John Rubio is the Country Director of Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, John was the Founding CEO of Mynt, a mobile financial services startup of Globe Telecom and Ayala Group in the Philippines, which provides mobile payments, online and offline merchant acquiring, and alternative lending. With Alibaba’s Alipay subsidiary acquiring 45% of the company in September 2017, the company was valued at $100m.
Previous to Mynt, he was the President and CEO of BPI Globe Banko, the Philippines’ first and largest mobile only bank. He also spent 12 years as a Management Consultant and Strategy practitioner in the telecommunications and technology space for McKinsey & Company, IBM, and KPMG, based in various locations such as NY, London, Chicago, and Singapore.
He graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a dual degree MBA and MMM. His published articles deal primarily with micro-market management and driving mobile money adoption.