Gonçalo Caraslindas

Senior Manager

Gonçalo Caraslindas, Senior Research Manager has worked for 12 years as a senior card marketing and product manager for a large Portuguese Bank and Unicre, the largest Portuguese acquirer. Gonçalo has joined PSE Consulting in 2012. He heads up PSE’s Research Team, owns the company’s Knowledge Centre and manages and leads assignments.  He has very strong research and analytical skills as well as practical experience in both card issuing and acquiring.  He has a thorough understanding of each of the EU country payments landscapes, trends, dynamics, players and processors.  He is a team worker, has strong interpersonal skills, establishes excellent relationships with clients and delivers best in class slideware and reports.

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PSE have strong payments experience both regarding product and the market, that is practical as well as good client mgmt skills. It's not a common combination.

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Professionalism during the project delivery and in-depth understanding of the selected topics, alongside with a flexible approach on topics e.g. change of language, timeline or scope of the project

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Really took time to listen and understand our business to provide tailored and relevant consulting, it felt very bespoke not reliant on generic approach

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