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Dee Hock, a banker with a junior college degree who shaped the Visa credit card into a global financial behemoth, died on July 16 at his home in Olympia, Wash. He was 93. His son David confirmed...

Dee Hock, Visa’s Founder and CEO Emeritus, is not a household name beyond the world of financial services. Yet, in many ways, his impact and influence surpass that of almost any other leader in the last half century. The list of visionaries who have the ability to look beyond the horizon and imagine a world that doesn’t yet exist is ...

Dee Hock, Who Made Visa a Global Payments Leader, Has Died at Age 93 The executive loathed bureaucracy and tried to create a decentralized organization giving employees freedom to test their own...

Dee Hock Educational, Stupid, Intelligent 81 Copy quote Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct.

Dee W. Hock FOUNDER AND CEO EMERITUS VISA USA AND VISA INTERNATIONAL, NOW VISA INC . Born March 21, 1929, in North Ogden, Utah. September 1947 to June 1949. Weber College, Ogden Utah. September 22, 1949. Married Ferol Delors Cragun in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1949 to 1952. Branch Manager, Pacific Finance, Ogden Utah. 1952 to 1953.

Visa credit card association founder Dee Hock is a world-leading expert in payment systems. While an official in 1968 at a local bank in Washington State franchised by Bank of America to issue BankAmericard, Hock became chairman on a committee to create what would become Visa in 1976. Hock is open-minded and outspoken.

I n 1965, a 36-year-old financial salesman named Dee Hock found himself in rainy Seattle, unemployed, depressed, with three young kids while his wife pursued a long-overdue college degree. He had worked for 16 years in various nonbank financial companies across the West Coast and had no fire for another move.

The emergence of the credit card — that ubiquitous payment instrument — was no sure bet back in the late 1960s when, Hock, serving as vice president and general manager and chairman of the...