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title: "Mastercard's Implementation Approach"
url: "https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-implementation-approach/"
description: "Vivek Radhakrishnan and Fabien Thiaucourt from Mastercard share their rollout strategy."
keywords: "atlan, data governance, regovern 2025, regovern watch center"
---

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**Mastercard's Implementation Approach** - a Re:Govern 2025 recording on the Atlan Re:Govern watch center, with Vivek Radhakrishnan, SVP, Data Governance Engineering; Fabien Thiaucourt, SVP, Data Governance & Enablement (Mastercard). The recording plays for about 2 minutes, then the page asks for an email to keep watching. Watch it at https://atlan.com/regovern-watch-center/mastercard-implementation-approach/.

## Speakers

- **Vivek Radhakrishnan**, SVP, Data Governance Engineering, Mastercard. Vivek leads data governance engineering at Mastercard, designing systems for scale and reliability across the company's global data ecosystem. He ensures context is embedded into every data product, powering AI use cases from text-to-SQL to conversational analytics while supporting billions of transactions.
- **Fabien Thiaucourt**, SVP, Data Governance & Enablement, Mastercard. Fabien helps people find, trust, and use data responsibly at global scale at Mastercard. He leads platform product, governance cataloging, and enablement functions - transforming governance from compliance into business enablement for AI-ready data products.

## Company: Mastercard

Mastercard processes billions of transactions globally, with AI now powering 1/3 of its products. 160B+ transactions scanned annually by AI-driven fraud detection. 2,000+ specialists advance data & AI innovation under Data Responsibility Principles.

## What's inside

Mastercard didn't roll out governance to everyone at once - they started with a small set of stewards, onboarded the assets those stewards cared about, and defined what makes something a "data product." By curating experiences for different user personas and measuring engagement continuously, they iterate based on real usage rather than assumptions about what users need.

Key takeaways:

- Start with early adopters and stewards, not company-wide rollouts - partner deeply to solve real problems first
- Prioritize asset onboarding based on what stewards care about, not trying to catalog everything at once
- Define clear criteria for what makes something a data product and what metadata others need to see
- Curate user experiences for different personas - privacy users need different views than business unit analysts
- Measure engagement constantly and iterate - just because you think something works doesn't mean it does

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