Keyka Pourkarimi – Acting Chief Executive Officer
Keyka is a well respected payment industry expert with around 20 years experience. He has held a number of senior management positions including Vice President of IT Business Solutions at First Data International and Senior Business Technology Manager at Standard Chartered Bank.

Keyka has proven international experience in successfully delivering business needs through information systems, information technology and organisational design solutions combining strategic alliances within banking, finance and the credit card industry. His experience of management in the payment industry has spanned across Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific regions. He was a past member of Visa International and MasterCard’s Asia Pacific Advisory Boards on smart card initiatives as well as EMVco’s.

Keyka holds a BSc Honours degree in Pure Mathematics.

Adnan has comprehensive knowledge of various card payment industry aspects from both technical and business sides. His experience in the payment industry includes managing different card programs (Visa, MasterCard, Cirrus and American Express) for both debit and credit networks. Adnan was a key member in the National Switch Committee that was formulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain to establish and set up the ‘BENEFIT’ switch that links all the local banks.

Within AFS, Adnan achieved the successful migration of some banks mega portfolio to AFS, and introducing new technology and business initiatives such as EMV, Acquiring Processing and Payment Gateways.

His retail payments knowledge covers a wide range of areas including card production, card personalisation, card issuing and acquiring, POS and AT M management and fraud detection. Having worked with banks, retailers and processing companies in over 50 countries, he also brings valuable international experience to AFS. Martin holds a MBA in strategic management and MSc in Computer Science.

Mansour has worked for American Express Technologies for over 11 years where he led the implementation, integration and migration of various global systems and was key to the establishment of the Finance IT Development group responsible for servicing the Finance Resource Centre EMEA region.

He also led implementation of the Imaging and Workflow initiative undertaken by American Express Finance in EMEA and India. Mansour combines both business and technical knowledge with a broad experience in finance, process re-engineering, programme management, EMV, workflow, electronic document and record management, and web technologies in general.

Ebrahim comes with a wealth of knowledge in Accounting, Investment and Cash Management. He served in American Express Middle East and was a key player in the team managing the project to automate the Customer Receipt Collection system in EMEA offices. Ebrahim holds diploma in IFRS study and pursuing his a CMA professional certification program.

He joined Euronet Middle East - a subsidiary of AFS - in 2005 as Manager IT and Infrastructure and was promoted to Head of IT for both JV partner organisations AFS and Euronet Middle East.

Hasan worked for HSBC Bank heading the Office Automation department, Bahrain Stock Exchange in which he took a leading role in setting up the new IT infrastructure and new trading system and American Express Middle East where he headed the data centre, IT Operations and help desk. Hasan holds a B.Sc. degree in computer science.

Adil worked for 14 years in American Express across various departments in the Operations area including New Accounts, Credit and Collection, Customer Services and Establishment Services Department.