John O’Rouke

John is an Altair Associate supporting clients with card payment processing needs. He has worked within financial services since 1989, spending the past 14 years working for Visa.

Expertise

Extensive experience in managing and developing partnerships in the Consumer Finance & Payments Industry with market leading organisations.

About John

John provides experience in engaging both Acquirers and Issuers in the card processing sector within Europe plus recent focus with Visa on managing infrastructure tenders for both Pay.UK and LINK in recent years in the UK.

His key focus has been supporting card processing activity in the UK, and he is a subject matter expert for Europe for ATM and single message processing.

Background

John has had strong financial services exposure across a spectrum of business activities, with his most recent employment with Visa in a role that worked with multiple business functions. The common theme has been the engagement of clients to support their business needs and provide guidance to them to achieve their goals.

Initially beginning his career in consumer banking, John has gained experience over time in business banking, card issuance and his last role was at the core of ‘card processing’ with the payment scheme.

His last role provided the ability to interact with a wide range of organisations who operated in moving money to facilitate payments for cardholders.

Recent projects included the focus on improving the quality of payments and data exchange with all parties.

Fun Facts

Outside of work, John enjoys regular spin cycling sessions and walking his golden retriever with his granddaughter. His biggest passion is being a supporter of Arsenal suffering the highs and lows over many seasons.