Rick Haythornthwaite held the role of chairman of Mastercard Inc. from 2006 until the end of 2020, He is currently the chairman and co-founder of QiO Technologies Ltd, an advanced analytics and AI software company. Rick has previously held the position of chairman at Centrica plc and Network Rail Limited, CEO at Blue Circle Group plc and Invensys plc, and non-executive directorships at Land Securities Group plc, Imperial Chemical Industries plc, Lafarge SA and Cookson Group plc.