Keagan Russo, is Fleetcor's President for North America Local, a company that provides fuel cards and workforce payment products and services.
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Keagan leads the North America Local Fleet Card line of business, which has ~50,000 businesses under the Fuelman and Comdata Mastercard brands. He joined FLEETCOR in 2019. Before his current role, Keagan lead go-to-market strategy and product for the Local business. Prior to FLEETCOR, he was a strategy and marketing leader at various fintech startups, a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and started his career at MBNA Corp. He received his JD from Boston College Law School and his BA from Colby College.
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Episode Guide:
1:38 - What is Innovation?
2:15 - Understanding: Shallowly and Deeply
4:37 - "Innovation equals speed to market"
5:29 - Creativity in innovation: a solution standpoint
6:15 - Fleetcor's Case Study
7:05 - CarAdvise Partnership
9:40 - Personal problem solving toolkit
13:19 - Implementation: the engineering aspect
14:23 - Chief Innovation Officer
15:55 - Pilot Launch: Electric Vehicle Fleet Payment Solution
17:00 - Internal Innovation and Entrepreneurial Innovation
18:07 - MBNA's FLC
23:02 - What isn't Innovation?
25:34 - Advice to Innovators
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