Orlando Merone
OSL Pay, General Manager
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolOrlando Merone is a fintech executive with 12 years of experience and over a decade in technology, known for scaling digital finance products across Southern Europe and Italy. He helped launch Revolut’s Southern Europe footprint and Bitpanda’s Italian market, driving hundreds of thousands of retail users and forging B2B banking partnerships that turned Italy into a top market. As Conio’s General Manager he transformed a bitcoin wallet into a multi-crypto broker, delivering strong revenue and EBITDA improvements and striking strategic ties with Visa, Coinbase and Chainalysis. Now leading OSL Pay and the Italy branch of a publicly listed Hong Kong digital-asset platform, he focuses on bridging traditional payments and crypto rails for enterprise adoption. He pairs an Executive MBA with ongoing compliance studies and a hands-on product background—from founding a payments startup to contributing front-end assets for payment icon webfonts on GitHub—bringing both operator grit and developer sensibility. Notably, he combines go-to-market muscle with practical integrations into banking channels, a rare mix that accelerates adoption in regulated markets.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MOOC FinTech and the Transformation in Financial Services, MOOC FinTech and the Transformation in Financial Services at Copenhagen Business SchoolExecutive MBA Amministrazione e gestione aziendale, generale, Executive MBA Amministrazione e gestione aziendale, generale at EMBA TicinensisMaster of Business Administration - MBA Amministrazione e gestione aziendale, generale, Master of Business Administration - MBA Amministrazione e gestione aziendale, generale at Università di PaviaBusiness Short Program Digital Entrepreneurship, Business Short Program Digital Entrepreneurship at InnovAction LabMOOC Innovation Management, MOOC Innovation Management at Erasmus University RotterdamProfessional Short Program Digital Marketing, Professional Short Program Digital Marketing at Istituto Europeo di DesignClass LM-59 – Public, Corporate and Advertising Communication Sciences, Class LM-59 – Public, Corporate and Advertising Communication Sciences at IULM UniversityAdvanced Master’s in Compliance in Financial Institutions Faculty of Banking, Financial and Insurance Sciences, Advanced Master’s in Compliance in Financial Institutions Faculty of Banking, Financial and Insurance Sciences at Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreMOOC FinTech Law and Policy, MOOC FinTech Law and Policy at Duke University
Github Skills (5)
css10
font-style10
fonts10
font-rendering10
html8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
orlandotm/payment-webfont
Apr 2014 - May 2014
An SVG webfont full of main payment system icons
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Orlando primarily focused on implementing and updating the visual elements of the webfont. They added and updated font files, including changes for specific payment logos such as Mastercard, Bitcoin, Sofort, Ripple, Gittip, Flattr, Skrill, and Cartes Bancaires CB. Their contributions involved modifying the `style.css` file with new font definitions and updating the demo files to reflect the changes.
svg
orlandotm/flat-app-store-badge-localized-webfont
Sep 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
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