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Visa appoints Tareq Muhmood as Regional President for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa
Visa has strengthened its regional leadership in CEMEA by appointing Tareq Muhmood as Regional President. This move highlights Visa’s strategic focus on enhancing its executive presence across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Mr. Muhmood brings more than 30 years of banking and payments experience to the role. He most recently served as head of Value-Added Services for Visa’s Europe region, based in London, and originally joined Visa in 2019 as Group Country Manager for Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. Prior to joining Visa, Mr. Muhmood held senior leadership positions with Ahli United Bank, ANZ and HSBC. Mr. Muhmood will be based in Dubai, and will take on the role effective immediately, reporting to Oliver Jenkyn, Group President, Global Markets, Visa.
Mr. Muhmood succeeds Andrew Torre, who was recently appointed as President of Visa’s Value-Added Services business, which has rapidly grown into a $9B global business and has delivered annualized revenue growth of 20% since 2021. With this appointment, Visa reinforces its commitment to advancing digital payments under its evolving regional leadership in CEMEA.
“We are delighted to appoint a leader with Tareq’s deep experience at the intersection of financial services, technology and high growth markets to lead Visa’s fastest growing region and continue our journey to advance the future of digital payments across CEMEA,” said Mr. Jenkyn. “During the course of his career, Tareq has worked in 13 countries, and brings unique global perspective, world-class leadership and a proven track record partnering with Visa’s largest clients across diverse, complex and rapidly accelerating markets.”
“It is a great honor to lead the CEMEA region, and to continue the tremendous progress that has been made in transforming the future of payments, commerce and money movement across so many dynamic markets,” said Mr. Muhmood. “Having spent more than a third of my career in the region, I am excited by the incredible opportunity to further expand digital payments amongst more consumers, merchants and economies. I look forward to working closely with our outstanding team to enable shared growth with clients and partners across the region.”
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