Thursday, September 3, 2015

Charles Scharf: Visa CEO

Charles “Charlie” Scharf earned a BA degree from John Hopkins University and an MBA from New York University.  He started his career in the late 1980s at Commercial Credit. Charlie held various financial roles with Travelers from 1987 to 1995. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Smith Barney (now Citigroup Global Markets Holding Inc.) from 1995 to 1997. Charlie then served as Chief Financial Officer of Salomon Smith Barney Inc. from 1997 to 1999. Then he served as Chief Financial Officer of the Corporate and Investment Bank Group of Citigroup from 1999 to 2000.
Charlie served as Chief Financial Officer/Executive Vice President of Banc One Corporation from June 12, 2000, until 2002. Then he was Chief Executive Officer of Retail Banking from May 2002 to July 2004 and also served as its President of Retail Banking. 
He was the CEO of Retail Financial Services of JPMorgan Chase & Co. from July 2004 until June 2011. In November 1, 2013, Charlie became the Chief Executive Officer of Visa Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Microsoft.

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