Andrew Buckley

Independent Governor at Birmingham City University

As Executive Vice President for New Payment Platform Products, Andrew Buckley, leads MasterCard's real time infrastructure, real time applications, push-payments (MasterCard Send) and Open Banking products. Enabling innovations in Real Time Payments, including the exponential growth of PromptPay in Thailand, The Clearing House’s new RTP in United States and Pay by Bank in the UK. Previously with MasterCard, Andrew held roles in both London and New York, most recently leading Prepaid; which has grown through innovation to become global market leader. Previously at American Express, Andrew held senior Sales and Technology roles, in both the UK and USA. These included Vice President for Global Corporate Card Product Management, launching innovations such as Corporate Centurion, and Vice President for Global Corporate Marketing, driving digital acquisition innovations. Prior to this he was a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and before that held sales and product roles with major Telecoms and IT companies. This experience included the startup of Telco’s such as Cegetel in France and BT NIS in Japan. In addition, Andrew has held Non-Executive roles, for example with Prepay Solutions in UK. He is an Advisory Board member at the IDM (Institute of Direct & Digital Marketing), a published author, holds several patents and a regular conference speaker. Andrew holds an undergraduate Electronic Engineering degree, MBA and Doctorate.