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Varun Kumar

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Executive Vice President at Mastercard
📍 London Area, United Kingdom

Varun is the Executive Vice President at Mastercard, where he focuses on nurturing his product engineering team. His career includes leadership roles in digital delivery at PayPal and managing large-scale digital platforms at Samsung. People who have worked with him describe him as a pragmatic, technically strong, and deep creative thinker.

Outside of work, Varun displays a humorous and self-deprecating personality in his writing. He is passionate about functional fitness, advocating for fundamental movements like squats and jumps over modern trends. He also enjoys reading about complex technical topics, including Large Language Models and Domain-Driven Design.

He humorously identifies himself as "the real Professor Flux. "

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Executive Vice President
Job Level
Leadership
Location
London Area, United Kingdom
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Product Engineering
His current role is focused on nurturing a high-performing and happy product engineering team at Mastercard.
Digital Delivery
He has extensive experience leading digital platform delivery and agile operating models from his time at PayPal and Samsung.
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Career

Work history

2-2022
Executive Vice President
Mastercard
8-2021 - 8-2022
Fellow
Fortune Connect™
3-2020 - 2-2022
Senior Director - Mastery of Magic
PayPal
8-2017 - 3-2020
Director of Digital Delivery, EMEA
PayPal
3-2014 - 12-2017
Program Director
Samsung Electronics
In the press

Media appearances

Varun Kumar – Executive Vice President, Mastercard (Speaker Profile). Featured in TechEx Events
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2024 Technology & Ed Tech Excellence Awards – Judges (includes Varun Kumar, EVP, Mastercard). Featured in Brandon Hall Excellence Awards
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Education
2004 - 2006
PhD
Loughborough University
2001 - 2004
MSc
Karnataka State Open University
1996 - 1999
BSc
Jitesh Vlog
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