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Financial services giant Mastercard has named Christine Elliott as executive vice president of global communications. 

Elliott joins the debit and credit card brand from S&P Global (McGraw Hill Financial), where she was chief communications officer. Prior to that, she was stationed with American Express for more than a dozen years, where she first served as corporate communications VP before taking the top CCO slot in 2014. She held stints at Edelman subsidiary Zeno Group (then under its PR21 monicker) and Hill & Knowlton. She began her career as an associate producer at ABC News, where in 1999 she received an Emmy Award.

Elliott will oversee corporate, internal, external and digital communications at the Purchase, New York-based global payments company. She’ll report to Chief Marketing and Communications officer Raja Rajamannar.