Martina Hund-Mejean is Chief Financial Officer for MasterCard Worldwide. In this position, she is responsible for all financial functions, including financial reporting, investor relations, planning, treasury, tax, new markets and investments, and enterprise risk management.
Prior to joining MasterCard in 2007, Ms. Hund-Mejean, served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Tyco International Ltd. She joined Tyco in 2002 as part of its "new" management with responsibility for all areas of treasury, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. During her tenure with Tyco, she executed $6 billion in financings in order to address Tyco's 2002/2003 liquidity crisis. She also revamped the company's capital structure, including debt reduction and share repurchase programs; introduced a new banking infrastructure; implemented revised risk management processes; and was instrumental in streamlining Tyco's business portfolio, including the most recent separation of Tyco's Healthcare and Electronics businesses.
Prior to Tyco, she was Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Lucent Technologies Inc. (now Alcatel-Lucent). In this position, her responsibilities included capital markets, corporate finance, banking, credit and risk management, and investor relations. From 1988 to 2000, Ms. Hund-Mejean held a series of finance positions of increasing responsibility at General Motors Corporation, both in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Assistant Treasurer post. She began her corporate career as a credit analyst at Dow Chemical in Frankfurt, Germany.
Ms. Hund-Mejean received a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. She has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance" by Treasury & Risk Management Magazine on three occasions.
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