About William Stredwick

William Stredwick is Senior Vice President and General Manager for Global Network Services(GNS) North America. In this role, Will leads the high growth GNS NA business providing strategic vision and leadership that assesses, negotiates, implements and manages relationships with banks and other partners and leads the development and launch of new businesses, products, benefits and services. Responsible for the GNS NA business including P&L, market strategy, business development, marketing, NPD, customer acquisition & loyalty, digital capability, risk, servicing , technologies & operations. In his previous role Will was responsible for developing and launching American Express businesses in key markets across Europe. Under his leadership, American Express launched multiple new businesses and entered new markets. At the same time Will also led the launch of American Express Cards issuing business across the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe including Russia. William Stredwick has a joint honors degree in Economics and Politics from Leeds University. He is keen skier, cyclist and movie goer. Specialties: General management: P & L, business and market strategy, marketing, sales, partner relations, negotiation, servicing and operations. Previously, Will ran New Product Development for American Express Europe where he developed and launched over 100 new products across 10 markets including American Express’s first full revolving cards in Europe, first affinity products, both the Blue card and black Centurion card across the region, multiple major airline co-brands, small business services, Internet servicing, the first Amex chip cards and multiple premium and super premium products driving phenomenal growth across the continent.