Ben Alissi

Background

Ben has spent more than 16 years across commercial strategy, partnerships and procurement, most of it in fintech and payments — sectors where the commercial terms and the vendor stack are load-bearing rather than administrative.

He has built procurement and vendor-assurance functions from the ground up, which is a different discipline from running an established one: at this stage the job is to create just enough process that people follow it, in companies that have very good reasons to resent process. He has also led commercial due diligence supporting mergers and acquisitions, which is where the cost of undocumented commitments becomes visible all at once.

On the partnership side, he has managed more than 70 global partnerships, including with AWS, Google Cloud and Mastercard. The useful part of that experience is not the logos; it is having seen at close range how many partnerships are signed with enthusiasm and never reviewed again.

What he works on at Groundwork

Ben leads the commercial side of the practice: commercial operations, vendor management and procurement, and the buy-side half of enterprise readiness — contract positions, procurement workflow and the commercial handoffs behind a deal that closes rather than stalls.

Operator track record

Before Groundwork, our partners built, scaled and protected technology organisations from inside them. Everything below was done in those roles, not as Groundwork client work — Groundwork is new, and we would rather show you verified operating history than dress it up as something it is not.