Investor Relations

Committee Composition

Below is a summary of our committee structure and membership information. To read more about any of the committees, click on committee names in the chart below.
Chairperson Chairperson Committee Member Member Financial Expert Financial Expert
 Audit and Risk CommitteeCompensation CommitteeNominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Outside Directors
Thomas Campbell 
Thomas Campbell
(Class II)
Bank of America Dean and Professor of Business


Thomas Campbell has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Campbell is a Professor of Business at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Bank of America Dean of the Haas School from August 2002 to December 2004, and from December 2005 to June 2008. He was Director of the California Department of Finance from December 2004 to November 2005 and a Professor at Stanford Law School from September 1987 to August 2002. Mr. Campbell current... 
  Committee Member Chairperson
Gary Coughlan 
Gary Coughlan
(Class II)
Former Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance


Gary Coughlan has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Coughlan was the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance of Abbott Laboratories from May 1990 to March 2001. Mr. Coughlan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Mary’s College, a Masters degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Business Administration degree from Wayne State University.... 
Committee Member   
Mary B. Cranston 
Mary B. Cranston
(Class II)
Firm Senior Partner


Mary B. Cranston has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Ms. Cranston is currently the Firm Senior Partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, an international law firm. She was the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Pillsbury from January 1999 until April 2006, and continued to serve as Chair of Pillsbury until December 2006. She currently serves as a director of GrafTech International, Ltd., a manufacturer of carbon and graphite products. Ms. Cranston holds an A.B. degr... 
Committee Member   
Francisco Javier Fernandez-Carbajal 
Francisco Javier Fernandez-Carbajal
(Class II)
Former Chief Executive Officer, Corporate Development Division


Francisco Javier Fernandez-Carbajal has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Fernandez-Carbajal has been a consultant for public and private investment transactions and a wealth management advisor since January 2002. From July 2000 to January 2002, Mr. Fernandez-Carbajal served as Chief Executive Officer of the Corporate Development Division of Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer, a financial institution in Mexico. Prior to this role, he served in other senior executive positions... 
Committee Member   
John A. Swainson (Lead Independent Director) 
John A. Swainson (Lead Independent Director)
(Class III)
Chief Executive Officer


John A. Swainson has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Swainson served as a director of Visa U.S.A. from April 2006 to October 2007. Since February 2005, Mr. Swainson has served as Chief Executive Officer of CA, Inc., an information technology management software company, and he has served as President and a director of the company since November 2004. Prior to his joining CA Inc., Mr. Swainson served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales for IBM’s Software Group from July... 
  Committee Member  
Suzanne Nora Johnson 
Suzanne Nora Johnson
(Class II)
Former Vice Chairman


Suzanne Nora Johnson has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Ms. Nora Johnson was a Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from November 2004 to January 2007. Prior to this role, she served in several senior management positions at Goldman Sachs since joining in December 1985, including as head of the Global Investment Research Division from February 2002 to January 2007, as Chairman of the Global Markets Institute from November 2004 to January 2007 and as a member of t... 
  Committee Member Committee Member
Robert W. Matschullat Financial Expert
Robert W. Matschullat
(Class III)
Former Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer


Robert W. Matschullat has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Matschullat is a private equity investor. He served as the interim Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer of The Clorox Company from March 2006 to October 2006. He also served as the Vice Chairman of the board of directors and as Chief Financial Officer of the Seagram Company Limited, a global company with entertainment and beverage operations, from 1995 until 2000. Previously, he was head of worldwide inve... 
Chairperson   
Cathy Elizabeth Minehan 
Cathy Elizabeth Minehan
(Class III)
Former President and Chief Executive Officer


Cathy Elizabeth Minehan has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Ms. Minehan retired from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in July 2007 after serving 39 years with the Federal Reserve System, including most recently as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from July 1994 to July 2007, a member of the Federal Open Market Committee from July 1994 to July 2007 and First Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Federal Reserve Ban... 
Committee Member   
David J. Pang 
David J. Pang
(Class III)
Former Chief Executive Officer


David J. Pang has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Pang has been an adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration of The Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2002 and the Faculty of Business of City University of Hong Kong since 2004. He served as Chief Executive Officer of the Airport Authority of Hong Kong from January 2001 to February 2007. He was Corporate Vice President of E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company and the Chairman of DuPont Greater China fro... 
   Committee Member
William Shanahan 
William Shanahan
(Class III)
Former President


William Shanahan has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Shanahan was the President of Colgate-Palmolive Company from 1992 to September 2005. He is currently on the board of directors and audit committee of Diageo PLC, a premium drinks business with a collection of international brands. He is a director of Life Technologies Corporation, a global biotechnology tools company and MSD Performance Group, a privately held U.S. company. He is also a Management Advisor to Value Ac... 
  Chairperson Committee Member

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