Management Committee

Chiro Aikat is co-president, United States, for Mastercard. In his role, Chiro is responsible for U.S. acceptance, including merchants, acquirers, governments, processors and fintechs. He also has oversight of the commercial center of excellence and public sector engagement in the U.S., while helping to cultivate relationships with merchants operating across multiple regions. 

Throughout his two decades at Mastercard, Chiro has played an integral role in helping all customers implement a wide range of products and programs across the U.S. market. Previously, Chiro led the U.S. market development and product and engineering teams, where he focused on management of the company’s priority initiatives in North America, such as Mastercard Installments, open banking, account-to-account payments, real-time payments, Pay-By-Bank, marketing and cybersecurity services, ensuring continued value delivered to merchants, financial institutions and consumers.  

He has also helped lead a team that co-created and customized solutions for some of the largest issuers across the globe. Earlier in his career, he was part of the leadership effort to migrate the U.S. market to the EMV chip standard and to introduce contactless payments in North America. 

Chiro holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Saint Louis University. 

Ka-Wai Au is the Executive Vice President of Global Customer Delivery & Care at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Management Committee.

Ka-Wai leads the Global Customer Delivery & Care organization consisting of Delivery, Care and Operations in a unified team ensuring customer needs and interests stay at the heart of everything Mastercard does. His organization brings their unique depth and breadth of knowledge of how customers use our products and acts as their true voice within Mastercard. From product onboarding and implementation through customer support, this organization helps us show up as One Mastercard for all stakeholders across the entire experience journey.

With 25 years of international executive experience across FinTech, Technology Consulting, Banking and the UK Regulator body, Ka-Wai has reimagined technology priorities, created trusted partnerships, and ensured joint ownership when executing complex programs. Prior to joining Mastercard in 2023, Ka-Wai served as Head of Technology at Fiserv for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Financial Institutions Business operations. He played a pivotal role in leading a series of major client implementations, the acquisition of First Data, while also building the next generation cloud-based issuing processing platform. During his tenure at the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority, he led the implementation of fundamental change to the regulator’s delivery procedures. He also previously held leadership positions at Barclays Bank and Accenture.

Ka-Wai graduated from the University of Bristol in the UK with a Bachelor of Engineering degree with a concentration in Aerospace Engineering.

Mark Barnett is the Executive Vice President and Global Head of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) at Mastercard, and a member of the company’s Management Committee. He oversees all SME products and solutions, including card and acceptance products, along with an extensive suite of data, cyber, and embedded software solutions - each designed to help business owners run, grow, and protect their operations.

In this key global role, Mark is responsible for enabling small and medium businesses to thrive through trusted partnerships, seamless technology, and innovative services. Mark leads a business committed to doing well by doing good, and is focused on bringing more small businesses into the digital economy by expanding access to seamless payment experiences – powering global economies.

Prior to this role, Mark was president of Mastercard Europe, where he was responsible for driving a digital first-agenda. He led the company’s significant, profitable market share growth across a region that spans 43 countries, 550+ million consumers speaking ~39 languages and is driving 73+ billion purchase transactions through partnerships with retailers, financial institutions, and businesses. 

Mark joined Mastercard in 2003 and has held various leadership roles, including leading Global Consulting Services and serving as president of the Mastercard U.K., Ireland, Nordics and Baltics Division. 

Mark has over 25 years of experience in the retail banking and payments industry. Most of his client work has been at board level - developing payments strategy, designing product innovations, advising card schemes and processors, supporting government payment initiatives, and implementing major transformation programs.

Mark has an Master of Business Administration from Imperial College Business School at University of London, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics, also from London University.

Eimear Creaven is co-president of Global Partnerships and a member of the Company’s management committee. In this role, Eimear is responsible for innovating and co-creating programs with global partners spanning financial services, digital partnerships, platforms and channel enablers, as well as priority segments such as travel, insurance and healthcare. 

Prior to this role, she served as president of the company’s Western Europe region, leading relationship management, business development and execution of strategy with financial institutions, merchants, digital players and corporates in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. 

Earlier in her tenure with the company, Eimear led the consumer issuing business in the U.K. & Ireland division, following work with the European Market Development team.

Eimear has more than 20 years of experience spanning financial services, consulting and payments. Prior to joining Mastercard, she was at Alvarez & Marsal in London advising banks.  Before that, she held various roles with Allied Irish Banks, based in Dublin and New York.

Eimear holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD in France and Singapore.

Dimitrios Dosis is president of Mastercard’s Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) region and a member of the company’s global management committee. He is responsible for driving the company’s strategy across this newly expanded region, which now encompasses 81 markets, with agile, high-potential growth opportunities.

He was previously president of Mastercard Advisors, the company’s professional services arm. In this role, he led a global team focused on helping retail and banking customers solve pressing business issues with data-driven solutions. Mastercard’s anonymized and aggregated transaction insights, world-class analytic capabilities and embedded platforms with self-service predictive technology supplement the team’s industry-proven problem-solving skills. The team’s results-focused approach combined with leading-edge technologies and strong data assets deliver value to customers and create differentiation for the company.

Dimitrios has more than 20 years of experience in technology, transaction banking and management consulting. He joined Mastercard in 2005 from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, where he was leading the transaction banking practice. Previously, he worked for A.T. Kearney covering financial institutions business.

He serves as an independent director on the board of directors for the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece. Dimitrios holds an MBA and PhD from the European Business School, as well as a Master of Economics from the University of Hagen.

Jennifer Erickson is the Executive Vice President of Communications at Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. She is passionate about using innovative and authentic people-centric storytelling to advance the company’s objectives.

Across the globe, her team activates a multi-platform approach to protect and enhance the company’s reputation, highlight Mastercard’s differentiated products and services, and inspire its 20,000+ employees.

Jennifer joined Mastercard in 2019 from General Electric, where she served as chief communications officer, playing a pivotal role in leading the communications function while also protecting and enhancing the company's reputation through a period of significant transformation.

Prior to GE, she spent more than 15 years at Motorola, serving as vice president of global communications before being elevated to chief communications officer for Motorola Mobility when its consumer and professional businesses were split into two companies.

Throughout her 20+ year career, Jennifer has demonstrated a proven track record in developing and executing large-scale, business-building public relations strategies and critical, crisis management programs.

Jennifer earned a Master of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Roosevelt University.

