51 - 150 in alphabetical order of CVC unit: Mohamed Khalil, vice-president, strategic investments and portfolio management, Mastercard

Mohamed Khalil is focused on strategic investment execution and portfolio management for payments technology company, Mastercard. Khalil initially joined to lead the StartPath Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to startup engagement programme dubbed StartPath.

The fund invests in select companies that have been selected for and participated in the startup engagement scheme, which was launched in 2014. The programme has since expanded to include new dedicated tracks for blockchain and cryptocurrency as well as open banking. More recently, his focus has expanded to oversee strategic investment execution and portfolio management across the firms investments.

Through his time at Mastercard, Khalil worked on several investments focused on providing capital and partnership to some of the most promising startups globally with examples including Marqeta, dLocal, Deserve, Synctera, Infinicept, Minka, among several others.

Khalil has been with Mastercard since 2018 and his previous roles include director for strategic investing, mergers and acquisitions, as well as early-stage investment lead.

Prior to joining Mastercard, Khalil was a member of human resources software company ADP, and was earlier a part of the team building Morgan Stanley’s mass-affluent financial advisory model. He started his career as an engineer at Emerson Network Power.

Khalil has an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the Albert Dorman Honors College at New Jersey Institute of Technology.