Shehryar Ali is Country Manager for Mastercard, East Africa. He is an experienced payments and digital financial solutions expert with over 20 years of experience working for well reputed banks in Africa and Asia. He started his career at Citibank Pakistan, followed by a decade at Barclays and Mashreq Bank in Egypt. More recently, he was heading the Retail and SME Banking business at Bank One, Mauritius. Shehryar is a graduate of University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Computer Sciences. Over his career, he has launched many firsts and successfully led credit card issuing/acquiring, e-commerce, m-commerce, consumer lending, retail and SME business.