Tine Fincioen is executive vice president of digital transformation at Mastercard and a member of the Company’s management committee.

In this role, she leads a team focused on growing and accelerating the company’s core payments activities through the activation of multiple solutions and platforms, as well as internal and external partnerships. These efforts include tracking and optimizing the performance of Mastercard’s core solutions, managing existing and building new optimization solutions, and maximizing fintech relationships and partnerships to innovate doing business with Mastercard.

Tine originally joined Mastercard to work in the company’s European finance team, holding roles with increasing responsibility before leading the European Customer Economics team. Prior to moving into the product organization, she served as the business unit CFO for Mastercard’s digital solutions, acceptance solutions and Foundry teams.

After earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in business engineering, Tine started her professional career at PwC in Brussels, Belgium.

Tucker Foote is chief government affairs and policy officer and a member of Mastercard’s Management Committee. He leads the company’s global engagement with governments, trade associations, think tanks and industry stakeholders, shaping the policy landscape to protect and promote Mastercard’s business priorities and ensure a secure, competitive payments ecosystem worldwide.

Since joining Mastercard in 2005, Tucker has held a series of leadership roles, including head of Public Policy for the Americas and executive vice president for Global Government Affairs. Under his leadership, Mastercard has navigated complex legislative risks, opened new markets and successfully advanced policies that foster innovation and financial inclusion. He has been recognized as a Top Lobbyist by The Hill every year since 2011 and has been named to Washington Life’s Power 100 list.

Prior to Mastercard, Tucker served as senior professional staff on the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, where he was instrumental in shaping financial regulatory policy, expanding consumer access to credit and addressing global threats related to money laundering and terrorist financing.

He serves on several advisory boards, including the Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service at the University of Maine and the Information Technology Industry Council.

Tucker holds a degree in economics from Yale University.

Pablo Fourez is chief digital officer at Mastercard, and a member of the Company's management committee. In this role, Pablo is primarily responsible for the company's digital strategy, delivering seamless, secure and differentiated solutions for the digital consumer and merchant. He also manages the tokenization, authentication and checkout platforms powering these solutions, supporting partnerships with technology players, fintechs and digital partners, and future-proofing the payments ecosystem. 

Pablo also co-leads the network product function responsible for Mastercard’s authorization and clearing systems and for advancing Mastercard’s vision of bringing immediacy to card payments.

Throughout his tenure at Mastercard, Pablo has led a wide range of global product functions including Click to Pay, Mastercard Send, digital wallet solutions, credential management and digital channels. Prior to these global roles, he held regional management positions at Mastercard's European headquarters. 

Before joining Mastercard in 2005, Pablo worked at McKinsey & Co., leading strategic consulting engagements across various industries, with a later focus on payments and banking. Prior to that, he worked for Monsanto Company in finance management roles at their global headquarters and at their Brazilian subsidiary.

Pablo has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and a Master of Business Administration from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. 

Michael Fraccaro is a Mastercard Fellow, responsible for advocating for advancements in human capital; deepening industry partnerships to drive our collective commitments to culture and people; and strengthening Mastercard’s position as an employer of choice. Previously, Michael served as the chief people officer at Mastercard for nine years, a period of transformational growth that saw the company more than double its workforce. Michael will formally retire from Mastercard at the end of 2025.

During Michael’s tenure as chief people officer, he was responsible for all human resources functions globally. His dynamic team oversaw cultural transformation, including the launch of The Mastercard Way values, the integration of more than a dozen acquisitions, and the global launch of an AI-driven growth and development platform. He built a leadership system to ensure breadth and depth of talent for short and long-term succession planning and was integral to the Mastercard CEO transition in 2021. He oversaw a comprehensive location strategy with the launch of Tech Hubs in high-growth markets such as India, Ireland and Canada. His leadership has helped forge numerous recognitions for the brand, including “most valued to work for.” In this role, he was a member of the company’s executive leadership team and management committee, and an active participant with the Mastercard Board of Directors.

Prior to Mastercard, Michael spent 10+ years at HSBC in various senior HR leadership roles in Australia and regional headquarters in Hong Kong. He also held senior HR positions in the financial service industry in the Middle East and Australia.

 Michael holds a Master of Applied Science, Communication Management from the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Bachelor of Education from the Australian Catholic University. He also has accreditation in change management from the Australian Graduate School of Management and attended leadership programs at Duke Fuqua and INSEAD.

 Michael serves as Chair of the Board of the Young People’s Chorus of New York City and is on the Board of the HR Policy Association. 

Johan Gerber is executive vice president of Security Solutions at Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. He is passionate about innovating to secure the digital ecosystem - and enhancing trust across our hyperconnected world.

His team works globally to design, develop and scale technology that protects consumers and customers from current and future cyber threats as well as fraud and other financial crimes.

During a career spanning 25 years Johan has overseen the growth of Mastercard’s cybersecurity offering, spearheading the successful acquisition of several security tech companies and harnessing Identity, data science and AI to diminish the criminal enterprise.

His track record in defining and implementing Mastercard’s strategic vision for security has led to accelerated innovation and differentiation, meaning his expertise is widely sought-after across industry. He sits on the Merchant Risk Council advisory board for the Americas.

Prior to joining the company Johan spent 10 years investigating organized crime and financial crime with the South African Police Services. He is a graduate of Rand Afrikaans University, holding a Degree in Forensic Auditing & Accounting.

Karen M. Griffin is the Chief Risk Officer for Mastercard and a member of the company’s executive leadership team and management committee.

She is the first executive at the company to hold this role, reflecting the increasing importance of the ability to manage an organization’s risk appetite in order to maximize growth opportunities. Karen leads a team focused on strengthening the company's risk management strategy and activities, building on the robust processes and procedures currently in place.

Previously she served as Chief Compliance Officer, developing a strategic vision and overseeing the company’s global ethics and compliance system. This effort encompassed a broad set of integrated programs including Business Conduct and Ethics, Anti-Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions.

Prior to joining Mastercard in 2014, Karen served as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Visa Inc. where she developed a company-wide ethics and compliance system following its 2008 IPO. Previously, she served as head of the Office of Business Conduct at Alcatel-Lucent. Karen has also held several business leadership roles at Lucent Technologies and AT&T including Product Management, Customer Delivery and Engineering

Karen earned her Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Karen is Vice Chair of the ICC Global Commission on Anti-Corruption and Corporate Responsibility, a member of the World Economic Forum Steering Committee for Partnering Against Corruption Initiative, the World Economic Forum Future of Good Governance, the B20 Integrity and Compliance Task Force, B20 Action Council on Women, Diversity and Inclusion in Business, and Advancing Women Executives. Previously, Karen was a member of the Mastercard Europe Board of Directors, and a Co-Chair of the B20 Integrity and Compliance Task Force.

