Ari Sarker

Until December 2025, Ari was the President - Asia-Pacific, at Mastercard and was a member of the company's Global Management Committee, a position he held for over a decade. Ari’s global experience in building businesses and driving growth, with P&L management and building diverse teams in an environment of rising regulations and nationalism, has been the hallmark of his career.

Prior to Mastercard, Ari was with the General Electric company, spanning a career of 13 years, starting in Corporate Audit, to GE Capital’s financing businesses, and lived and worked in multiple geographies including USA and India.

Ari has held, and continues to hold, a few independent board directorships and Advisory Board positions in his career. Most prominent amongst those served: Independent board director of Airtel Payments Bank Limited in India (2016-24), Cuscal Limited in Australia (2018-19), and board member Pine Labs Pte Limited (A fintech in Singapore) (2020-24).

Ari is also a member of the Global Advisory Council of ServiceNow, inc.; and an Advisory Board Member of the Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian School of Business; and has previously served as a member of the International Technology Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore; and served on the US-ASEAN Business Council board (2019-24).

Ari is also an advisor and mentor to a few AI-enabled growth companies based out of San Francisco and London. Passionate about the subject of AI, personally investing in the AI infrastructure space and investing in personal development. Completed a course with MIT Professional Education on “Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation”.

Ari is a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) graduate from Delhi University, a Master of Business Administration from Cardiff University, and is a qualified chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.