Lynne Biggar is the executive vice president and chief marketing and communications officer of Visa. In this role, Biggar leads Visa’s global brand strategy, including all consumer, B2B and client marketing activities that advance Visa’s brand and business goals. She also oversees management and activation of Visa’s world’s leading sponsorship assets, internal and external communications, insights and marketing capabilities and analytics.

Since joining Visa in February 2016, Biggar has driven business outcomes and award-winning initiatives, and Visa’s brand continues to accelerate its stature as one of the most valuable brands in the world. She was the first to launch multi-sensory branding, and with a passion for purpose-led marketing, Biggar leads global strategies focused on women’s empowerment, small business and microenterprise support and cross-border commerce. Biggar has also broadened Visa’s global sponsorship approach while completing multi-year extensions with key global sponsorship assets; Visa today is the only brand in the world that is a major sponsor of the NFL, FIFA and Olympics.

Biggar has been recognized by Business Insider as one of the 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World (2020), by the Forbes list of Top Influential CMOs (2019-2020), and by AdWeek’s Top 50 and 30 Most Powerful Women in Sports (2018 – 2020). Brand Innovators also named her on its ‘Top 100’ Women in Brand Marketing list in 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Biggar joined Visa from Time Inc., where she was the executive vice president of Consumer Marketing and Revenue. Prior to her role there, she spent more than 20 years at American Express in a variety of general management and marketing positions in the U.S. and international divisions.

Biggar holds a BA in international relations from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Paul Fabara is Visa’s executive vice president and chief risk officer. In this capacity, Mr. Fabara is responsible for maintaining the integrity and security of the Visa payment system, while also serving as the principal liaison with regulatory agencies. He ensures that Visa continues to deliver industry-leading services to prevent, detect and mitigate the impact of fraud and security attacks on Visa’s clients and other payment system stakeholders. Mr. Fabara joined Visa in 2019.

Prior to Visa, Mr. Fabara held a number of key leadership roles at American Express Company (Amex) during his eight-year tenure. Most recently, he held the position of president of the global services group for Amex. As a member of the Amex executive committee, he was responsible for the company’s global servicing functions, including customer service, credit, and fraud operations, as well as enterprise-wide strategic initiatives. Most notably, as chief risk officer, Mr. Fabara promoted strong capabilities and disciplined, integrated risk controls. He improved corporate control and compliance in order to identify, monitor and manage risks and led the company’s broad-based activities to meet the requirements of regulatory orders.

Previously, Mr. Fabara served as global chief operating officer for Barclays’ credit card business, based in London, where he was responsible for card operations across 71 countries. Earlier, he was the chief operating officer of Alliance Data Systems, servicing more than 400 private label credit card programs ranging from retail to travel and entertainment. Mr. Fabara started his career at Providian Financial Corporation, where he served in many capacities including risk management, underwriting, marketing, sales and service, and credit administration.

Jennifer Grant is Visa’s executive vice president, human resources and chief human resources officer. Ms. Grant is responsible for setting the HR strategy and leading all of Visa’s human resources functions globally, including talent management, staffing, compensation, employee relations, retention, diversity and inclusion and performance management. She joined Visa in August 2018.

Ms. Grant has more than 20 years helping global companies align HR strategies to meet changing business needs. Prior to joining Visa, she served as executive vice president and chief human resources officer for Air Products & Chemicals, where she was responsible for leading and directing the HR strategy, talent management, total rewards, HR operations and medical organization for 15,000 employees across 35 countries. Prior to joining Air Products, Ms. Grant served as the vice president of human resources for Pfizer’s specialty products and oncology divisions. She previously held a range of international HR management roles at Pfizer, supporting their commercial and manufacturing organizations.

Ms. Grant began her career with GE, where she graduated from their HR leadership program and went on to hold a variety of roles of increasing responsibility across multiple divisions.

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in organizational behavior from the University of Michigan, Ms. Grant was awarded a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in human resources management from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University.

Oliver Jenkyn is Visa’s executive vice president and group president & regional president for North America.

As president of North America, Mr. Jenkyn has business, financial, strategic and operational responsibility for the company’s business in the U.S. and Canada. Mr. Jenkyn has run Visa’s North America business since 2011.

In his capacity as group president, Mr. Jenkyn is responsible for managing Visa’s largest global financial institution clients as well as Visa’s global deal team that is responsible for negotiating major global partnership agreements. Mr. Jenkyn also oversees multiple global business lines including Visa’s commercial business (Visa Business Solutions) and Visa’s consulting and analytics teams.

Mr. Jenkyn joined Visa in 2009 as global head of Strategy and Corporate Development.

Prior to Visa, Mr. Jenkyn was a partner at McKinsey & Company in the San Francisco, New York, London and Toronto offices, and a leader of the firm's North American retail banking practice and global payments practice. Mr. Jenkyn also led McKinsey’s relationship with Visa for several years, playing an integral role in Visa's IPO.

Mr. Jenkyn holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from McGill University and master's degrees in business and finance from Harvard University and Queen's University. Mr. Jenkyn sits on the board of directors of Tipping Point, a San Francisco nonprofit that works to fight poverty and homelessness.

Chris Newkirk is Visa’s chief strategy officer. In this role, Mr. Newkirk leads the development of the company’s growth strategy, and also oversees the company’s Global Interchange and Pricing function. Mr. Newkirk joined Visa in June 2020.

Prior to Visa, Mr. Newkirk held leadership roles in the U.S., UK and Canada with Capital One, where he most recently served on the Executive Committee as president of Small Business, International & Walmart Partnership. In that capacity, Mr. Newkirk had full P&L responsibility across six lines of business, spanning growth strategy, marketing, sales and financial performance to customer experience, digital transformation, risk management, talent strategy and venture investing. Prior to joining Capital One in 2008, Mr. Newkirk held several leadership roles at IndyMac Bank. Previously, Mr. Newkirk was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Newkirk received his B.A., cum laude, from Yale University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He serves on the board of the District of Columbia College Access Program.

Rajat Taneja is president of technology for Visa, responsible for the company's technology innovation and investment strategy, product engineering, global IT and operations infrastructure. He joined Visa in November 2013.

Prior to joining Visa, Mr. Taneja was executive vice president and chief technology officer of Electronic Arts Inc., from October 2011 until November 2013, responsible for platform engineering, data center operations and IT supporting the company's global customer base. From 1996 until 2011, he worked at Microsoft Corporation, including most recently as the corporate vice president, commerce division, in 2011 and the general manager and corporate vice president, online services division, from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Taneja served on the board of directors of Ellie Mae from June 2015 until April 2019.

Mr. Taneja holds a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University and an MBA from Washington State University.