Alfred F. Kelly Jr.

Alfred Francis Kelly Jr. (born 1958) is an American business executive. Until February 2023, he was the chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Visa Inc., a global digital payments company. In October 2016, Kelly succeeded Charles W. Scharf as the CEO of Visa. In April 2019, Kelly was elected as the company's Chair of the Board while continuing to serve as Visa's CEO. Kelly serves on the Board of Directors of Catalyst and is chair of the board of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, as well as several entities in the Archdiocese of New York. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of New York Presbyterian Hospital and Boston College, where four of his five children have graduated. In 2020, Kelly was named a guardian for the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, which answers the call of Pope Francis to apply principles of morality to business and investment practices. Early life and education Kelly was born in 1958 in Bronxville, New York and raised in the Crestwood section of Yonkers (both in Westchester County). Kelly graduated from the Iona Preparatory School in 1976. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer and Information Science (Summa Cum Laude) in 1980 and an MBA with Honors in 1981, both from Iona College, a private Catholic college in New Rochelle, New York. He also served as an adjunct assistant professor at Iona and was a trustee for 13 years.