MasterCard & the Mobile Revolution with Alfredo Gangotena

Alfredo Gangotena

Alfredo Gangotena is Chief Marketing Officer of MasterCard Worldwide, with global responsibility for the company’s advertising, sponsorships, promotions, research, insights and digital marketing initiatives.

Most recently, Mr. Gangotena was the Global Products & Solutions Lead and General Manager for Europe at MasterCard Worldwide. Previously, he served as General Manager for Continental Europe and General Manager of the Asia/Pacific Region.

Before joining MasterCard in January 2004, he was CEO of Hutchison/Priceline, a joint venture between Hutchison Whampoa and priceline.com in Asia/Pacific. He also served as president and executive chairman of the Asia/Pacific Region for the Henkel Group of Germany. Prior to that, Mr. Gangotena held senior management positions with the Procter & Gamble Company as Managing Director Europe (Laundry Detergents Division), with Universal Music-PolyGram as CEO in France, and with the Walt Disney Company as senior vice president for the Disneyland Theme Park in Paris.

Mr. Gangotena, a French national, holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the United States and is a graduate Engineer from Ecole Centrale Paris, France.