David Cramer
David Cramer is a retired payments executive (GE Capital, JPMorgan Chase, and Visa), now focusing on executive coaching, leader development, FinTech advisory and Talent and Compensation board work. He is also a member of Cohort 75 of the Certificate in Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership and a certified Hogan Personality Assessment practitioner. As CEO of his consultancy, Heightened Leadership, LLC, he works with senior executives to help unlock their potential and create optimal leadership and personal performance.
Previously, Cramer was senior vice president, head of People for North America, and numerous other global business functions at Visa, Inc. He and his teams were responsible for partnering with leaders to deliver Visa’s business objectives with a people lens: through attracting top talent, investing in employee growth and career development, identifying and preparing future leaders, and optimizing organizational design to drive the business forward.
Prior to his role leading the People Team, he oversaw all activities related to Visa’s relationships with its large financial institution clients in the United States. Also in his career at Visa, he was both senior vice president of sales and integrated solutions and senior vice president of commercial products, where he oversaw product development strategies, business development strategies, and deployment of Visa’s commercial payment products among financial institutions and organizations in the public and private sectors.
Before joining Visa in 2003, Cramer held various roles in sales, marketing, and business development for JPMorgan Chase, GE Capital, and Citicorp. He received his bachelor’s degree in politics from Ithaca College. He is active in the Breakthrough T1D, formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Cramer is connected to the Jepson School through his children. His son, Alex, '11, and daughter, Molly, '14, were both Jepson students and presidents of the Jepson Student Government Association (JSGA). Daughter-in-law, Melissa Collins Cramer, '11, was also a Jepson student and president of JSGA immediately following Alex’s term, as Alex graduated a semester early.