About Driss Belemlih

Driss Belemlih is the Executive Vice President of Customer Delivery Lead for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) at Mastercard. Since joining Mastercard in 2001, Driss Belemlih has been responsible for leading a number of functions, including customer delivery in Middle East and North Africa, franchise development across South Asia, Middle East and Africa, and consumer products development in Middle East Africa. In addition, Driss Belemlih has been instrumental in driving Mastercard’s new consumers strategy, which focuses on bringing millions of new customers onto Mastercard’s network with solutions that help the underserved consumers across the MEA region gain access to mainstream financial services. With more than 21 years of payment cards experience, Driss Belemlih brings extensive knowledge of transaction processing, ecosystem build, payment industry rules and compliance, product development and management, project management, product innovation, and budget management. He has also been involved in customer host certifications, project management, rules and compliance, and risk management. His strengths include Payments Processing, Building and Executing corporate strategy, Strategic Alliances, Product Management, Product Development, Product Innovation, Customer Delivery/Operations, Cards Industry Rules and Compliance, Customer Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Project management, and Budget Management. Prior to joining Mastercard, He worked as a Financial Analyst at ABQ Investments. Driss Belemlih holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Florida, completed from 1995 to 2000.