American Express has named Corrina Davison as the next managing director of its Australia and New Zealand operations. Originally from Sydney, Davison is currently vice-president and head of US customer relationship management for American Express global commercial services in New York. Davison will oversee the entire organisation in both the Australian and NZ markets, including marketing, acquisition, product development and partnerships for American Express proprietary card services.It will be a return home for Davison, who joined American Express in 2001 as a marketing manager in Australia, moving to head of membership rewards and then in 2012, vice-president of brand, loyalty and rewards.She relocated to the US in 2012 as an executive member of a small team responsible for defining and building a national (ie, a US-based) loyalty and performance marketing program in the much bigger arena of the US business and commercial sector. According to a company note on her contribution in the US, Davison "played a key role in strategic planning and design elements including customer value proposition, partner strategy, and data agreements while negotiating key commercial terms with program strategic sponsors.""Australia and New Zealand are incredibly important to American Express, driving innovation and growth for the company, especially in digital payments," Davison said from New York. In this market Amex has been the first card payments issuer to launch wallets for all three non-bank tech-firms: Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay.Davison replaces Rachel Stocks, who has been promoted to executive vice president, in Amex's global premium products and benefits division. Amex said that during her five-year tenure as head of the Australia-New Zealand organisation, Stocks led the local business through "significant industry and regulatory change, delivered record acquisition and billings growth, and championed marriage equality and gender pay equity".