About Us
Anna Monteiro
Anna has over 20 years of experience in the areas of strategy, product development, program management, and global market implementations across FinTech, RegTech, EdTech including B2B and B2C.
Before starting 360 Impact Consulting, she was the Sr Director of Global Regulatory Products and Editorial Operations for Wolters Kluwer Financial Services responsible for setting strategy and executing global initiatives. She has held similar senior roles at Citigroup and Thomson Reuters.
She has provided expert commentary to industry publications, including Securities Industry News and Dow Jones Newswires and is frequently featured in Finextra.
Antonio Monteiro
Toni has over 25 years of global technology and information management experience. He has broad experience in several verticals - Business Information, B2B, B2C, FinTech, EdTech, and SAAS among others.
Before starting 360 Impact Consulting, he was Chief Information Officer for ISI Emerging Markets for 12 years, Director of Technology at RR Donnelley Financial, and spent 15 years at Thomson Reuters in various capacities, working in South Africa, Latin America, Europe, North America, and the Caribbean.
As a partner at 360 Impact Consultant, he has done several fractional and interim CTO assignments across industry verticals. In addition, Toni is an Entrepreneur in Residence for Connecticut Innovations providing techincal expertise for its portfolio companies.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Services
Senior Management - extensive experience dealing with C-suite executives, board of directors, and investors, understanding the business, and presenting IT solutions with a strong focus on improving efficiency and profitability.
M&A and Carve-outs - global experience providing due diligence/audits of technology and operations as part of buying and selling companies, divisions, and products.
Budgeting and Planning - provide budget and planning for technology and development projects.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - extensive expertise in implementing AWS solutions including system and data security, CD/CI, infrastructure, and GenAI.
Product, Program, and Project Management - detailed knowledge of taking business and product priorities and aligning them to technology projects.
Technology and Team Building - on and off-shore development resources that cover development, DevOps, and architecture. This provides our clients with an "on-demand" technology team.
Business Strategy
Investing in strategic planning and being comfortable with how to expand your presence is critical to the success of any business. 360 Impact can provide commercial and technological strategies supported by practical go-to-market plans to grow your business locally and globally.
Business - It’s not simple to have a product and sell it to the market. A business strategy needs to encompass not only the vision for your product or service but also what will influence whether that product or service will succeed. Your business strategy needs to survive beyond v 1.0. So, whether you're just starting out or trying to find your groove, 360 Impact can work with you to develop a business strategy that lasts longer than your vision.
Market - Not all markets are created equal, and being successful in one doesn’t mean success in another. Markets, like people, need to be understood and respected for their differences because it may be those subtle differences that determine whether your product is a market success or a market failure.
Having a comprehensive understanding of your target market and the buyer in that market is an absolute prerequisite for success. 360 Impact has global market implementation expertise across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and the European Union in financial services, healthcare, and professional education industries.
Product - One size does not fit all - (no matter how hard you try). All too often a product or service is developed based on a buyer with a need. Although all buyers might share the same need, they probably have different ‘pain points’ and therefore, need the product to behave differently.
Developing products that can adapt to different workflows and can easily extend features and functionality to address ‘pain points’ is an absolute necessity when developing a product or service that needs to function in different markets and evolve with your organization's business strategy. At 360 Impact, our expertise has helped organizations develop the products that sustain today’s business and accelerate tomorrow’s growth.
Sample Assignments
- Redesigning, rolling out, and managing the technology for the leading business information provider for distressed and bankrupt companies.
- Led the design, development, and rollout of a leading database for solar systems throughout the US.
- Providing strategic advice for product and technology roadmap to the CEO of a rapidly growing FinTech SaaS company.
- Formulated and managed RFP process, and provided strategic leadership for development for an online gold trading platform based in the Middle East.
- Business strategy, product expansion, and market implementation for FinTech, RegTech and EdTech solutions providers.