Maria Elisa Vélez

Maria Elisa Vélez currently serves as the Head of Brand Creative for the Global Team at Visa since June 2025. Prior to this role, Maria served as the Sr Manager Director at DoorDash from January 2023 to July 2025, focusing on marketing strategy across regional and global business. Maria's experience also includes positions at DDB, where Maria was the Global Business Operations Lead from November 2016 to March 2023, and at Leo Burnett, initially as Global Segment Lead EVP and later as Global Director from January 2015 to September 2018. In Brazil, Maria worked as the Regional Director at Leo Burnett Brazil from March 2010 to January 2016, emphasizing team leadership and business development throughout these roles. Maria holds executive education from Kellogg and completed a program at Stanford University in May 2021.