Susan is executive vice president of Mastercard’s consumer acquisition and engagement services and a member of the Company’s management committee. She leads a team dedicated to helping customers acquire and maximize their customer relationships through the use of proprietary data insights, personalization technology, marketing capabilities, rewards and offers. These efforts and the team’s global expertise deliver unparalleled results to more than 3,700 clients in 190+ countries.

Susan joined Mastercard in 2011 as senior vice president of media solutions. In this role, she had global responsibility for building products that provided insights to advertisers, media platforms and digital content providers in order to improve media effectiveness and ROI. She played a leadership role in Mastercard’s acquisition of APT, including serving as the integration executive before leading product development for Data & Services and more recently marketing services.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Susan worked at IRI, where she ran a division that built and delivered analytic SaaS platforms that leveraged proprietary data, models and technology to provide real-time, predictive business solutions for the media, retail, CPG, and healthcare industries. 

Susan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Northeastern University.

As Executive Vice President, Global Brand Strategy & Innovation of Mastercard, Cheryl Guerin leads the overall stewardship of one of the world’s most iconic and recognizable brands. She also serves on the company’s management committee.

A passionate and accomplished marketer, Cheryl oversees the strategy and activation of Mastercard’s highly decorated Priceless campaign, advancing the brand to consumers and B2B audiences through cutting edge advertising, media, digital marketing and innovative insights that inform and inspire new opportunities for the business.

Cheryl led the launch of several innovations and platforms, including the True Name® card, which was recognized with a Cannes Lion Grand Prix in 2021. She spearheaded the Strivers Initiative supporting small businesses, Priceless Cities and Priceless Surprises experiences, as well as Priceless Causes’ Stand Up To Cancer program. The initiative has generated seven FDA-approved drugs.

During her tenure at Mastercard, Cheryl has held several senior marketing positions, including leading North America Marketing & Communications, U.S. Marketing and Global Digital Marketing. She also oversaw all products and services for North America and separately led the Global Credit Products business.

Prior to Mastercard, Cheryl worked on the advertising agency side at Bates Worldwide and Bozell.

Cheryl is a Clio, Effie and WARC awards juror and serves on the Board of Directors for The Advertising Club of New York, Ronald McDonald House NYC and Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation. She was named to Brand Innovators 2022 Top 100 Women in Brand Marketing list, Advancing Diversity.org Hall of Honors, Yahoo Finance OUTstanding Ally Role Model list, and the Moves Power Women list. Cheryl also received the Women in Payments “Change Agent” Award.

Cheryl earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business.

Ling Hai is President for Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa at Mastercard.  In his current role, he is responsible for advancing the company's business strategy, sales, business development, product management and engagements with customers and regulators.  Ling Hai sits on the company’s Executive Leadership Team as well as its global Management Committee.  

Ling Hai joined Mastercard in 2010 and during his tenure, he has served as Division President of Greater China, President of Enterprise Partnerships in London, and as Co-President of Mastercard’s Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore.  Most recently, he was Co-President of International Markets. 

Ling Hai started his career as a management consultant and worked for both Booz Allen Hamilton and A.T. Kearney.  He also held executive roles with Bank of America and HSBC. 

Ling Hai has built a track record of serving on both corporate and non-profit boards, as well as board committees.  He is Chairman of the Board of Mastercard NetsUnion Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and a Non-Executive Board Director of Cuscal Limited.  In addition, he serves as a director of the National Committee on US-China Relations and as a senior advisor for HongShan Capital Group.  He is also a co-chair for the B20 South Africa - Digital Transformation Task Force, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. 

Ling Hai graduated from the College of Saint Rose in New York and obtained his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. 

Tiffany M. Hall is general counsel for Mastercard and a member of the Company’s Management Committee. 

In this role, Tiffany oversees the company’s global law department. Prior to this role, she served as general counsel for the Americas, providing strategic advice and leadership on all legal, regulatory, government and franchise affairs in North America, Latin America & the Caribbean. At the company, she has had various other legal roles and served as senior vice president and chief of staff to the CEO. Tiffany also supported the prior CEO in his role as chair and first vice chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Executive Board.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Tiffany served as acting head of marketing, legal support and counsel at Pernod Ricard USA, one of the largest global wine and spirit companies. Before Tiffany became an attorney, she was a marketing manager at Sotheby’s auction house and worked in marketing and advertising at both Atlantic Records and Ogilvy & Mather. 

Tiffany serves on the board of directors of the Monster Beverage Corporation. She is also on the board of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. Tiffany is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a David Rockefeller Fellow at the Partnership for New York City. She is founder and owner of Empower Cocktails, a ready-to-pour cocktail brand that sells and promotes the Empower Cosmopolitan Martini. 

Tiffany was named a Legend in Law in 2025 by the Burton Foundation. 

Tiffany received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University and Juris Doctor from Fordham University’s School of Law.

Sherri Haymond is Mastercard’s Co-President, Global Partnerships, and a member of the company’s Management Committee. She co-leads a unique team working with Mastercard’s largest and most strategic partners to create innovative, differentiated products and solutions that shape the future of commerce. Inspired by Mastercard’s longstanding focus on inclusive growth, Sherri is passionate about working hand in hand with mission-aligned companies to solve real-world problems for people and businesses around the world.

Since joining Mastercard in 2010, first as legal counsel and subsequently focusing on digital products in Mastercard’s Digital Payments & Labs business, Sherri has been at the forefront of several initiatives driving transformation of the payments ecosystem, playing a significant role in the development and commercialization of solutions such as mobile payments, tokenization, open banking, installments and, most recently, agentic commerce.

Earlier in her career, Sherri was with Banc of America Securities in its structured finance group and practiced capital markets law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Sherri holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from Duke University. She is the proud founder of What’s Your Twenty, Inc., a small business in New York City. 

