Investor-operator · Paris · Product
Ismael Ghozael
Product executive, platforms and commerce
Ismael is a product and platform executive with more than 20 years across commerce, fintech and connected experiences. He started as a mobile OS engineer, then spent over a decade at PayPal, where he led the payments platform and the international expansion of PayPal Complete Payments, SMB and partner experiences.
He is now VP Products & Platforms at the world's largest sports retailer, where he leads a 400-person organisation through a platform and AI transformation. He has operated, invested and advised funds since his time with PayPal Ventures.
$1.3T
payment volume on the platform he led
35M
merchants on that platform
+$100M a year
product-led incremental margin: innovation at scale
MBA
UC Berkeley
Investor-operator · London · Commercial, P&L and turnarounds
Mazen Wazni
Builds, fixes and scales commercial businesses
Mazen Wazni builds, fixes and scales commercial businesses, with more than 20 years running P&Ls and teams in Europe and Africa. Most recently he was General Manager of Amazon Business Retail Europe, a multi-billion B2B ecommerce platform serving businesses from SMBs to large enterprises. Over 12 years at Amazon he also ran European Consumer Electronics P&Ls, managing category and supplier economics and turning around underperforming categories, and led 2,000 people in one of Amazon's largest UK fulfilment centres.
Before Amazon he built and ran consumer goods businesses across Africa, growing one from zero to $100M with 800 people. An engineer by training, he holds an IMD MBA.
15 years
running P&Ls in Europe and Africa
$5B+
combined revenue of the businesses he has run, from small to large
$0 to $100M
a consumer goods business he grew in Africa, with 800 people
2,000
people he led in one of Amazon's largest UK fulfilment centres
Together
Both started as engineers. Both ran global businesses. Both work from Paris and London.
Ismael brings the product and technology view
- Payments and fintech
- Platforms and APIs
- Omnichannel retail
- Running organisations at scale
Mazen brings the commercial and operating view
- P&L ownership
- B2B platforms
- Category and supplier economics
- Fulfilment operations
- Turnarounds and growth
We go deepest in fintech, B2C and B2B commerce, retail and consumer brands.
Advisors to
PayPal Ventures
Quadrille Capital
TomCat Ventures
The Good Ones