Denis leads design, development and implementation of financial inclusion focused innovation programs at Mastercard's first Lab in Sub Saharan Africa. Situated at the intersection of user-centered design and portfolio operations, his day-to-day role involves

• exploring new areas where the Lab can be impactful; including but not limited to agriculture, SMEs, education and health;
• tapping into Mastercard's innovation process, technology portfolio and global partnerships to rapidly bring new, user-centered ideas to life;
• supporting the setup and incubation of high potential concepts. 

Prior to Mastercard, Denis spent 7 years as at Google as part of the founding Sub Saharan Africa team responsible for standing up operations in 5 countries, localizing Google's consumer facing products and services (search, translate, maps, gmail, android, youtube) and driving rollout of new payment products for emerging markets. (bebapay)

Denis holds a B.Sc in Software Engineering & minor in Technological Entrepreneurship from McGill University.