Vasant Prabhu retired as Vice Chairman & CFO of Visa,Inc in September, 2023. He had been Vice Chairman since 2019, and CFO since 2015. Vasant has been CFO at several large US public companies spanning multiple industries including, financial technology, media, travel, consumer retail and consumer goods. He was EVP & CFO of NBC Universal (2014-2015), Vice Chairman & CFO at Starwood Hotels & Resorts (2004-2014), EVP & CFO, President e-commerce at Safeway (2000-2004)
From 1998-2000, Vasant was President of the Information & Media Group at The McGraw-Hill Companies. He was CFO of various divisions of PepsiCo (1992-1998), including Pepsi-Cola International and PepsiCo Restaurants International. His tenure at PepsiCo included stints overseas in Europe and Latin America. He started his career at Booz, Allen & Hamilton(1983-1992) where he was a Partner serving media and consumer goods companies.
Vasant is a member of the Board of Directors at Delta Airlines and Intuit. He is on the Board of Kenvue, Johnson & Johnson’s Consumer Health spin-off, where he Chairs the Audit Committee. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution. In the past, Vasant has served on the Boards of Mattel and Knight Ridder, as well as a Trustee at The Nature Conservancy California and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
Vasant holds an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (India)
Vasant lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife Sumati and their dog Poppy.