Mastercard's Many Paths to Innovation

09/29/21 • 25 min

On the latest episode of "Inside the Circles," Mastercard’s podcast about the future of work and the topics of now, host Latoya Bennett-Johnson chats with Eva Mudgal and Monica Agarwala about the company’s pathways to bring and keep more women in technology and innovation. Mudgal is an alum of Mastercard's global STEM program Girls4Tech that teaches programmers of tomorrow about algorithms, encryption, fraud detection, data analysis, digital convergence and more. Agarwala joined Mastercard in 2018 as part of "Relaunch Your Career," the company's program designed specifically for professionals who want to rejoin the workforce after a career break.

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For this episode, host Latoya Bennett-Johnson chats with Neil Parker and Jen Buckner. Buckner leads Mastercard’s Technology Risk Governance and Standards team. She’s also a recently-retired U.S. Army brigadier general who held numerous intelligence and leadership positions throughout her military career.

Parker is a vice president in Corporate Security responsible for leading our Business Security Enablement team. Before joining Mastercard, he deployed to the Middle East as a corporal with the British Armed Forces.

Tune in to hear more about their professional journeys, their experience moving from the military to civilian life and how they work on their mental fitness.