Jon M. Huntsman, Jr., Vice Chairman and President, Strategic Growth, is responsible for leading our efforts focused on expanding commercial partnerships with governments and public sector institutions along with driving the company’s inclusive growth, philanthropy and sustainability agenda. Jon also oversees the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. He has spent considerable time in public service at the state, national and international levels.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Jon served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, China and Russia under both Republican and Democratic administrations. He is the only American to have been Chief of Mission in both China and Russia. In a series of trade policy assignments, including as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Jon negotiated dozens of trade and investment agreements throughout Asia and Africa. Jon was also twice elected Governor of Utah, where he served as Chairman of the Western Governors Association.

Jon earlier served as an executive with Huntsman Corporation and most recently as Vice Chairman of Ford Motor Company, where he currently serves on the board of directors. He also serves on the Chevron board of directors. He is a trustee of the Huntsman Foundation which has led the way in establishing the Huntsman Cancer Institute along with the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, both at the University of Utah. Jon is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has 10 honorary doctorate degrees.

Pratik Khowala is executive vice president of Transfer Solutions at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Management Committee. He is responsible for driving growth and innovation of Mastercard’s global money transfer and bill pay businesses.

Pratik leads Mastercard Move, which facilitates fast and secure disbursements, remittances and business-to-business (B2B) payments across 180 countries and 150-plus currencies. He also manages Mastercard’s Global Bill Pay program, offering efficient solutions for businesses and consumers to pay and get paid.

Prior to his current role, Pratik has held several leadership roles since joining Mastercard in 2010, most recently as chief financial officer of Consumer Payments, Commercial and New Payment Flows. He has worked in many regions including Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Central Europe, and the U.S., and across diverse sectors such as payments, banking, manufacturing and IT services.

Pratik has over 25 years of CFO experience, during which he has focused on driving growth and transformations for global businesses. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Delhi University. He is a chartered accountant and chartered financial analyst.

Linda Kirkpatrick is president, Americas, responsible for Mastercard’s business in the United States, Canada and Latin America. This includes relationship management, business development, and execution of strategy with financial institutions, merchants, digital partners, fintechs and governments.

Linda brings a broad understanding and appreciation of customer and stakeholder needs. Prior to this role, she served as president of North America as well as president of U.S. financial institutions, where she expanded the company’s engagement model with banks beyond core payments. Linda also led the U.S. acceptance organization, where she deepened partnerships and service offerings with merchants and acquirers in the market and across the enterprise. 

Since joining Mastercard in 1997, Linda has held several leadership roles and contributed to the evolution of the company’s business model and culture. She spent over a decade in global and corporate functions, including managing standards and compliance programs, working on the company’s initial public offering, establishing the company’s investor relations function, and building commercial rigor within the organization. 

Passionate about financial inclusion and volunteerism, Linda serves on several boards, including Accion, Japan Society, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Partnership for New York City. She sits on the Global Board of Advisors at Operation Hope and is a trustee at Manhattanville College. The World Economic Forum named Linda a Young Global Leader in 2015, and she is a David Rockefeller Fellow. In 2020, Linda was named to the 2020 Bloomberg 50, Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual list of innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders who have changed global business.

Linda graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Manhattanville College.

As Mastercard’s chief product officer, Jorn Lambert is spearheading the shift to innovative, seamless and secure payments solutions, making Mastercard the best way to pay around the world.

Jorn leads Core Payments – a team developing the payments capabilities that are shifting the trajectory of the entire commerce ecosystem. The team encompasses a range of payments products and platforms aimed at providing richer, more secure, and scalable experiences for consumers and businesses. Digital solutions at scale such as tokenization, authentication, real-time payments, digital assets, new acceptance models and optimization support a myriad of in-store and online commerce use cases and set the stage for the next generation of payment experiences.

Before stepping into this role in 2024, Jorn was chief digital officer, where he set the company's digital strategy globally. In this capacity, he shaped leading-edge solutions to future-proof the payments ecosystem, serviced the platforms powering them, and embraced partnerships with tech, fintech and digital partners to drive further innovation. 

Jorn joined Mastercard in 2002 and has held a range of leadership positions across the organization to accelerate the company’s digital vision. Previously, Jorn spent several years in capital markets where he occupied various management positions in product development, product management and corporate strategy.

Jorn is a member of Mastercard’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee. Originally from Belgium, he resides in London. He holds a degree in Roman Philology at the University of Ghent and the Sapienza University of Rome, and a post-graduate degree in business economics from the University of Leuven.

Michael Lashlee is the chief security officer for Mastercard, leading a global team that ensures the safety and security of the company's network and internal and external products and services. He is responsible for corporate security, security threat and response management, security architecture and engineering, cryptographic key management, business continuity, disaster recovery and emergency management. Michael is a member of the company’s Management Committee.

Michael joined Mastercard in 2016 after a 25-year career with the U.S. Secret Service. He was a special agent and supervisor on the protective details for former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama and was the supervisor for the Counter Assault Team, providing dynamic tactical support for the president. His last two postings were as special agent in charge of the Forensic Services Division and the Technical Security Division, with responsibility for all technical protective countermeasures at the White House and other Secret Service protected facilities.

Michael has worked and traveled in more than 100 countries and was posted as the attaché to the U.S. Embassy in Paris, overseeing Secret Service protective operations, financial fraud and cybercrimes investigations in Western Europe, Russia and parts of Africa. He has more than 28 years of federal investigative and law enforcement experience and is certified under the Senior Executive Service program by the Office of Personnel Management for the Department of Homeland Security.

Michael sits on the advisory board of the European Cyber Crime and Fraud Investigators, the board of directors for the Global Cyber Alliance and is past chair of the American Transaction Processors Coalition Cyber Council.

He holds a graduate certificate in leadership from the Key Executive Leadership program at American University in Washington, D.C. and a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University. Michael formerly served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve as a non-commissioned Officer.

John Levitsky is co-president, United States for Mastercard and a member of the Company’s management committee. In his role, John is responsible for Mastercard’s U.S. product, services, technology, issuing business and financial institutions in the U.S.  This includes portfolios in the following segments: co-brand, commercial, prepaid, wealth management, emerging issuers, financial technology partners, regional banks, national banks and credit unions.

John joined Mastercard in 2000 and has held a variety of positions, including roles in finance and strategy.Most recently, John was president of U.S. financial institutions. John also led Mastercard’s corporate development team, having global responsibility for managing and executing acquisitions, divestitures and minority equity investments. John served on the board of directors of Mastercard’s investment portfolio companies and played a key role in Mastercard’s initial public offering.

