{"id":323087,"date":"2021-08-26T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/?p=323087"},"modified":"2021-08-26T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:23:29","slug":"visa-appoints-leila-serhan-to-lead-operations-across-north-africa-levant-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2021\/08\/26\/visa-appoints-leila-serhan-to-lead-operations-across-north-africa-levant-and-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Appoints Leila Serhan to lead operations across North Africa, Levant and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">VISA a appoints Leila Serhan as senior vice president to lead operations across North Africa, Levant and Pakistan<\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">Serhan brings more than two decades experience of leadership positions, including 20 years gained at Microsoft<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leila Serhan Visa&#8217;s Group Country Manager and Senior Vice President NALP<\/p>\n<p>Leila Serhan Visa&#8217;s Group Country Manager and Senior Vice President NALP<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press Release<\/p>\n<p>Amman (Jordan): \u2013 Visa (NYSE:V) today announced the appointment of Leila Serhan as Group Country Manager and Senior Vice President to lead its presence across the North Africa, Levant and Pakistan (NALP) region. Ms. Serhan brings more than two decades experience of leadership positions, including 20 years gained at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Serhan most recently led Microsoft\u2019s public sector business across the Gulf region, and previously served as General Manager for its operations across North Africa, East Mediterranean, and Pakistan. She previously held roles spanning country management, finance and marketing and has driven public and private sector digital transformation initiatives in finance, government and education. Ms. Serhan is a strong advocate for women\u2019s empowerment, founding and currently serving as President for the Women in IT Association in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Visa is the market leader across the North Africa Levant and Pakistan region which serves 15 countries from five regional offices. Visa recently announced its intention to open a new office in Sudan, one year since the first Visa card was issued in the market. Ms. Serhan will form part of Visa\u2019s Central &amp; Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMEA) leadership team, reporting to Regional President Andrew Torre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISA a appoints Leila Serhan as senior vice president to lead operations across North Africa, Levant and Pakistan\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":323088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Visa Appoints Leila Serhan to lead operations across North Africa, Levant and Pakistan - egy-africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VISA a appoints Leila Serhan as senior vice president to lead operations across North Africa, Levant and Pakistan\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2021\/08\/26\/visa-appoints-leila-serhan-to-lead-operations-across-north-africa-levant-and-pakistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visa Appoints Leila Serhan to lead operations across North Africa, Levant and Pakistan - 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