Mas­ter­card has ap­point­ed Ki­ki Del Valle as the di­vi­sion pres­i­dent for North Latin Amer­i­ca, en­com­pass­ing key re­gions such as Mex­i­co, Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

In a state­ment, the com­pa­ny said this “strate­gic move” re­in­forces Mas­ter­card’s com­mit­ment to sus­tained growth in an ever-evolv­ing and com­pet­i­tive land­scape.

Ac­cord­ing to the glob­al tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­ny in the pay­ments in­dus­try, Del Valle is a strate­gic and re­sults-dri­ven ex­ec­u­tive leader with more than two decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, glob­al prod­uct de­vel­op­ment, fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion, pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ships and lead­ing teams across re­gions world-wide.

Fur­ther, it said that with over 15 years of ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice to Mas­ter­card, Del Valle al­so brings a wealth of ex­pe­ri­ence to her new role, hav­ing held di­verse lead­er­ship po­si­tions in the US, Glob­al, and Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) re­gions, in­clud­ing mar­ket de­vel­op­ment, dig­i­tal part­ner­ships, and dig­i­tal prod­ucts.

“Un­der her lead­er­ship, Mas­ter­card has suc­cess­ful­ly en­gaged with in­dus­try stake­hold­ers across cru­cial seg­ments, fos­ter­ing strate­gic di­a­logues that have so­lid­i­fied the com­pa­ny’s po­si­tion as the pre­ferred part­ner for fin­tech col­lab­o­ra­tions. Ki­ki’s track record ex­em­pli­fies her ded­i­ca­tion to ad­vanc­ing Mas­ter­card’s goals in a rapid­ly chang­ing fi­nan­cial land­scape,” the state­ment said.

Be­yond her pro­fes­sion­al achieve­ments, the com­pa­ny said Del Valle is a gen­der ad­vo­cate, ac­tive­ly cham­pi­oning di­ver­si­ty and in­clu­sion with­in Mas­ter­card as she has served as the ex­ec­u­tive spon­sor for the US His­pan­ic Group and Women Lead­er­ship Net­works in the Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean re­gion and has been in­stru­men­tal in pro­mot­ing and em­pow­er­ing women and mi­nori­ties in lead­er­ship roles.

“Ki­ki Del Valle’s com­mit­ment ex­tends to com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment and so­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, serv­ing as a board mem­ber for Wa­t­erAid Amer­i­c­as and the Damas Foun­da­tion in Puer­to Ri­co. Through­out her ca­reer, she has men­tored more than 100 women and fin­tech founders across the Amer­i­c­as.

“Amongst some of her ac­com­plish­ments are the de­vel­op­ment of the Tech for Good As­so­ci­a­tion in Latin Amer­i­ca, a pri­vate part­ner­ship to ac­cel­er­ate dig­i­tal and fi­nan­cial in­clu­sion ef­forts across the re­gion in 2020, serv­ing as the ex­ec­u­tive spon­sor of Start Path Em­podera em­pow­er­ing women in Colom­bia and Pe­ru through men­tor­ing and the de­vel­op­ment of busi­ness skill sets, and the for­ma­tion of To­das­Conec­tadas, a dig­i­ti­za­tion plat­form de­vel­oped in part­ner­ship with UN Women and Mi­crosoft to help digi­tise women MSMEs across the en­tire Latin Amer­i­ca re­gion,” Mas­ter­card added.

The com­pa­ny added it is con­fi­dent that Del Valle’s ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence, strate­gic vi­sion, and com­mit­ment to in­clu­sive growth will play a piv­otal role in pro­pelling the com­pa­ny’s suc­cess in North Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.