Mr. Jason Coetzee has joined ICPS as Regional Business Development since 1st April 2017.
Jason has 17 years’ experience in the international payments industry. Having worked in South Africa and across the African continent for MasterCard International in a wide variety of roles including operations, business development and country and cluster management, he more recently headed one of the largest credit card businesses in Mauritius.
With the experience gained in managing MasterCard’s West, East and Southern African market clusters (27 countries) as well as several global-key accounts, Jason has consulted on card and payments business strategy and market development, operations and portfolio optimisation and product development in Africa and the Middle East. He consolidated MasterCard’s presence in West Africa through the opening of the company’s Lagos office and the issuance of several million branded cards in the region and has more recently also worked in the associated fields of insurance, financial inclusion, digital finance and broader relationship and account management.
Jason holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from the University of Johannesburg (RAU) as well as an MBA from the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (WBS).