Walter Macnee

Walt M. Macnee is President, Global Markets for MasterCard Worldwide. In this capacity, he is responsible for MasterCard customer-related activities around the world. With all regions reporting to him, Mr. Macnee is able to leverage the company's seamless global structure and presence to the benefit of its customer financial institutions. Mr. Macnee is a member of the company's Executive Committee. Previously, Mr. Macnee was President of the Americas Region, with responsibility for building all aspects of MasterCard issuance and acceptance business in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. The Americas Region of MasterCard generates more than half of the company's worldwide volume. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Macnee was President of MasterCard Canada, where he oversaw the company's efforts to provide advanced, secure, and reliable payment solutions and to strengthen its position in the Canadian banking industry. Mr. Macnee briefly left MasterCard from 2004 to 2006 when he served as Executive Vice President, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, in Toronto. In that position, he was responsible for overall management of the bank's credit card business and national collections. Previously, he spent 18 years with Toronto Dominion Bank where, in his last position as Senior Vice President, he had full product management and client service responsibility for payment cards and personal lending. Mr. Macnee has also served as Chairman of Visa Canada and Director of Visa International. He has earned several university degrees, including a master's in business administration from York University.