An astute management professional with 20 years of experience in finance, operations and payments. Shabir Ahmed leads the Customer Solutions team at Mastercard within Southern Africa where he is responsible for the product strategy across 10 African markets. In his previous role at FNB, Shabir was an executive member of the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Product House and the Merchant Acquiring team where he headed up the Operations, Industry, and Interbank Portfolio.