People. Shared direction.
Led commercial teams of more than 20 through middle managers at iZettle / PayPal, Quickorder and ViaBill.
A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION FOR STRIPE
Payments.
People.
Growth.
A decade in payments.
Teams built from the ground up.
Ready for the next chapter.
ADAM TAREEN COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE AMBITION
Deep in payments.
Driven by people.
I build commercial teams and help payment businesses grow. From merchant acquisition at iZettle / PayPal to global PSP partnerships at Vipps MobilePay, my work connects people, technology and commercial opportunity.
iZettle / PayPalQuickorderVipps MobilePayViaBill
SELECTED IMPACT
Experience.
With outcomes.
Different businesses. Different sales cycles.
A consistent focus on commercial progress.
Revenue growth.
Led sales, partnerships and marketing, scaling the sales team during a period of 2.8× revenue growth.
Danish merchants.
Grew the merchant base from double digits to more than 4,000 during my tenure.
A new payment chapter.
Converted over 90% of the large partner account portfolio to account-to-account payment rails.
HOW I LEAD
Build the team.
Develop the people.
Move the business.
Build from the ground up.
Recruiting first-time salespeople and experienced hires. Creating the team, onboarding it and establishing how it works.
Stay close to the sale.
Experience across short merchant sales cycles, mid-length software sales and longer processes targeting e-commerce businesses with €100m+ annual revenue.
Lead through others.
Managing teams through middle managers, with responsibility spanning coaching, development and day-to-day performance.
THE CAREER STORY
A decade.
Many sides of payments.
Explore the roles that shaped my commercial perspective.
THE NEXT CHAPTER · STRIPE ENTERPRISE DACH
Payments is where
I do my best work.
Stripe brings together the industry I know deeply and the global commercial environment that motivates me.
Industry depth.
Payment acceptance, wallets, account-to-account payments and BNPL. A commercial perspective shaped by merchants, software businesses and global PSPs.
A real connection.
At Vipps MobilePay, I was part of the team negotiating commercial terms with Stripe. That experience adds a direct professional context to my interest.
International perspective.
Alongside my Nordic experience, I supported iZettle’s expansion in France and joined customer meetings with the Berlin team.
LANGUAGES English · fluent / Danish · native / German · basic
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
Commercial mind.
Creative instinct.
Piano. Writing books. Publishing music.
Cycling, and travelling for food.
A Copenhagen native with curiosity beyond the day job.
MSc Economics & International BusinessCopenhagen Business School · 2010–2013
LET’S START A CONVERSATION
The next chapter
starts with a hello.
Let’s talk ↗Connect on LinkedIn ↗adamtareen@gmail.com