#50 Buy Now Pay Later, a deep dive with Dion Appel, CEO of OpenPay ANZ.

Welcome to The Fintech Founder Journey, the podcast that explores FinTech and the founders that power it. I’m your host Mike Scott, and I'm also the Co-Founder and CEO of Nona Digital.In this podcast we look at how to build better FinTech products, better FinTech businesses and how to work on yourself to be more successful in all that you do.In today's show I'm joined by Dion Appel, CEO of OpenPay and we’ll be talking about the Buy Now Pay Later craze as well as Dion's journey from agency life to becoming the CEO of OpenPay.Dion Appel who is an impressive entrepreneur and operator. His career started in the agency world where he has co-founded and exited multiple businesses successfully.In 2015 he became the managing director of the Melbourne office DDB, a full service advertising agency. In 2018, he joined OpenPay as Chief Revenue Officer and in July of this year he was appointed as CEO of Australia & New Zealand which is his current focus.My initial impression of Dion was that he is a gun operator and also just a really open and nice guy.__________________________________This Podcast is sponsored by Nona Digital.We are an expert firm that consults on, designs and develops FinTech software and we do it with a level of care and excellence that is rare and difficult to match.Working with us you get access to a deeply skilled and experienced FinTech design and development team with a particularly deep experience level in blockchain. You get the benefit of a team that is big enough for no key person dependencies to exist but small enough so that you are always close to the principals. And you get the benefit of our reusable component library which means we are able to launch your FinTech product sooner than anyone else could at a comparable standard.To get in touch with one of our principals to see how we can help your FinTech project to accelerate and succeed, head over to www.nona.digital to book a consultation directly.__________________________________Thanks for listening to the show. I’ll be back next week with another episode to explore The FinTech Founder Journey.__________________________________Connect with Dion or OpenPay.Connect with Mike or Nona. Follow Nona Digital: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube