I help leaders grow their business.

Hi! I’m West Stringfellow and I help executives, entrepreneurs, investors and boards innovate.

I am determined to give all business leaders the data, insights, mindset, processes, talent and tools required to build multiple revenue streams in growing sectors and markets while adapting to rapid change.

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years building teams, products, services and platforms

$300

in product development led

100

business leaders accelerated

How west helps you

West Helps Leaders:

- Set company-wide goals that accelerate innovation

- Invest in innovation enough to win while balancing time, risk and optionality
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- Build winning value propositions that differentiate your business, market and technology

- Create defensible and scalable profit sources built on new business models
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- Develop, launch, scale and iterate innovations quickly and effectively
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- Lead, incentivize, motivate your talent to repeatedly innovate
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- Build and maintain the networks required to win long-term

“West has a remarkable ability to see clearly what needs to be done, and a complete lack of fear when it comes to expressing those ideas. His amazing track record speaks for itself, but I'm happy to speak for him too. He's a phenomenal leader and an awesome personality to work with.”

Ian C.

SERVICES

How West Activates Innovation In You and Your Organization

West’s realistic, customer-focused approach to innovation will help you and your team move faster and farther with less risk, more efficiency and greater alignment with the needs of your current and future customers, talent and shareholders.

SPEAKING

West motivates corporate, community, conference, government and student audiences to innovate.

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COACHING

West helps executives and entrepreneurs professionally develop their innovation knowledge and skills.

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ADVISING

West helps companies accelerate their innovation and product management teams, projects and outcomes.

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THE PROCESS

How We Get Stuff Done

West has refined his process for launching new businesses

Develop the mindset required to innovate and achieve your potential.

Deeply understand your customer, competitor, market and available technology so that you can minimize risk while maximizing the chance of success.

Build, manage and lead a team that is capable of continuously innovating at scale.

Leverage innovation tools and best practice to deliver new solutions to your customers.

Awards

Edmund Hillary Fellowship
(EHF)

In 2020 West was selected to join the EHF community of 500 “action-oriented people influencing the course of humanity”. Fellows undergo a rigorous application process and were selected from 10K+ applicants.

Minneapolis Real Power 50

In 2016 West was selected as a “Power50” who are “The linchpins in their company. The heart of the operation. The people who make things happen.” Winners were nominated by previous members and vetted for 3 months.

PayPal Employee Awards

in 2012 West received:
-the “Universe” award, EBay’s highest award, from PayPal’s CPO
-the “Meteor Shower” award, eBay’s 2nd highest award, from my team for my leadership of the Point of Sale Program.

iKids Awards

In 2014 the team West led won 1st place in "Best Learning App for Preschoolers " for Rosetta Stone's Lingo Letter Sounds

Webby Awards

In 2014 the team West led was nominated and selected as an Houoree for "Apps, Mobile, and Voice" in "Education and Reference" (Handheld devices) for Rosetta Stone's Lingo Letter Sounds.

PYMNT.s.com Innovator Awards

In 2013, the team West led won:
- Gold for "Most Innovative"
- Silver for "Most Disruptive"
- Bronze for "Best Merchant"
for PayPal's point of sales solution.

Google Australia Brand Zeitgeist

In 2010 the team West led won "Fastest Rising Google searches for Australian Brands" for their SEO work at GraysOnline.

Patents

Secure Loyalty Programs

A system with a decentralized architecture to provide secure loyalty program.

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Social retail platform & system with graphical user interfaces for presenting multiple content types

A social media platform and system provides a graphical user interface for creating social media posts and tagging one or more products.

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Payment system

Disclose embodiments provide systems and methods of processing payment authorisation requests for payment.

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Smart Wallet

A service provider provides one or more "best" total value suggestions for one or more items specified by a user.

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Payment System

Embodiments of the invention provide a method of processing payment authorisation requests for payment transactions.

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Local Affiliate Marketing

Merchants within close proximity to each other are "affiliated" with other by distance. A consumer making a first.

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Systems And Methods For Providing Information To Consumers

A method and a system to provide information to consumers are provided.

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Location Determination And Map Building

The present disclosure involves a method comprising: determining the location of a user inside a facility.

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Account Access At Point Of Sale

Verifying personal identification number (PIN)

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West's Passion

West Built the World's Largest Innovation Resource: HowDo

“Innovators create new jobs and new solutions; two things humanity needs right now.

Unfortunately, too many innovators fail.

To help innovators succeed, I built HowDo.”

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ABOUT

Who is WEST STRINGFELLOW ?

West Stringfellow has over twenty five years of proven experience leading innovation and product management in fast-paced, high-growth companies including Amazon, PayPal, Rosetta Stone, Target, Visa and several startups. West envisioned, built and led the Techstars Retail Startup Accelerator. A Fortune 50 company bought his startup. West is the inventor of five patents and a Fellow in the Edmund Hillary Fellowship.

I AM:

EXPERIENCED

KNOWLEDGEABLE

INTERNATIONAL

WEST STRINGFELLOW INNOVATES
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- A Fortune 50 company bought West’s startup.
- Vice President of innovation and the 1st Entrepreneur in Residence at Target
- Envisioned, built and led the Techstars retail startup accelerator
- Chief Product Officer at Bigcomerrce
- Chief Product Officer at Rosetta Stone
- Vice President of European innovation at Visa
- Senior Director of global platform, product and innovation at PayPal
- Senior Product Manager at Amazon
- Fellow at the Edmund Hillary Fellowship
- Inventor of five issued patents

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“West has a very unique mix of technical know-how, innovation and programme delivery, coupled with an extremely strong commercial and marketing skill set. This mix has invariably meant that he transforms and builds new revenue streams.”

Crispin T.

I help leaders grow their business.

West Helps Leaders:

How West Activates Innovation In You and Your Organization

How We Get Stuff Done

Awards

Patents

Let’s grow your business together.

West Built the World's Largest Innovation Resource: HowDo

Who is WEST STRINGFELLOW ?

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Resources

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