Geraldine is Vice President for Visa’s Tap to Phone Program and emerging Tap product offerings. Gerry’s team is helping to drive innovations in a way that allows merchants and consumers to pay and accept with Visa contactless payments directly on their NFC-enabled consumer mobile devices without the need for additional connected hardware. These developments address a growing opportunity to expand connected commerce into new and unaddressed segments with the next generation of software-based solutions.
Prior to joining the Global Product Team, Geraldine was Senior Director, Digital Solutions and Strategic Partnerships – Africa, Visa Inc. located in her birth city, Johannesburg, South Africa. In her pervious role she was responsible for product management and strategy in areas such as advanced digital payments, new technology, new channel and market segment deployments.
Before joining Visa almost 10 years ago, Geraldine managed special payments innovation implementations at Standard Bank’s Innovation company, Beyond Payments. During her tenure at Beyond Payments, Geraldine played an integral role in implementing new innovative mobile money and contactless programs.
Previously, after numerous business development and consulting roles in the retail, marketing and property industry, Geraldine headed up a business intelligence company for 10 years, CEO of Knowledge Factory, a Property Data and ICT company.