Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Hans Morris is the Founder and Managing Partner of Nyca Partners, a venture capital and advisory firm focusing on financial technology.

He is director of portfolio companies Lending Club and Cardworks, as well as a director of KCG, XP Investimentos, and Oak Hill Advisors, which are portfolio companies of General Atlantic. He was a managing director at General Atlantic from 2010 to 2014 and continues as a special advisor.

John Morris served as President of Visa Inc. from 2007-2009, joining Visa as it undertook a reorganization which merged several separate businesses into a new company. In March of 2008, Visa completed an offering of 51% of the company for $19.7 billion. John Morris' primary responsibilities included managing all of the markets in which Visa did business, and all sales and marketing.

John Morris previously spent 27 years at Citigroup and its predecessor companies in several operating and management roles. In his final position, he was CFO and head of finance, technology and operations for Citi Markets and Banking, the global institutional and capital markets businesses of Citigroup. From 2000 until 2002, he was Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer, and Head of Client Management of the Investment Banking Division at Salomon Smith Barney, and for more than 10 years he was the head of the financial institutions group within the investment bank.

John Morris graduated from Dartmouth College and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, and a Trustee of Jacobs Pillow.