Pablo Schor

Product Manager for the Banking Software Industry

Greater Boston Area

Current
Past
  • Senior Product Manager at Fundtech Corp
  • Product Manager, e-Business strategy consultant at Self-Employed
  • Product Manager, Co-Founder partner at SOFIANA
Education
  • Boston University
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
Connections
161 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Pablo Schor’s Summary

I’m a Product Manager in the banking software industry. I have spent most of my career at the vendor side, helping commercial banks envision, build and roll out technology-based financial services. I have focused on innovation – devising, creating and promoting new, cutting-edge products. I'm currently specializing in business and corporate banking, specifically Financial Supply Chain and Cash/Liquidity Management.

Product Management is gratifyingly addictive: you own the product and tirelessly work to make it grow. I believe the attractiveness lies in the variety of perspectives that need to be understood – and potentially mastered – to effectively map business strategies into functional software products. The better your comprehension of the world surrounding the product, the higher the chance of coming up with innovative and sophisticated ideas, and the higher the likelihood of pulling off a successful execution.

Banks are no longer competing among themselves – they’re also facing direct competition from new technology-driven entrants in consumer, business and corporate. Therefore, banks are forced to rethink traditional services and adjust the way they’ve conducted business for decades while preserving a concrete revenue stream. Today, product managers in the banking software industry have a key role: to assist banks in the innovation process, taking advantage of market shifts and helping banks reposition and differentiate.

Pablo Schor’s Specialties:

- Product Strategy & Design, Industry Analysis.
- Product Positioning & Pricing
- Retail, Commercial and Corporate Banking.
- Financial Supply Chain, Cash/Liquidity Management, e-Invoicing/EIPP, SWIFTNet TSU.
- Functional requirements management and documentation, test and use cases.
- Fluent communication with Business and Technology sides.
- Business Intelligence
- Software startups and Entrepreneurship.
- Internet/B2B business models and strategy.


Pablo Schor’s Experience

  • Product Manager

    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

    (Government Agency; Banking industry)

    March 2009Present (9 months)

    Treasury and Financial Services Group

  • Senior Product Manager

    Fundtech Corp

    (Public Company; FNDT; Computer Software industry)

    July 2006January 2009 (2 years 7 months)

    - Financial Supply Chain banking application, market/business analysis, product positioning and design.
    - Investment Management, trade matching and settlement software product design.

  • Product Manager, e-Business strategy consultant

    Self-Employed

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20022004 (2 years )

    Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    B2B platforms, Internet, Intranet, ASP business models. Worked with BBVA and ADP, defined e-Business strategies, outlined biz requirements to web-enable services and internal processes.

  • Product Manager, Co-Founder partner

    SOFIANA

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20002001 (1 year )

    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Internet Banking company; software products for consumer, corporate & mobile e-Banking.

    At Sofiana, we pioneered in e-Banking in 2000, creating innovative and sophisticated software products. Nevertheless, the company didn't work: the .com bubble burst and Internet stopped being fashionable and sellable. On top of that, in 2001, Argentina entered into an enormous economic crisis. Banks, extremely sensitive to economic uncertainty, temporarily froze all investments including software projects (not to mention innovative Internet products).
    Blame falls on us as well, as our products were too ahead of market. Sofiana lasted one year.

  • Co-Founder partner, CIO

    Intersys

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    19942000 (6 years )

    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Corporate banking software company; Trade Finance and Foreign Exchange software products

    Intersys started up as a garage company with just two people. We spent more than a year creating a Trade Finance product (working incessantly at nights and weekends, while keeping our day jobs), then managed to close a first deal with a major bank while struggling to stay afloat. In the end, we had extreme success selling the product to several banks. Intersys had an average annual growth of 88% in its first six years.

  • Software Engineer

    Citibank Argentina

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

    19921994 (2 years )

    Retail banking, core applications

  • Software Developer

    GMA Consulting

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    19871992 (5 years )

    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Banking software consulting, retail banking


Pablo Schor’s Education

  • Boston University

    MBA , Concentration in Information Technology , 20042006

  • Universidad de Buenos Aires

    BS , Information Systems , 19901996


Additional Information

Pablo Schor’s Websites:

Pablo Schor’s Interests:

Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, e-Banking, Bank-to-Corporate integration, Cash Management, Supply Chain Finance, e-Banking biz models. Software product strategy, software product positioning, innovation, business modeling, entrepreneurship, startups. Software processes, software architecture, automated testing, business and systems analysis, requirements/use cases management, UML, SOA/Web Services, Java/J2EE, open source.

Pablo Schor’s Groups:

Boston University

  •    Boston University School of Management Alumni
  •    Business Intelligence
  •    Business Intelligence Group
  •    DataShaping Advanced Analytics
  •    Linked.ar
  •    Business Intelligence Professionals
  •    Banking and Finance Technologies
  •    Citi Network
  •    Data Warehouse Architects
  •    TDWI's Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Discussion Group
  •    BankNet
  •    Business Intelligence & Analytics Group
  •    SWIFT Connectivity Network
  •    Payment Systems Network
  •    Financial Risk Management Network
  •    Global Trade Network
  •    Banking Connects
  •    Business Analytics
  •    Digital Banking Innovation
  •    Open Source Business Intelligence
  •    American Bankers Association (ABA)
  •    Small Business Banking Professionals
  •    BarCampBank
  •    Retail Banking Network
  •    UBA Universidad de Buenos Aires Alumni
  •    Quant Finance
  •    Pentaho - open source business intelligence
  •    Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Architects
  •    Online Banking Professionals
  •    ALM - Banking Business
  •    Data Mining Technology
  •    Risk Analytics
  •    e-Invoicing
  •    Supply Chain Finance
  •    Basel II Implementation Group
  •    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  •    Core Banking Systems
  •    Business Intelligence Latin America
  •    Financial Analysts & Modelers
  •    Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, Actuary / Actuarial and Statistics Group
  •    Global Bankers Society
  •    Banking Business Intelligence
  •    Bank Treasury and Financial Risk Management
  •    Smarter Financial Services
  •    Bank Director magazine
  •    BI Open Source

Pablo Schor’s Contact Settings

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  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
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