Mastercard announced a series of leadership updates that build on the company’s strategy and momentum by sharpening execution and deepening its customer focus in support of its continued growth.
These moves reinforce the depth of Mastercard’s executive bench and the real value the company brings to its customers and partners. As part of these updates and continuous evolution, Mastercard is unifying its customer focus under one team to underscore its consistent support, coordination and accountability across all markets. The changes further reinforce how the company integrates the customer perspective into the development of its products and services.
Leadership updates effective August 3, 2026:
- Ling Hai, President of Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa, will become Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Sachin Mehra. He brings broad operating experience across international markets, deep knowledge of our customers and products, and a strong commercial perspective to the role.
- Sachin Mehra, Chief Financial Officer, will move into a newly created role as Chief Business Officer, responsible for country operations across the globe. He will also be responsible for Sales Enablement, Global Partnerships, and Digital Commercialization under a single global go-to-market leadership structure. Sachin brings strong operational discipline, financial rigor, and commercial acumen to this role.
- Linda Kirkpatrick, President of the Americas, will become Chief Services Officer, succeeding Craig Vosburg. She brings broad experience, having expanded the company’s engagements beyond payments, deepened partnerships and expanded services offerings for financial institutions, merchants, fintechs and digital partners.
- Dimi Dosis, President of Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, will become Chief Commercial Payments Officer, leading Commercial & New Payment Flows, succeeding Raj Seshadri. With deep regional and enterprise leadership experience, Dimi brings a strong track record of driving growth and translating global strategy into local execution.
- Jorn Lambert, Chief Product Officer, will continue to lead Consumer Payments, bringing together the company’s stablecoin, agentic and core payments.
- Craig Vosburg, Chief Services Officer, will transition to Vice Chair and serve as a global ambassador for the company, while also partnering with the regional leadership teams to build critical senior stakeholder relationships.
- Raj Seshadri, President, Commercial & New Payment Flows, will become a Senior Strategic Advisor to the CEO, providing support for senior client engagement, key partnerships and emerging strategic areas.
- Tim Murphy, Vice Chair will retire from Mastercard in October, as planned.
