MasterCard: Tap and go?

Mike Cowen is product manager for the MasterCard range of payment solutions for public transport. He is based in the MasterCard London office, and works closely with MasterCard staff in New York, Belgium and across the globe. Mike was part of the team behind the successful launch in October 2005 of a world first: a new MasterCard OneSmart solution bringing open payments to the public transport system in Taiwan.

 

In 2000, Mike was recruited by Mondex International as technical product manager. He joined the MasterCard Chip Centre of Excellence in 2003 as a member of the Chip Product Management Team transferring in June 2007 to the newly formed Global Transit group.

 

Mike's previous experience includes ten years in the electronic security industry, where he specialised in access control and identification technologies in particular advanced RFID technologies. He began his career in the industry as a systems engineer, later moving into sales and then product management.

MasterCard Worldwide is a driving force at the heart of commerce, enabling global transactions and bringing insight into the payments process to make commerce faster, more secure, and more valuable to everyone involved. As a critical link among financial institutions and millions of businesses, cardholders and merchants worldwide, MasterCard provides services in more than 210 countries and territories. MasterCard advances commerce worldwide by developing more secure, convenient and rewarding payment solutions, processing billions of payments seamlessly across the globe, and building economic connections that accelerate business.