Leonardo J. Collado Appointed as General Manager of Pismo
San Francisco, March 05, 2026 – Visa (NYSE: V) today announced the appointment of Leonardo J. Collado as General Manager of Pismo, effective April 1, 2026. Collado, currently Senior Vice President at Visa and Head of Value-Added Services for Latin America and the Caribbean, brings more than 25 years of payments industry experience to the role, furthering Pismo's mission to deliver cutting-edge processing solutions for banks, fintechs, and financial institutions around the world. He succeeds Vishal Dalal, who has served as General Manager of Pismo since 2021 and has decided to leave Visa to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity.
"We are thrilled to welcome Leo to the Pismo team — his deep payments expertise and firsthand experience scaling platform capabilities across Latin America and beyond make him the ideal leader to take Pismo into its next chapter of global growth,” said Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore, Senior Vice President, Issuer Solutions at Visa. “At the same time, we want to recognize Vishal's invaluable contributions to Pismo over the past several years. His vision and leadership have been instrumental in shaping the business, and we wish him success in his next venture."
Since Visa's acquisition of Pismo in 2024, the business has expanded from five countries to more than 20 and has signed agreements with several leading global banks. Pismo has become an important growth engine for Visa, integrating Visa and VAS products across multiple client engagements and delivering measurable value to financial institutions around the world.