Management Team
Elizabeth Buse
Global Head of Product
Elizabeth Buse is the global head of product for Visa Inc., with responsibility for all aspects of product strategy and development in consumer and business products, as well as platform development and commercial information management. She also oversees processing products such as Debit Processing Services (DPS) and driving the growth of these services worldwide. She is accountable for the global interoperability of Visa’s products and services; developing new channel solutions and technology support; building alliances and solutions for new products, technologies, platforms and market segment penetration; and product analytics.
Previously, Buse was executive vice president of product development and management for Visa U.S.A., where she was responsible for the product development cycle — research, product innovation, new product development and product deployment — and for managing Visa U.S.A.’s consumer, small business and commercial products.
Prior to joining Visa U.S.A. in 1998, she served as vice president of strategic initiatives for the Electronic Funds Division of First Data Corporation (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 M.B.A. 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 B.A. in Spanish linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.