Elizabeth Buse
Global Head of Product
VISA, Inc.
Elizabeth Buse is Global Head of Product Development and Innovation for Visa Inc. She is responsible for the product development cycle-research, product innovation, new product development, and product deployment-and for management of Visa's consumer, small business, and commercial products.
Prior to joining Visa in 1998, she served as vice president, Strategic Initiatives, for the Electronic Funds Division of First Data Corp. (FDC). Before FDC, Buse was a senior engagement manager at Windermere Associates, a management consulting firm focused on developing strategies for corporations facing intensely competitive industries.
Buse received her master's degree in business administration from the Haas School at the University of California Berkeley. She was a graduate fellow in Spanish Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. She received her bachelor's degree in Spanish Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.