Wildfire Blog | Shawn Conahan
Shawn Conahan
Shawn has been an entrepreneur, senior executive, and investor in the wireless, technology and Internet industries for over 15 years, having previously built and sold three companies. His industry experience ranges from digital media to wireless technology to e-commerce where the common thread has been building platforms with broad applicability.
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Making Loyalty Pay For Itself With Online Shopping Rewards - A Tale of 3 P&L’s
By Shawn Conahan on January 11, 2024
Acknowledgements: I owe many thanks to Michael Marcus (Senior Advisor, BCG and Wildfire Board Member) for collaborating with me to expand on the concept of online shopping rewards as a core component ...
Shopping Rewards Programs: The Cornerstone of Consumer Engagement for Banks, Card Issuers, and Fintechs in 2023 and Beyond
By Shawn Conahan on December 12, 2022
At October’s Money20/20 USA event in Las Vegas, I met with 26 banks and other financial services companies. Do you know what ALL of them said? Literally all of the consumer-facing financial ...
Webinar Recap: How Fintech Partnerships Can Fuel Innovation with Wirex, Optty, and Wildfire Systems
By Shawn Conahan on September 12, 2022
Recently, I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar from The Fintech Times along with Georgy Sokolov, Co-Founder and VP of Partnerships at Wirex; and Natasha Zurnamer, CEO of Optty. The topic ...
Cashback for Consumers: Card-linked Offers, Shopping Portals, Something Else?
By Shawn Conahan on October 19, 2021
The economy is booming largely because consumers are, well, consuming. How and what people consume, is forever changed, and one key element is at the center of it all: e-commerce.
Messaging Contextual Shortcuts: The Hundred-Billion Dollar Facebook Killer?
By Shawn Conahan on October 05, 2021
If the most important mobile interface of the future is messaging, and it is, then Facebook paying $16 beeelion dollars for WhatsApp seems like a bargain today, and it is.