US-headquartered payment services firm Visa promoted Otto Williams (pictured) to oversee its strategic investments and partnerships in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) in June this year.
Williams will be situated in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, and has taken the role of vice-president and head of strategic partnerships, fintech and ventures for CEMEA. He came to Visa in 2010 through Syncada, a cloud payment venture formed by Visa and US Bancorp.
Visa promoted Williams, who had taken a global business development manager role at Syncada, to be its own director of global business development two years later, before promoting him to senior director of innovation and strategic partnerships in 2013.
Williams had been vice-president of innovation and strategic partnerships since late 2016, a San Francisco-based position that involved helping Visa form alliances that can help the company strengthen its financial technology resources.
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