Walt M. Macnee

President, International Markets
MasterCard Worldwide

Walt M. Macnee is President, International Markets for MasterCard Worldwide and a member of the company’s Executive Committee. In this capacity, he is responsible for MasterCard’s management of all markets and customer-related activities outside of the United States. In this role, Mr. Macnee is able to leverage the company’s seamless global structure and presence to the benefit of its customer financial institutions. MasterCard’s international markets currently generate more than half of the company’s worldwide volume.

Previously, Mr. Macnee was President, Global Markets, with responsibility for building all aspects of MasterCard issuance and acceptance business globally. Prior to this, he was President of the Americas Region. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Macnee was President of MasterCard Canada, where he oversaw the company’s efforts to provide advanced, secure, and reliable payment solutions and to strengthen its position in the Canadian banking industry.

Mr. Macnee briefly left MasterCard from 2004 to 2006 when he served as Executive Vice President, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, in Toronto. In that position, he was responsible for overall management of the bank’s credit card business and national collections. Previously, he spent 18 years with Toronto Dominion Bank where, in his last position as Senior Vice President, he had full product management and client service responsibility for payment cards and personal lending.

He has earned several university degrees, including a master’s in business administration from York University.