Podcasts about souheil badran

Turns out the COO of a Fortune 100 company knows a thing or two about success. Who knew?! Souheil Badran, currently the Chief Operating Officer of Northwestern Mutual, is not only a prime example of a career well-defined and well-traversed, he's also a testament to the American Dream—emigrating from Lebanon—and living with intention, purpose, and conviction. And, it's these traits that manifested themselves into a seminal moment in Souheil's life—the decision to move his family to California, and embrace the risk of joining a startup with a mere 50 employees. It was a decision that ended up working out, providing Souheil with a rock-solid base upon which he would go on to stack career success. -- P.S. Because we had to ask...Souheil is currently reading Coach Wooden by Pat Williams and Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/journeymenpdcst/support

Souheil Badran is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Northwestern Mutual, the largest U.S. provider of life insurance and manager of more than $265 billion in policyholder assets. In our conversation with Souheil, we discuss Souheil's childhood growing up in Lebanon during a civil war, his story of immigrating to America, his   career path from programmer to executive, how to create a culture of transparency, team building, innovation, and how to create balance in your life. Finally, Souheil answers the Final Project Question:"When Souheil's Project is complete, what will he be most proud of? How will he want to be remembered?"After immigrating to the United States for college, Souheil started his career in Milwaukee, WI. Since then, his career has since taken him around the globe and across multiple industries including e-commerce, big data, security, and payment industries. Before Northwestern Mutual, he formerly served as President of Alipay Americas, the world’s largest third-party payment platform. Prior to Alipay, Souheil worked with numerous companies serving as President, CEO, Senior Vice President, and General Manager. Outside of his day job, Souheil also serves on the Research Board of Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin.Be sure to follow, subscribe, and join us in the conversation.Instagram: @projectincompleteTwitter: @projincompletewww.projectincomplete.com"You can't sit back and say 'I wish'""We all come from different backgrounds, but look at what unites us today." 34:00

In this episode, host Matt Cordio (Startup Milwaukee Founder) sits down with Souheil Badran who recently stepped into the role of Chief Innovation Officer at Northwestern Mutual, Milwaukee's largest privately held company. Originally recorded at the 5 LAKES Forum, this is a great conversation on Milwaukee's unique mix of tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Matt and Souheil also discuss the future of Fintech and Northwestern Mututal's digital transformation. Take a listen, then get out and experience Milwaukee!

Souheil Badran, President of Alipay Americas, chats with Forbes' Jeff Kauflin about Ant Financial raising a whopping $14 billion and Alipay's expansion in Asia and abroad.   This conversation was recorded on June 21, 2018.

The rise of Chinese mobile payment systems is the top global mobile payments story of the last few years. Alipay and WeChat Pay serve hundreds of millions of users with payments, loyalty programs, merchant coupons, and more. QR codes are used to initiate many of these interactions especially within the point of sale (POS) domain. When there isn’t a legacy payment infrastructure in place, software is easier, and cheaper, to deploy than the hardware-reliant approaches used for card-based transactions. To serve its millions of accountholders traveling around the world, Alipay is building out its acceptance footprint. In this episode of Payments on Fire, George speaks with payments industry veteran Souheil Badran about his role as president of Alipay Americas and the company’s plans for reaching US merchants in tourist hotspots and beyond.

Chinese payments company Alipay is on a mission to wean US consumers off traditional payment behaviours. Creating an integrated experience is at the center of making that happen, Alipay's president of the Americas, Souheil Badran, explained to Liz Bacelar on the latest episode of TheCurrent Innovators podcast. "So far the whole US market has been so used to credit cards. And when you look at it from a tech perspective all the apps we use are in their own silos. They're not connected at all," says Badran, explaining that the Starbucks app is one of the few examples of an integrated experience based around the consumer's lifestyle. In order to achieve seamlessness, Badran hopes to see better collaboration with retail in what he calls the Uber experience – when getting from point A to B, the user no longer has to think about the payment aspect of it. This everyday ease of use is already being achieved in China, where Alipay's 520 million users have access to over 60 sub-applications integrated under the payment umbrella, creating a lifestyle ecosystem within the digital wallet that includes the ability to do things like pay peers and order a taxi. But going beyond payments to create a larger sense of loyalty in this way in the US, means educating the consumers out of their comfort zone of just payments, Badran adds. "[Starting with the consumer], what are they looking for? What would make you go from just using your credit card, and what would attract you back to the app on a regular basis?" Badran wants to see Alipay reach the same level of interaction in the US, as it has achieved in Asia. Current users check their digital wallets 15-20 times a day, for instance. He hopes US consumers can get to that point, in the same way they already do with their social media channels. This would include creating experience-led features and promotions based on purchase history and other aggregated data, he notes. Chinese Alipay consumers are also a big market for US retailers, which Badran has been working hard to evangelize on their value. "Back in 2013 when you talked about China in general, people understood the size, but couldn't quite grasp the value of it. I have seen a tremendous shift over the last 12 months and hopefully it will continue to grow." To target these users, Alipay is working with retailers in the US and Europe to ensure payment capabilities and promotions that intensify around peak travel seasons, such as Chinese New Year. For millennial consumers, Alipay helps quickly build user credibility by leveraging data from previous purchases. This means a merchant that accepts the payment service can have visibility of the user's track record, says Badran. He uses the example of purchasing at a luxury store, where Alipay can potentially extend the shopper's credit on the fly – unlike a static credit card limit – depending on data such as previous repayments. At present, over 150,000 merchants in North America accept Alipay as a form of payment. The future looks bright for the mammoth Asian company as it taps into the digital need for always-on convenience, as well as a demand for platforms that enable personalization and experience.

In this episode of our series on financial technology, we sat down with Souheil Badran, president of Alipay North America. Alipay is the payments spinoff of China’s ecommerce giant Alibaba and is now part of Ant Financial, the largest fintech company in the world. Some of the key takeaways from our conversation with Souheil include: China’s mobile payment platforms have become “lifestyle apps”. Chinese consumers use their phones to make payments for everything from taxis and movie tickets to insurance and mutual funds. Every year, Chinese tourists take 130 million trips outside of China. Chinese mobile payment firms are expanding internationally in order to service these customers when they are travelling abroad.  The rapid growth of mobile payments in China was driven by the lack of payments infrastructure for credit and debit cards. Chinese fintech companies offered merchants a cheaper solution through the use of QR codes. Data from payments activity has allowed Chinese fintech companies to create their own credit scores for users and make small loans to them. The same types of fintech services are available in both China and the U.S., but the Chinese market is different because these services are all available on a single “platform” rather than distributed across multiple different apps. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco or of the Federal Reserve System.