Anna Konoplianikova

Head of CEMEA Sourcing

Anna Konoplianikova heads the global sourcing team for Central Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Visa, leading procurement across high value spend categories as senior director for CEMEA sourcing. She has more than twenty years in procurement and finance, with an emphasis on risk-resilient sourcing, supplier partnerships and category strategy, and on the use of automation and advanced analytics to lift procurement capability. Before Visa she was head of procurement at the Chalhoub Group in Dubai, and earlier managed pan-European sourcing at Amazon, where she led a team of vendor managers.