Kelly Mahon Tullier to Join as Executive Vice President and Deputy
General Counsel in June — Transition to General Counsel October 1; Ellen
Richey to Become Vice Chairman October 1
FOSTER CITY, Calif - Friday, April 11th 2014 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS
WIRE) Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) today announced that Kelly Mahon Tullier will
join the company as Executive Vice President and Deputy General
Counsel, effective June 16. She will also serve as a member of the
company’s Executive Committee. Ms. Tullier will transition to the role
of Executive Vice President and General Counsel on October 1, 2014. She
joins Visa from PepsiCo, Inc., where she was the Senior Vice President
and Deputy General Counsel.
Ellen Richey, Chief Legal Officer,
Chief Risk Officer, and member of the Executive Committee will continue
in those roles through September 30, when she will become Vice Chairman –
Risk and Public Policy. The Chief Risk Officer and the Chief Audit
Executive will report directly to Ms. Richey. Ms. Richey will also lead a
newly created function responsible for Public Policy at Visa, which
will include ensuring that Visa continues to drive the future of payment
security, being our voice with legislators, regulators and clients
globally regarding payment system security, and other similar
initiatives combining business and policy issues of strategic importance
to Visa. She will also be responsible for coordinating global crisis
management at the executive level.
“We are thrilled to have Kelly
join the Visa team and to create the opportunity for Ellen to guide us
through this critical time in the evolution of the payment system,” said
Charlie Scharf, Visa’s CEO. “Kelly’s extensive global and broad
leadership experience will be a great complement to our outstanding
legal team.”
“I have extraordinary respect for Ellen,” Charlie
added. “She has helped Visa navigate through many complex issues in her
Legal and Risk roles. Her deep expertise and judgment, both at Visa and
elsewhere, are invaluable and make her the ideal person to lead global
risk management and help us further develop our public policy
strategies.”
Ms. Tullier has been the PepsiCo, Inc. Senior Vice
President and Deputy General Counsel, managing the global legal teams
supporting the businesses around the world, and centralized teams
responsible for mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property,
regulatory, litigation, environmental, and procurement legal work. Prior
to that role, she was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for
PepsiCo’s Asia, Middle East & Africa Sector, based in Dubai, where
she managed legal issues in over 70 countries, including the important
growth markets of China and India. Prior to that, she was Vice President
and General Counsel at Frito-Lay, Inc., with responsibility for a wide
range of legal, policy and compliance issues. Earlier in her career, she
was an associate at Baker Botts LLP. Ms. Tullier received a B.A. from
Louisiana State University and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell
Law School. She also served as law clerk to the Honorable Sidney A.
Fitzwater, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas.
Prior
to joining Visa Inc., Ms. Richey worked at Washington Mutual Inc. as
Senior Vice President of Enterprise Risk Management and Executive Vice
President of Cards Services, from October 2005 to June 2006. Before
that, she served as Vice Chairman of Providian Financial Corporation,
where she had responsibility for enterprise risk management, legal and
regulatory affairs, corporate governance and corporate relations, as
well as the compliance and audit functions of the company. Earlier in
her career, Ms. Richey was a Partner in the San Francisco law firm
Farella, Brown & Martel, where she specialized in corporate, real
estate and financial institution matters. Ms. Richey received a B.A. in
Linguistics and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University and a J.D.
from Stanford Law School. She also served as a law clerk for Judge
Charles B. Renfrew of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District
of California and for Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., of the
United States Supreme Court.
About Visa Inc.: Visa is a global
payments technology company that connects consumers, businesses,
financial institutions, and governments in more than 200 countries and
territories to fast, secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate
one of the world’s most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that
is capable of handling more than 30,000 transaction messages a second,
with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for merchants.
Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend credit or set rates
and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations, however, enable its
financial institution customers to offer consumers more choices: pay now
with debit, ahead of time with prepaid or later with credit products.
For more information, visit corporate.visa.com.
Contacts
Visa Inc.
Rosetta Jones, +1 704-444-3815
rjones@visa.com
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