Chris A. McWilton is President of Global Accounts for MasterCard Worldwide. In this capacity, Mr. McWilton oversees the company’s efforts to support global customer financial institutions, with an emphasis on developing tailored solutions to help customers achieve profitable growth. This includes managing the customer relations staff, whose representatives work directly with customers on a variety of payments initiatives, including account acquisition, portfolio acquisition, account retention, portfolio profitability, competitive positioning, and co-branding and affinity opportunities. He is a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Mr. McWilton joined MasterCard in 2003 as Corporate Controller and was appointed Chief Financial Officer in October of the same year. As CFO, he was responsible for all financial functions, including financial reporting, investor relations, planning, treasury, tax, and new markets and investments. Mr. McWilton led the effort to make MasterCard SOX 404 compliant and helped complete the company’s successful initial public offering (IPO) in May 2006. MasterCard’s IPO was the largest domestic IPO of 2006 and the twelfth-largest domestic IPO in U.S. history at the time. Prior to joining MasterCard, Mr. McWilton had a 22-year career with KPMG, where he specialized in financial and SEC reporting and was appointed an SEC Reviewing Partner. Mr. McWilton earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in accounting, summa cum laude, from St. Bonaventure University and is a certified public accountant.
