Mastercard Taps Jon Huntsman for Its Executive Leadership Team

Mastercard Inc. named Jon Huntsman as the payments firm’s vice chairman and president of strategic growth.

Huntsman will join Mastercard, including a role on its executive leadership team, on April 15, focusing on building out the company’s commercial partnerships with governments and public-sector institutions, and working on issues of inclusion, philanthropy and sustainability, the Purchase, New York-based company said in a statement Monday.

Jon Huntsman speaks during an interview in Beijing on June 10, 2010.

Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg

Huntsman has served in a variety of public-sector roles, including as US ambassador to Singapore, China and Russia, two terms as Utah’s governor and a stint as the deputy US trade representative. He was most recently ...