Prior to joining Mastercard, John underwrote and managed commercial debt and equity portfolios at GE Capital. Before working at GE, John audited a wide range of security instruments at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and worked in a small business lending division at the Bank of New York.

John holds a Master of Business Administration from New York University and has an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University.

George Maddaloni is currently the Chief Technology Officer, Operations at Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee.

In this role, George leads the Operations, Network, and Employee Digital Experience organizations (ONE) through the delivery of operational performance and the modernization of Infrastructure and Platform Services. These platforms are delivering foundational elements for the current critical, Real-Time Payments Network that Mastercard runs as well, as driving the next generation of Multi-Rail Services being released. He has a passion towards developing high-performing teams with a track record of successfully transforming cultures through people, processes, and tools.

George has over 30 years of experience in the financial services and technology industries. Prior to Mastercard, he previously worked at AIG as the Chief Technology Officer where he was responsible for delivering computing, cloud, network, employee, and identity access services to AIG businesses. He also partnered closely with business CIOs on both the technology modernization strategy and business programs agenda. Earlier in his career, he served as Managing Director, Americas Infrastructure and Global Network Operations at UBS, in addition to spending 20 years in various positions at AT&T.

George earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, an MS in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology, and an MBA in Finance from Fordham's Gabelli School of Business.

He is a member of the Gartner Technology Infrastructure Research Board, the TBM Council Board of Directors, the Global Cisco Customer Advisory Board, and the Verizon Financial Services Advisory Board.

Ed McLaughlin is the president and chief technology officer of Mastercard and a member of the company’s management committee. He oversees the company’s technology functions, including the payments network, enterprise platforms, technology infrastructure and operations, information security and global technology hubs.

Prior to his appointment in 2017, he served as chief information officer, directing the development of Mastercard products and services. In 2010, Ed was named chief emerging payments officer, leading the development and launch of the company’s digital strategy, partnerships and platforms, and served as chief franchise officer between 2008 and 2010, where he was responsible for the Mastercard global rules, licensing, brand standards and compliance programs. Ed joined Mastercard in 2005.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Ed was group vice president, products and strategy at Metavante (now FIS) which he joined in 2002 through acquisition of Paytrust, an online payments company of which he was co-founder and CEO. Prior to co-founding Paytrust, Ed was the executive vice president of product and marketing at LogicWorks, Inc., a start-up data modeling software company that had its IPO on the NASDAQ in 1996.

Ed is on the Board of Directors for both Xerox and Vocalink Ltd, UK, and a member of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Council on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence. He was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame in 2024 and awarded Forbes CIO Next Award in 2023. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

Sachin Mehra is the Chief Financial Officer for Mastercard and is a member of the company’s Management Committee. He has over 20 years of financial leadership experience, including several roles within Mastercard since he joined the company in June 2010.

As the Chief Financial Officer of Mastercard since April 2019, Sachin is responsible for all corporate finance functions, including corporate controller, tax, internal audit, investor relations, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, financial planning and analysis, treasury, risk management, global supply chain, business unit finance and regional finance activities.

Over the past decade, Sachin has been instrumental in shaping the company’s growth and transformation efforts. Following his five-year tenure as corporate treasurer and then as Business Finance Officer for the company’s largest geographic region, he moved into a business role where he developed and executed the company’s commercial products (B2B) strategy, managed the product portfolio and deepened customer relationships.

Sachin regularly engages and contributes to the Board and other governance functions including audit and risk. In addition, Sachin is passionate about developing the next generation of talent, which he does as a mentor to high-potential diverse employees at Mastercard.

Prior to Mastercard, Sachin held treasury and finance roles of increasing responsibility at Hess Corporation, General Motors and GMAC in New York, Singapore, Belgium and Shanghai. He started his career at General Motors in the New York Treasurers Office.

Sachin currently sits on the board of Salesforce. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Darden Business School at the University of Virginia and received his undergraduate degree in commerce from Sydenham College at the University of Mumbai, India.​ Fluent in two languages, Sachin resides with his wife and two children in Westchester County, New York.

Ken Moore is Chief Innovation Officer at Mastercard and a member of the company's Management Committee. He leads the Mastercard Foundry organization, inclusive of R&D, Digital Futures, Product Lifecycle Management, and Experience Research & Design teams.

In this role, Ken is responsible for the company's innovation agenda, including incubating and bringing new products and services to market, unlocking the potential of emerging technologies, and anticipating changes in customer needs. Ken is an advisory board member to the World Intellectual Property Organization on the production of the Global Innovation Index.

He joined Mastercard in 2016 as Executive Vice President, Mastercard Labs, where he led the teams to create new products and experiences in digital payments, financial inclusion and commercial. He extended Mastercard's partner ecosystem by creating its global startup engagement program, Start Path, which helps innovative later-stage startups scale.

Ken is an Expert-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Labs at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Ken held roles of increasing seniority at Citi, Accenture and Misys. He has over 25 years of experience in International Financial Services across retail and corporate banking and has worked extensively throughout the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has held executive leadership roles in Product Management, Technology Delivery, Business Development, Strategy and Innovation. Ken holds a BSc in Commercial Computer Applications from the Institute of Technology in Waterford, Ireland, and is a certified Board Director with the Institute of Directors.

Susan Muigai is Chief People Officer for Mastercard, leading the company’s human resources strategy and function globally to enable the growth and success of the business. She serves as a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee. 

With deep expertise in building a dynamic, global workforce, Susan oversees all aspects of the human resources function, from culture to learning and development to talent acquisition and engagement to compensation and benefits. Her team is focused on ensuring Mastercard is the place where the best people choose to be, growing their careers as they help the company achieve its bold vision to power economies and empower people around the world.

Prior to joining Mastercard in 2025, Susan served as Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer for TransUnion. She was responsible for leading TransUnion’s Human Resource strategy, as well as the global communications function, and nurturing an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Susan has an extensive track record in talent strategy with a background in global HR, human capital management, organizational leadership, legal and compliance, business transformation and more. She previously spent 16 years at Walmart, where she supported 550,000 employees across 23 countries, and was based in the U.S., Canada and India.

Susan earned her Bachelor of Law from the University of Windsor in Canada, and her Master of Law in International Business from the University of London. She serves on the Board of Directors of Coursera, Inc. and the Breakfast Club of Canada.

