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Yevgen Lisnyak is Senior Director at Visa, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Fintech and Ventures in Ukraine, CIS & South-East Europe (17 markets). His key responsibilities include identifying, support and development of the high potential partnerships for Visa in new robustly growing fintech business environment driving cashless economy. Yevgen joined Visa in 2017 as Head of Innovation Solutions. In this role Yevgen successfully managed and launched transit and smart city solutions in Ukraine and CIS countries. Now Yevgen focuses on support of neobanks, mobile finance services of MNOs, digital products of traditional banks, innovative disruptive fintech companies as well as fintech ecosystem development on 17 markets. Yevgen has deep expertize and impeccable reputation in fintech society, he ensured support and built Visa strategic partnerships with wide range of fintech companies starting from Monobank, todobank and Neobank in Ukraine to cloud digital Space Bank and the first fintech in CIS with Visa membership license Unicard in Georgia, unique loyalty platform UMICO in Azerbaijan, Kazpost and Beeline in Kazakhstan, innovative Alif Bank in Tajikistan and disruptive mobile operator Humans Mobile in Uzbekistan. Yevgen Lisnyak brings to Visa 15 years of international experience in IT and consulting gained with leading international companies. Mr. Lisnyak holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Physics and Mathematics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).