Brian Weiner is the Vice President and Head of Product for Visa Canada. His organization is responsible for the development and rollout of Visa’s full Canadian product suite, including its credit, debit, and prepaid products, as well as its expanding array of digital products and capabilities, transit solutions, open banking and real-time payments initiatives. Brian also plays an active role in providing guidance and oversight to Visa’s interchange function, and support to its communications and government engagement functions as well.
Brian has been an active member of Visa’s leadership team since 2010, a decade that is widely viewed as one of the most dynamic and transformational times in the history of the industry in Canada. Through that time, Brian has helped to shape the country’s secular shift to electronic payments, making Canada one of the most cashless economies in the world. He has been recognized for his work as a global winner of Visa’s Go Beyond program and as a finalist for the North America Leadership Award.
Looking ahead, Brian and his team are focused on re-imagining the future of payments in collaboration with many partners across the payments ecosystem in Canada and around the world.
Brian was the founder of Visa Canada’s Let’s Make a Difference committee which promotes community involvement, and he recently served as the Chair of Visa’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee. In addition, Brian is a global faculty member of Visa University where he has taught courses on Inclusive Leadership to hundreds of colleagues throughout North America and beyond. In recognition of his work promoting the advancement of women, Brian was chosen to represent Visa at a global women’s conference in 2020. He’s also been involved in the community as a Board member of both the Leo Baeck Day School and Jewish Family and Child Services, an Honorary Chair of the Rexall OneWalk to Conquer Cancer benefitting the Princess Margaret Hospital, and he had the pleasure of working as a Big Brother.
Brian has been in the Canadian financial services industry since 1997. He holds an MBA (Accounting) from the Schulich School of Business, a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from Carleton University, and he has completed executive courses at Harvard, Cambridge, and INSEAD. Prior to Visa, Brian worked at TD Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and IBM.
