Ron van Wezel (1961) has more than 20 years experience in the payments & cards industry. He joined ABN AMRO Bank in 1997.

As a Senior Vice President in the Market Infrastructures department he is currently responsible for the group’s involvement in financial industry developments for Payments&Cards. In this role he is representing the bank in international schemes, market infrastructures and financial industry bodies (like EPC, EBA, SWIFT, MasterCard/Visa). Key focus area is the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and its impact on the bank’s payment franchise.

In 2007 Ron was appointed chairman of Mobey Forum, the leading cross-industry group for the development of mobile financial services (www.mobeyforum.org).

Former assignments within ABN AMRO included
- Vice-President, Group Operations. Global coordination of payments&cards initiatives to realise operational synergies across the ABN AMRO group;
- Vice-President, Global Transaction Services. Global product management of client delivery channels for the wholesale bank.

Before joining ABN AMRO, Ron held several management positions in Dutch payment processor and clearing house Interpay (now Equens). He managed large and innovative projects for electronic banking, POS and ATM switching networks, and document image processing.

Ron graduated in 1986 in Chemistry and Physics at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He received his MBA in International Business in 1997 from European University, The Hague.