Ellen RICHEY

   

release time：2017-03-09 15:57:59  view count：120882  source：Boao Forum for Asia

Vice Chairman, Rick and Public Policy, Visa Inc.

Ellen Richey serves as vice chairman of risk and public policy. Richey leads risk management at Visa. She coordinates the company’s strategic policy initiatives and works with legislators, regulators and clients globally regarding payment system security and other issues of strategic importance to Visa. Richey is a member of Visa’s Executive Committee. Richey received The Most Influential Women Award from the San Francisco Business Times, and was named one of the Most Influential Women in Payments by PaymentsSource.

Prior to joining Visa, Richey worked at Washington Mutual Inc. as senior vice president of enterprise risk management and executive vice president of card services. Prior to that, she served as vice chairman of Providian Financial Corporation. Earlier in her career, Richey was a partner in the San Francisco law firm Farella, Braun & Martel.

Richey received a B.A. in Linguistics and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, and served as a law clerk for Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.