Linda Kirkpatrick

Linda Kirkpatrick is president of North America for Mastercard, overseeing the company's customer-facing activities in the United States and Canada, including sales, business development, strategy and relationship management with issuers, merchants, digital partners, governments and acquirers. She sits on the company’s management committee.

Linda brings a broad understanding and appreciation of broad customer needs across one of the company’s most competitive and developed regions. Prior to this role, she served as president of U.S. issuers, managing and expanding the company’s partnerships and business with banks and credit unions. Linda also led the team responsible for managing merchant and acquirer relationships in the market, as well as business development efforts in co-brand, prepaid, commercial, transit, healthcare and public sector.

Since joining the company in 1997, Linda has held several leadership roles, including overseeing global rules and standards, compliance programs and dispute resolution management functions, in addition to working on Mastercard’s initial public offering in 2006 and merger with Europay in 2002.

Linda was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2015. She is a member of the Board of Trustees at Manhattanville College, a member of the Partnership for NYC’s David Rockefeller Fellows Program, a board member for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of New York and a member of the New York Transit Innovation Partnership Board.

Linda graduated magna cum laude from Manhattanville College with a Bachelor of Arts in economics.