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Co-President, Asia Pacific, Mastercard

Hai Ling serves as Mastercard's co-president for the Asia/Pacific region, with focus on Northeast Asia and Australia. He was most recently Mastercard's group executive of enterprise development for international markets. Before that, Hai ran MasterCard's Greater China business, overseeing all aspects of operations in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan with the objective of growing its market shares and enhancing the MasterCard brand. Before joining MasterCard in 2010, Hai was head of partnership business and co-brand marketing with PCCC, a joint venture company between HSBC and Bank of Communications. He was instrumental at PCCC in developing and managing merchant partnerships in the areas of co-branded credit cards, installment loans, and preferred merchants. Hai worked with Bank of America and MBNA in the U.S. in product development and customer insights, where he spearheaded innovation through new products, markets and channels, and leveraged research and development to create insights-driven marketing and product innovation. He also worked in management consulting with Booz Allen & Hamilton and A.T. Kearney in both the U.S. and China. Hai graduated from the College of Saint Rose in New York and obtained his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. He is a Fellow of the second class of the China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.