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Ann Cairns of MasterCard: The Art and Science of Team Chemistry

January 6, 2016 by Blog Posts

This interview with Ann Cairns, president of international markets at MasterCard, was conducted and condensed byAdam Bryant.

Q. What were some early influences for you?

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A. I grew up in the northeast of England, in a small mining village near Newcastle. My dad was a shoemaker who originally made shoes for miners. I grew up in a period when Margaret Thatcher was closing down mines across Britain, so there was very high unemployment in my town.

That had quite a big influence on people living in the area because, as kids at school, you would be thinking, “What can I do to make the best of life?” You realize that education’s important and that you need to spread your wings. So that was a big influence.

I won a scholarship at the age of 11 to go to a British grammar school. The headmistress, a nun, had a chemistry degree from Oxford. She was very pro girls doing science. It was an all-girls school, and there were a lot of scientists in the school. It seemed pretty natural to me to go to university to do math.

Tell me about your mother.

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