Our Executives

Mete Guney
Executive Vice President, Services, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa

Mete Guney is Executive Vice President, Services, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) at Mastercard. In this role, he is responsible for developing and executing the Mastercard strategy in the markets. 

He and his team manage Mastercard relationships with customers across these markets. They also identify and implement new business opportunities with existing and new customers. In his previous role, he was senior vice president, Advisors, Middle East and Africa. 

Mete joined Mastercard in 2005 as a product sales specialist, supporting customers in Southern Europe to develop new consumer credit products and improve performance of existing portfolios. After two years, he became an account manager and contributed to the growth of Mastercard across the region.

Prior to Mastercard, Mete worked as a management consultant in various parts of the world and accumulated six years of experience in strategic planning and customer relations in a wide range of industries covering financial services, pharmaceuticals and telecommunication. 

Mete holds a double major degree of Industrial and Civil Engineering from Bogaziçi University. He continued his education at INSEAD, France to study for a MBA where his focus was on marketing, particularly marketing of pharmaceutical products. He is fluent in English and Turkish.