Raj Seshadri is a senior strategic advisor to the CEO at Mastercard. In this role, she supports key customer relationships and partnerships, select M&A initiatives and emerging strategic priorities.
Previously, Raj served as Mastercard's chief commercial payments officer, where she built the Commercial & New Payment Flows business unit globally. This business spans commercial cards, B2B payables and receivables, bill payments, and money movement, focused on small businesses, middle market companies, multinational corporates, and governments. Under her leadership, the business delivered significant growth and innovation, setting it up as a key driver for the company today and tomorrow.
With Raj's leadership, the Commercial & New Payment Flows team delivers market-leading assets and rapid innovation across a dynamic innovative landscape that includes commercial cards (SME, T&E, Purchasing, Fleet, Virtual), B2B payables and receivables, bill payments, and domestic and cross-border money movement solutions.
Previously, Raj was president of Mastercard's global Data & Services team, helping to enhance the value of payments and enable customers to make smarter decisions with better outcomes, using a unique range of data-driven platforms and capabilities. She joined Mastercard as president of U.S. Issuers, where she led the growth of payments and services with banks and credit unions in a very competitive market.
Earlier in her career, Raj led BlackRock's US iShares business and was the global chief marketing officer for iShares. Prior to that, she had leadership roles at Citigroup, in global strategy, CitiBusiness Banking and Commercial Banking, as well as at U.S. Trust, McKinsey & Company, and Bell Laboratories.
Raj serves on the board of directors of Raymond James Financial Inc., the board of trustees of Mount Holyoke College, the board of the New York Philharmonic, and the global board of the American India Foundation. Raj received a bachelor's degree from Mount Holyoke College in physics and mathematics, a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University.
Class year: 1987
Joined board in: 2017, re-elected in 2022