Tim Murphy is vice chair for Mastercard, serving as an ambassador for the company globally and focusing on strategic relationships with regulators and policymakers. He is also a member of Mastercard’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee.

Before this appointment, Tim was chief administrative officer, a role in which he drove alignment and execution across functions such as Law, Government Affairs and Policy, Franchise, People and Capabilities, Corporate Security and more to best position Mastercard to deliver for all stakeholders. He also previously served as general counsel, bringing a business mindset to advance Mastercard's legal and regulatory affairs, public policy, corporate governance and compliance.

Throughout his 25-plus year tenure at Mastercard, Tim has also served as chief product officer, president of the company’s U.S. region and executive vice president of customer business planning and analysisBefore joining Mastercard in 2000, he was an associate in the New York and London offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton.

Tim is chair of the Board of Trustees for the National Urban League and he co-chairs the Cyber Readiness Institute. He sits on the boards of Northwestern Mutual, the Mastercard Impact Fund, Community Solutions and is a trustee of the U.S. Council for International Business. He is also on the advisory boards of the Asia Society Policy Institute and the Tech for Good Institute, and is a member of the Aspen Cybersecurity Group, Legal Services Corporation’s Leaders Council, the Economic Club of New York, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Tim was named a Legend in Law in 2018 by the Burton Foundation.

He earned a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Amherst College.

Marc Pettican leads the Global Corporate Solutions business for the Commercial & New Payment Flows (CNPF) team at Mastercard, where he’s also a member of the company’s Management Committee and the CNPF Leadership Team. Marc is responsible for executing the company’s Corporate Solutions strategy - empowering enterprises to succeed through innovative, trusted payment solutions that deliver a seamless, digital-first experience around the world. Marc has a proven background in driving innovation and growth with over 30 years of payments experience, having held several leadership roles at Barclays. Most recently, he served as CEO of Barclaycard Payments, where he was responsible for all aspects of
commercial activity including issuing, acquiring, and partnerships. Over his professional career, Marc delivered the UK’s first B2B Card-to-Account solution, helped shape the future of A2A payments as a Board member for Pay.UK, and actively supported the launch of contactless, digital wallets, and the award-winning business cash back card in the UK. As a leader, Marc has focused on modernizing tech, improving operational resilience, driving growth through key industry verticals and independent software vendor (ISV) integrations, and building high-value partnerships. Marc served on the CPI European Advisory Board for six years, and as a trustee for local charity Northamptonshire Sport, which uses the power of sport and physical activity to change lives.

Raja Rajamannar is chief marketing and communications officer for Mastercard and serves as a member of the company’s executive leadership team and management committee.

Over the past decade, Raja has transformed Mastercard into one of the fastest growing brands in the world. At the helm of the iconic Priceless platform, he and his team are on the cutting edge of experiential, multisensory marketing for consumers and customers alike. Raja has extended the reach and impact of the brand by embracing artificial intelligence and Web3 technologies while pioneering new standards in inclusive design.

Raja’s leadership has propelled Mastercard to one of BrandZ’s most valuable global brands, the world’s No. 1 audio brand five years in a row, as well as accolades from Disability:IN, Fast Company, Cannes Lions and other prestigious organizations. The transformative work led by Raja at Mastercard has been developed into case studies at both Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management.

A Wall Street Journal-bestselling author, Raja is a frequent speaker and media commentator. His book, “Quantum Marketing: Mastering the New Marketing Mindset for Tomorrow’s Consumers,” has become a touchstone for marketing leaders and academics around the world, and is now available in 11 languages.

Raja has deep business management experience, leading large revenue-driving organizations throughout his career. This has provided a critical foundation for ensuring marketing is a force multiplier for growth. Prior roles include president of healthcare at Mastercard, chief transformation officer for health insurance firm Elevance (formerly Anthem) and chief innovation and marketing officer for Humana. He held senior management roles with Unilever and Citibank.

Recently inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame and Forbes’ CMO Hall of Fame, Raja has been recognized as one of Business Insider’s Most Innovative CMOs seven times. He was also named WFA Global Marketer of the Year, Advertising Person of the Year by The Ad Club of New York, Adweek’s Brand Genius, Billboard’s Top Branding Power Player and Fashion Group International’s Tech and Brand Innovation Award recipient, among many other recognitions.

He is president of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and on the boards of the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), The Ad Council and Yale School of Management Consumer Insights Council. He serves on the board of PPL Corporation, a U.S. Fortune 500 company (NYSE: PPL), New York City Ballet, Cintrifuse, and not-for-profit Bon Secours Mercy Health.

Originally from India, Raja received his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Osmania University and Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. He currently resides with his wife and younger son in the United States.

Peter Reynolds is the executive vice president for real time payments at Mastercard, and a member of the Company’s management committee. 

In his current role, Peter leads teams focusing on building and operating Mastercard’s real-time payments infrastructure, which powers the UK’s real-time payments, settlements and direct debit system, including a network of nearly 70,000 ATMs and provides similar payment solutions to customers including Singapore, Thailand Philippines, Peru, Saudi and the United States. He is also driving Mastercard’s expansion into new markets, while bolstering the company’s technology platforms, and maximizing their potential to capture new payments flows.

Prior to joining Mastercard in 2022, Peter was chief information officer of corporate services and global payments at ANZ Bank, where he led corporate services and payments technology across 32 countries, including faster payments, cross border, open banking, financial crime and digital currency developments. Previously, he spent 5 years as chief technology officer at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and also established one of the UK Government’s technology innovation labs.  

Peter holds a PhD in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, awarded in 2010. He subsequently spent five years as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching digital innovation and digital ecosystems, global governance, and organizational transformation. He continues as an Industry Research Fellow to this day.

In his capacity as co-president for Asia Pacific at Mastercard, Ari Sarker oversees all of the company’s activities in the region including sales, business development, business strategy, public policy, and relationships with card issuers, governments, merchants and merchant acquirers. He is also a member of the company’s management committee.

Ari has been with Mastercard since 2011 and until June ’15 was Mastercard’s division president for South Asia and country corporate officer, India, providing overall leadership to Mastercard’s business in South Asia.

