Asif Durrani Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I am working as a Country Manager for UAE (+5 markets). Prime responsibility is to drive business strategy and managing P&L. Secured 35+ agreements and incentive deals with banks, FinTech and processing companies. I have established strong relationship with key industry players at senior level. I am also accountable for people management and relationship management with acquirers, issuers, regulator, FinTech players, and payment associations.- Highlights of my achievements in my current role:- Established a solid foundation of cards acceptance in UAE by partnering with all acquiring banks and processing companies. This made UAE the first market outside Mainland China with strongest contactless acceptance. - Launch of QR payments in UAE and enabling all key acquirers. - Launch of ecommerce acquiring with MPGS, CyberSource and 3DS 2.0. - Strategic Agreement with Central Bank of UAE for acceptance at ATMs- Issued more than 1 million physical and digital tokenized card.- Launched 15 physical and 5 virtual (tokenized) card issuance products.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

I worked as Senior Business Account Manager to retain and grow business with key clients in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Pakistan. The responsibilities include sales pipeline management, revenue growth, contract management and project governances. This also includes ensuring the completion of projects on time within allocated budget and resources.

I worked as Business Development Manager and managed relationship of Visa tier-1 clients. I was responsible for spend stimulation, portfolio segmentation and effective cardholder communication. I also worked with consultants on card business advisory services and negotiated several incentive deals.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Increase strength of 1LINK from 15 banks to 30 banks within short period of time and worked on 50+ projects. Launched real-time interbank funds transfer, utility bill payments, mobile top-u and Visa Debit cards with local partner banks.

Doctorate Of Business Administration, Dba, Organizational Leadership

Currently enrolled in a part-time Doctorate program with a quantitative research topic to analyze the impact of FinTech in payments.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Executive MBA from Hult International Business School with specialization in Management. Program comprised of 44 credit hours in total..

Executive Education, Strategy

Attended Strategic IQ Program at Harvard Business School. A renowned on-campus strategy program led by Prof. John R. Wells, Professor.

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Bs (Software Engineering)

BS (CS) from University of Karachi. A four-year full time degree program consists of total 144 credit hours. Degree conferred in Nov 2002.