Our Executives

Gabriel Swanepoel
Division President, Africa

Gabriel Swanepoel is the Division President at Mastercard for Africa. Based in Johannesburg, Gabriel oversees Mastercard’s business across the continent, focusing on advancing digital payments adoption, strengthening financial ecosystems and supporting customers and partners as they expand access to secure, inclusive commerce.

Prior to this role, Gabriel was the Country Manager for Southern Africa where he drove the performance, strategic direction and brand development in Southern Africa. His role included finding new ways to scale innovative technologies and services in partnership with Mastercard’s customers such as banks, fintechs, telcos, retailers and government entities - to create a world beyond cash.

Gabriel has been involved in new business development and innovation initiatives within the payments industry for the past 22 years.

Previously he was the Vice President of Business Integration at Mastercard Southern Africa and also consulted at MTN Mobile Money Holdings, where he was responsible for innovation related initiatives. As an entrepreneur, Gabriel was one of the founders of XLink Communications, a machine-to-machine communications business, which today is one of the leading providers of card terminal and ATM communications services in South Africa.