In his initial role in Mastercard as head of network processing for AP & MEA, Ari developed significant engagement across the markets of AP & MEA on various partnership discussions with domestic switches and regulators on building an open vibrant payment market environment. In addition, he has played an active role in leading, managing and identifying new equity investment opportunities covering switch acquisitions to acquisition / partnership in other areas of the business including bill payment, prepaid and transit across the region.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Ari spent over 12 years with GE in a variety of senior roles in accounting, audit, corporate finance, and private equity across several key markets in the Americas, Europe, & Asia Pacific. In his last role prior to Mastercard, Ari led the GE Private Equity business in India. His first role after university was working in the financial services group of Price Waterhouse in their London office.

Bunita Sawhney is the chief consumer product officer at Mastercard a member of the company’s management committee. She oversees all consumer and issuer product offerings, including the company’s credit, debit and prepaid products as well as ESG product innovations. In this key leadership role, she is responsible for enabling more secure and innovative ways for consumers to make everyday purchases.

Prior to this role, Bunita was Mastercard’s executive vice president of U.S. Financial Institutions, where she worked alongside customers to deliver products and services that meet people’s everyday needs, with security and peace of mind at the core. She was responsible for deepening and expanding Mastercard’s relationships with the largest financial institutions, including Bank of America, Capital One, Wells Fargo Bank and U.S. Bank as well as the community institutions and credit unions nationwide. She also focused on growing the consumer, small business and commercial business through strong partnerships, innovation and thought leadership.

Bunita previously led the Global Debit & ATM Products business at Mastercard, where she was responsible for global product line strategy, portfolio optimization, product development and the roadmap for the Debit Mastercard, Maestro and ATM offering.

In 2016, Bunita joined Mastercard, bringing an array of experience from her various management positions at HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank and Wells Fargo Bank. She most recently spent nearly 12 years at HSBC where she was the head of Customer Value Management, a broad function that included the strategy and execution across Consumer Propositions, Products, Marketing, CRM and Analytics.

Bunita is the global executive sponsor of Mastercard’s Women's Leadership network. She is also a member of the Women in Payments Advisory Board as well as a mentor for the 30% Club.

Bunita holds a master’s degree in strategic communications from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrea Scerch is president of Mastercard’s Latin America and the Caribbean region. In this role, Andrea is responsible for the strategy, direction, and overall success of all aspects of Mastercard’s operations across the region, which is comprised of 45 countries and territories, through its partnerships with retailers, fintechs, financial institutions, government, and businesses.

Andrea has held diverse roles during his tenure at Mastercard. In his previous position Andrea led Mastercard’s global Consumer Products and Processing team where he was responsible for the company’s “core” consumer product offer (credit, debit and prepaid products). Previously he was responsible for a group of processing assets, including Payment Gateway Services, enabling merchants to accept digital payments across multiple channels and markets; Payment Transaction Services, the technology helping issuers and acquirers process payments; and Prepaid Management Services, an end-to-end prepaid program manager. In this capacity, he also spearheaded the integration of multiple businesses, including Transaction Network Services, which was acquired in 2014.

Andrea first joined Mastercard in 2005 as the head of strategy for Europe before assuming the role of division president for Central Europe markets. Under his leadership, the company strengthened its position across the region, achieved strong growth and successfully deployed new payment technology in the markets.

Before joining Mastercard, Andrea was an associate principal at McKinsey & Company in Italy, where he worked with large, pan-European retail banks leading strategic projects on key business topics.

Andrea holds an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France and has a degree in Economics and Business Administration, from La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Eric Schneider is executive vice president, Services Business Development, and a member of the company’s Management Committee.

In this role, Eric is responsible for driving business development efforts, elevating partnerships with customers around the world, and evolving distribution models across the Data & Services organization.

In 2019, Eric was named executive vice president, Advisors Client Services at Mastercard, where he led a global team of talented professionals that brought data-driven services to customers, including analytics, insights, consulting, loyalty, marketing, innovation and Test & Learn.

Eric also held the position of group head and regional lead for Mastercard Advisors in Asia-Pacific from 2014 to 2018. Since joining Mastercard in 2001, Eric has held a variety of roles in the United States and helped establish the company’s services business.

Before joining Mastercard in 2001, Eric worked at the consulting firm, Edgar, Dunn & Company, where he specialized in market-entry strategy, interchange analysis and activity-based cost studies within the payments industry.

Eric earned a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in History from Cornell and a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford University.

Raj Seshadri is chief commercial payments officer at Mastercard, and a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee. She is responsible for Commercial & New Payment Flows focused on bringing the same safe and seamless experience consumers have come to expect in retail carded payments to commercial and corporate customers. 

With Raj’s leadership, the Commercial & New Payment Flows team delivers market-leading assets and rapid innovation across a dynamic innovative landscape that includes commercial cards (SME, T&E, Purchasing, Fleet, Virtual), B2B payables and receivables, bill payments, and domestic and cross-border money movement solutions. 

Previously, Raj was president of Mastercard’s global Data & Services team, helping to enhance the value of payments and enable customers to make smarter decisions with better outcomes, using a unique range of data-driven platforms and capabilities. She joined Mastercard as president of U.S. Issuers, where she led the growth of payments and services with banks and credit unions in a very competitive market. 

Earlier in her career, Raj led BlackRock’s US iShares business and was the global chief marketing officer for iShares. Prior to that, she had leadership roles at Citigroup, in global strategy, CitiBusiness Banking and Commercial Banking, as well as at U.S. Trust, McKinsey & Company, and Bell Laboratories.

Raj serves on the board of directors of Raymond James Financial Inc., the board of trustees of Mount Holyoke College, the board of the New York Philharmonic, and the global board of the American India Foundation. Raj received a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College in physics and mathematics, a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University.

For more than 20 years, Shamina Singh has been on the frontline of developing and implementing solutions to make the global economy work for everyone, everywhere. She is the Founder & President of the Center for Inclusive Growth, the social impact hub of Mastercard, and serves as Executive Vice President of Sustainability. As President of the Mastercard Impact Fund, she is charged with activating philanthropic dollars to advance inclusive growth and financial inclusion around the world. She is also a member of the company’s Management Committee.

Since 2014, she has led the Center with a remit to leverage Mastercard’s data, technology, capital and expertise for social impact. Under Shamina's leadership, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth was named as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2024. She has also been recognized for her work and leadership in American Banker and Financial Times.

