Our Executives

Muhammad Nana
Senior Vice President, Digital Partnerships, Eastern Europe Middle East & Africa

Muhammad Nana is the Senior Vice President, Digital Partnerships for the Eastern Europe Middle East, and Africa region. In this role, he is responsible for formulating and executing Mastercard’s strategic intent with Digital Partners across 82 markets and managing a team who holds key relationships with these partners across the region. These Digital Partners includes a portfolio of 10 key segment partners: Telco’s, Fintech & Enablers, Marketplaces, Ride Hailing, Logistics, Crypto Exchange Houses, Digital Giants, BNPL etc.

Muhammad has over 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and operations holding leadership positions within the Financial Services industry within Banks and Fintech’s.

Muhammad joined Mastercard in 2016 and has held varied roles in the organization managing multiple sales product lines across several geographies and regional clients. Prior to taking up his current role, he was responsible for building Mastercard’s Fintech Segment across the EEMEA region where together with his team delivered a 40% growth year on year. 

Muhammad’s career in financial services began at Standard Bank in 2004 in back-office operations, leading operations activities across the sixteen African countries for the group. Right before joining Mastercard, he was responsible for the growth & operations of secure mobile remote payment authentication at MTN MobileMoney Holdings (Oltio).