About Jill Docherty

Jill Docherty is an exceptional, commercially oriented and results driven payment executive. She has deep knowledge and experience across traditional payment flows plus cross border, real time payments. She is a global citizen, having worked across three continents, she has the first-hand ability of enabling and executing solutions against specific customer priorities. She is also a very quick learner who removes complexity; she grasps the problem statement and seamlessly translates that into the required product or solution. She has a track record of building influence and trust with her colleagues, customers, and team members. Her authentic leadership approach alongside her robust communicative abilities are standout qualities that build confidence from those around her, allowing her ongoing success of achieving the required outcomes. A focused, results driven individual who has launched and managed many diverse brands and businesses. Jill Docherty, Specialties: Building and developing a high performing team Results and outcome oriented Global experience; emerging and mature markets Card payments & technology Consumer centricity Jill Docherty is the Head of Business Development, UK & Ireland, at Visa, the global payments technology company. Jill is responsible for new business development, deployment, and client engagement. In this role, she has end-to-end responsibility for delivering the full range of the Visa portfolio to different customers – including strategic growth issuers, commercial offerings, and the FinTech sector. Prior to joining Visa in March 2018, Jill spent over ten years and held a number of senior roles at Mastercard across Africa, Asia and Europe within sales, marketing and product functions. Earlier in her career, Jill held various board level roles at global marketing agencies, Grey Worldwide and McCann; working with clients such as Visa, Procter and Gamble, GlaxoSmithKline, General Motors, Nestle and L’Oreal. Jill is a true global citizen, she was born in England and raised in South Africa and she graduated with a Marketing degree from Durban University of Technology.