Deeply committed to public service, Shamina currently serves as a member of the President’s Export Council, the principal national advisory committee on international trade. She has also held senior positions in the White House and the U.S. House of Representatives. Shamina sits on the board of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, Texas, co-chairs the Ad Council of America’s Advisory Committee and serves on advisory boards of, data.org; The Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship; the New York Department of Financial Services Innovation Advisory Board; and the CGAP Financial Inclusion Initiative.

She earned a Bachelor of Science from Old Dominion University and a Master of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. She received the alumni of distinction award from both institutions and is currently a contributor to MIT Sloan Management Review on the topic of Responsible AI.

Jess Turner is executive vice president and global head of Open Banking and API at Mastercard. She is responsible for leading the development and build-out of new products and technologies to enable the future of open banking, while driving innovation with key partners across the ecosystem including fintech companies and governments globally.

Prior to this leadership role, Jess served as the Executive Vice President of New Digital Infrastructure and Fintech where she led the strategy, design, development and commercialization of Mastercard's blockchain, digital assets, crypto and open banking products. She was also responsible for driving fintech innovation via various programs including Start Path, Mastercard's global startup engagement program.

Since 2006, Jess has held various roles of increasing responsibility at Mastercard including customer engagement and collaboration with telecommunications companies and banks where she was responsible for delivering both card and digital solutions, as well as payment experiences for both emerging and developed markets. She has extensive experience working with key issuers globally and advancing the company's inclusive growth strategy in North America. Prior to joining Mastercard, Jess led product development at Affinion Loyalty Group after beginning her career at Capital One for over 5 years.

Jess is a champion for women in technology both inside the global organization and within the industry at large, and currently sits on the board of the Women's Network in Electronic Transactions. She is also an alumnus of the Vanguard Leadership Program, where she spent a year working with other corporations on social responsibility for equality and sustainably in markets at risk.

Greg Ulrich is the chief AI and data officer at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Management Committee. He leads Mastercard’s approach for leveraging and integrating AI and data across the business, commercializing both internal and external applications and overseeing enterprise-wide governance of these functions.

Greg has been a key advisor to Mastercard’s executive team, helping shape the future trajectory of the company. Prior to assuming his new role in 2024, Greg served as an executive vice president of Corporate Strategy and M&A, in which he led a global team tasked with developing the company's strategy, driving key growth initiatives, and executing on inorganic investments and acquisitions. In previous roles, Greg has been responsible for guiding Mastercard's Data & Services strategy and innovation team, and he also served as the Data & Services lead in North America.​

Greg has more than 25 years of experience helping organizations use data and insights to develop innovative and practical solutions to challenging problems, maximizing shareholder value.

He originally joined Mastercard in 2015 when it acquired Applied Predictive Technologies (APT), a leading cloud-based analytics company. Greg guided the firm's Consumer Packaged Goods and Manufacturing vertical, and also served as the primary lead for its work in San Francisco, Australia and New Zealand.

Prior to joining APT, Greg was a management consultant, initially with Marakon Associates before working with myriad organizations in the social and nonprofit sector.

He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Duke University.

Rich Verma is chief administrative officer for Mastercard, overseeing the company’s Law, Government Affairs and Policy, Franchise, Corporate Security, and Community and Belonging functions. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee.

Rich has a distinguished background as a public servant. Most recently, he was deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2023 to 2025. Rich acted as chief operating officer of the State Department, leading its efforts on modernization, foreign assistance and a wide range of strategic issues.

He also previously served as the U.S. ambassador to India, where he led one of the largest U.S. diplomatic missions and championed historic progress in bilateral ties. He is a former assistant secretary of state for Legislative Affairs and national security advisor to the Senate Majority Leader. Rich has been a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Commission, and the Secretary of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board.

Rich also has extensive experience in the private sector. Prior to his most recent State Department tenure, Rich was chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard. He is a former partner at the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson and the vice chairman of The Asia Group, a global consulting firm. He also served on the T. Rowe Price corporate board of directors.

Rich is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and the recipient of numerous military awards and civilian decorations, including the Meritorious Service Medal, the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award, and the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship.

He is a board member of the Ford Foundation, and has previously served on the boards for Lehigh University and the National Endowment for Democracy. He is the inaugural President’s Distinguished Fellow at Lehigh and was a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Rich holds a doctorate in International Relations from Georgetown University, a law degree, cum laude, from American University, a Master of Laws with distinction in International Law from Georgetown University Law Center, and a Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University. 

Craig Vosburg is chief services officer at Mastercard and a member of the company’s Executive Leadership Team and Management Committee. He leads the team responsible for Mastercard’s value-added services, a critical set of growth enablers that differentiate payment offerings and diversify revenues. 

Services integrates key growth areas that solve real-world problems and drive impact for customers, including fraud management, risk and cybersecurity, consulting and marketing services, as well as insights, analytics, loyalty and personalization programs. Under Craig’s leadership, the team is also scaling new networks in global open banking and digital identity, and championing enterprise-wide innovation by leveraging AI and its in-house lab, the Foundry.

Craig previously served as Mastercard’s chief product officer, leading the global Product & Engineering organization. Previously, he was president of North America, where he was responsible for the company's operations and customer-facing activities in the U.S. and Canada, amongst several other leadership roles. 

Earlier in his career, Craig was a senior member of the financial services practices with Bain & Company and A.T. Kearney as well as vice president at CoreStates Financial Corporation.

Craig sits on the board of directors of Hawaiian Airlines, the Sultana Education Foundation, and the board of trustees of CancerCare. He is a past David Rockefeller Fellow at the Partnership for New York City. Craig holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University.

Tiffany Wan is executive vice president, strategy, corporate development and M&A and member of the Company's management committee.  She joined Mastercard in January 2023 as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy. Tiffany and her team develop the company’s strategy to support its growth. As part of this role, she collaborates and advises Mastercard’s executives and business leaders to help shape the future of the company.

Tiffany joined Mastercard from Bank of America where she was the Head of Product Strategy for the Global Transaction Services business. In this role, she was responsible for developing initiatives to both deliver out-sized growth and drive cost efficiencies across a portfolio of payments, receivables, and financing products for small, mid-size, and global corporates.

Prior to Bank of America, Tiffany worked at JP Morgan Chase in both their Corporate Strategy team and within their Payments (treasury management and merchant services) business.

Earlier in her career, Tiffany was in management with Deloitte Consulting where she worked with both public and private sector entities.

Tiffany has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies from Yale University and a Master of Public Administration in International Finance and Economics from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.