became a product manager, he founded an escape room company in Australia: Next Level Escape. The company is one of the most successful escape rooms in Sydney to this day. Daniel introduced innovations such as secondary and tertiary objectives (for groups so good they would otherwise have escaped too quickly!) and a branching puzzle structure so that larger groups could still have all the players engaged at all times. The company became profitable after just four months of operation, and has won multiple awards.

Daniel currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and family. He is an active community member, having joined the Cole Valley Improvement Association board and participating in the Cole Valley monthly cleanup. In his free time, Daniel can be found cooking and baking chocolate chip cookies, doing yoga, or playing board games.

Website: https://www.dthomason.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-thomason



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