BIO

President of Mastercard’s Central Europe division
Peter Bakenecker is President of Mastercard’s Central Europe division. He is responsible for leading
Mastercard’s strategy and operations in 11 countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.
Prior to this role Peter was Division President for Germany and Switzerland. Since joining Mastercard in
2006 Peter held various management positions, including Head of Product, Business Development as
well as Digital Payments for Europe. For many years he was part of the Mastercard Advisors’
management team for Europe, Asia-Pacific and MEA, where he had the opportunity to design and build
payments technology solutions in various geographies for different industries.
Before joining Mastercard, Peter was with Batten & Company as well as Roland Berger Strategy
consultants as part of their financial services practices.
Peter holds an MBA in Banking & Finance from the University of Essen/Duisburg and the University of
Technology in Sydney. He completed executive programs at the London School of Economics and
Political Science.