Raja Rajamannar is an MBA with a history of executive leadership at Citi, Diners Club, Humana, and WellPoint, and a bucketful of directorships. He's been the chief marketing and communications officer for Mastercard for eight years, and is also the president of Mastercard's health care business unit.

He's also what I call a "push play" podcast guest. In other words, push play, and out flows relevant, structured, and digestible awesomeness. (There have been literally five or six guests like this in my podcasting career.)

Here are six things I learned from Mastercard's CMO: