Thomas Sales
Product & Technology Officer
Thomas is a hands-on product and tech leader with 19 years of experience. As CPO and COMEX member of BlaBlaCar, he scaled the product organisation from 1M to 50M+ users across 10+ countries.
- Previously
- BlaBlaCar · Finalcad · SlimPay
- Industries
- MarketPlaces · Consumer apps · Fintech · AI
More about Thomas
He joined BlaBlaCar as its first PM hire, and launched payments on a platform where rides used to be free, scaling them to 2M monthly transactions. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded Memorizer, a consumer mobile app that reached 150k monthly active users before its exit, and Solved (by Hexa). He also held VP Product roles at Finalcad and SlimPay, both as a COMEX member.
He is currently fractional CPO at Worldia, in travel tech. Since 2022 he has worked as a fractional and interim CPTO for scale-ups such as Jolimoi, Edenred Mobility, Poiscaille and Babysittor. At Babysittor he drove an AI-first transformation: a team of 3 now ships 20 releases a month, on par with teams three times its size.
- Securing continuity, structuring the product org and hiring the team that takes over
- Embedding AI into engineering, data, marketing and support, with measurable velocity gains
- Growth, monetisation and trust & safety for marketplaces and consumer mobile
- Rebuilding payment infrastructure end to end, from checkout to payouts
- Launching new business lines from scratch
Where Thomas makes the difference
Fractional and interim CPTO
Secures continuity, structures the product org and hires the team that takes over
AI-first transformation
Embeds AI into engineering, data, marketing and support, with measurable velocity gains
Small teams that ship like big ones
Sharp prioritisation, AI-augmented workflows and hands-on leadership
Simplifying products
Removing friction and cutting what doesn't matter until product-market fit clicks
Payments and marketplaces
Growth, monetisation, trust & safety, and payment infrastructure rebuilt end to end
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Start within two weeks
Part-time, scaled to the gap. No full-time commitment.
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