Partnership Practice
Sheena White
Founder and Principal, Beacon Velocity Group
Fintech, Marketplace and Platforms
Two decadesBuilding partnerships
138%Portfolio revenue growth
131MAddressable customers
$28BPortfolio at PayPal

Partnerships are how a company reaches a market it cannot reach alone. Beacon Velocity Group builds the business underneath the deal, so it produces what it was supposed to.

Led by Sheena White, Founder and Principal.

Founders and operators whose growth runs through a partner often know partnerships are the path, but they lack the process, playbook, or system to make it produce revenue. That is the gap Sheena closes.
She has run every function that makes up a partnership: commercial operations, quota, P&L, negotiation, and product marketing. She has also sat on both sides of the table, as the business needing distribution and as the platform deciding who gets access. That range is my point of view: I know what to pressure test before a partnership breaks, whether that is the terms, the internal alignment, or how it goes to market.
She has spent two decades proving this at PayPal, Citi, American Express, and Goldman Sachs, building the programs, teams, and operating systems that did not exist before her.
She built Beacon Velocity Group to bring that same range to founders and operators, as both advisor and operator, building the strategy, closing the right deals, and putting the operating model in place so the partnership runs without depending on them for every decision. If that is where your business is, she would like to hear what you are seeing.

How BVG works

Few things compare to solving a hard problem and building growth out of it. That takes an experience the customer wants, a system that holds, and people who trust each other enough to build it.

Say no to get to a better yes.

A partnership only produces when both sides win. BVG designs for the partner’s incentives as carefully as yours. When the partner has no real reason to move, the honest call is no, and that is how you get to the one worth building.

Build for the business you have and where it is going.

Plans fail when they need a team, a budget or a quarter that does not exist. BVG builds for the people and the constraints that are really there, and for the plans already in motion, so it does not need rebuilding the moment it starts working. Whoever runs it helps build it.

The capability stays.

A launch date is not a plan, and a deck is not a capability. BVG agrees the criteria, the owner and the rhythm before anything goes live, then leaves all three with the people who will run it.

Own the number.

Partner revenue you cannot separate from direct revenue is a story, not a channel. BVG names the number and who checks it, so the company can defend it in the same review as everything else.

Experience Highlights
Payments platform x live events
Multi-year platform integrations across APIs, checkout, and co-branded payments.
$28B Portfolio138% Revenue Growth
Bank x tech platform
Co-led an enterprise digital banking partnership built from zero, negotiating across both companies and the regulators.
131M Addressable CustomersBuilt from Scratch
Card issuer x global hotel group
Directed a multi-year cobrand renewal, structuring payment and loyalty integration across the partner's global footprint.
Multi-Billion Dollar Renewal
Card issuer x grocery marketplace
Launched a marketplace partnership from zero. One of the fastest ramps in the merchant portfolio.
+61% Revenue in 3 months
Experience
2025 – Present
Beacon Velocity Group
Founder and Principal
2020 – 2025
PayPal
Sr. Director, GTM Transformation and Commercial Strategy
2019 – 2020
Citigroup
SVP, Global Consumer Bank BD and Strategy
2016 – 2019
American Express
Director, Global Cobrand and New Partnership BD
2006 – 2010
Goldman Sachs
Associate, Technology Division
Education
University of Chicago Booth
MBA
Villanova University
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Thought Leadership
Revenue Operations Alliance Summit
The Future of Pricing
Women Impact Tech Accelerate Conference
AI and Machine Learning: The Future of Work
Advisory
Villanova College of Engineering
Advisory Board Member
SESSIONS AND SPEAKING

The numbers partnerships change

A thirty-minute session for founders on what a partnership is supposed to move. The room works through four questions about a partnership they have or want, and leaves able to name what is missing. First of a four-part series.

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