Management Team
John Partridge
Chief Operating Officer
John Partridge is the chief operating officer (COO) of Visa Inc. As COO, he has day-to-day responsibility for five areas of the company's continuing business operations, with the global heads of the product, information and systems technology, operations, corporate relations, and customer service departments reporting into him.
Prior to this role, Partridge was Inovant's first president and chief executive officer. Under Partridge's leadership, Inovant developed a reputation for customer service. He led major efforts to reorganize Inovant, diversify the organization's corporate footprint to include remote development centers, create new centers of excellence for emerging technologies and e-commerce, and examine alternative processing approaches for the global marketplace.
Before joining Visa, Partridge was the senior vice president of program management and chief information officer for UNUM Corporation, a disability insurance company in Portland, Maine. At UNUM, Partridge had enterprise-wide responsibility for managing technological capability.
Before joining UNUM, Partridge managed all systems, operations and consumer banking for Banco de Credito del Peru in Lima. His earlier career included 10 years with Wells Fargo Bank. Partridge has a B.S. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.