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Officer of Retail Financial Services at JPMorgan Chase & Co. since July 2004 and Chief Executive Officer of the retail division of Bank One Corporation
from May 2002 to July 2004. Prior to this, he was Chief Financial Officer/Executive Vice President at Bank One Corporation from 2000 to 2002, Chief
Financial Officer of the Corporate and Investment Bank division at Citigroup, Inc. from 1999 to 2000 and Chief Financial Officer at Salomon Smith Barney
and its predecessor company from 1995 to 1999. Mr. Scharf was also a director of Travelers Property Casualty Corporation from September 2002 to
September 2005. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The John Hopkins University and a Master of Business Administration degree from New York
University.
Segismundo Schulin-Zeuthen has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Schulin-Zeuthen served a director of Visa International from
July 2003 to October 2007 and a director of Inovant from February 2004 to October 2007. Mr. Schulin-Zeuthen served as a member of the board of directors
of Banco de Chile from May 1999 to March 2007 and was Chairman of the board of directors from May 1999 to March 2004. Previously, he was President
and Chief Executive Officer of Banco de Chile from 1987 to May 1999. He also is a director of Sonda S.A. He served as the Chairman of the board of
directors of Visa LAC from March 2003 to October 2007. Mr. Schulin-Zeuthen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Commercial Engineering from the
Universidad de Chile.
William Shanahan has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Shanahan was the President of Colgate-Palmolive Company from 1992
to September 2005. He is currently on the board of directors and audit committee of Diageo PLC, a premium drinks business with a collection of international
brands. He is a director of MSD Performance Group, a privately held U.S. Company, and is a Management Advisor to Value Act Capital of San Francisco. He
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from Dartmouth College.
John A. Swainson has served as a director of Visa Inc. since October 2007. Mr. Swainson served as a director of Visa U.S.A. from April 2006 to
October 2007. Since February 2005, Mr. Swainson has served as Chief Executive Officer of CA, Inc., an information technology management software
company, and he has served as President and a director of the company since November 2004. Prior to his joining CA, Mr. Swainson served as Vice President
of Worldwide Sales for IBM's Software Group from July 2004 to November 2004. Previously, he was General Manager of the Application Integration
Middleware division of IBM from 1997 to 2004. He also serves as a director of Cadence Design Systems, an electronic design automation technologies and
engineering services company. Mr. Swainson holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our directors and officers, and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent of our common stock, to
file initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership of our common stock and our other equity securities with the SEC. Based solely on our
review of the copies of such forms received by us and written representations from reporting persons, we believe that all of our officers and persons who
beneficially own more than ten percent of our common stock complied with all Section 16(a) filing requirements applicable to them with respect to
transactions during fiscal 2008.
Code of Ethics
Our Chief Executive Officer and senior financial officers, whom we refer to collectively as senior officers, are required to comply with the Code of
Business Conduct and Ethics and Code of Ethics for Senior Financial Officers adopted by our board of directors (the "Codes"). The Codes require the senior
officers to engage in honest and ethical conduct in performing their duties, provide guidelines for the
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