John Ainsworth

John Ainsworth, President and Chief Executive Officer

John Ainsworth serves as president and CEO of CULedger, a credit union-owned CUSO that focuses on delivering innovative applications on a global distributed ledger platform for credit unions. In this position, Ainsworth brings his wide breadth of expertise to develop and enhance CULedger’s growth strategy. He plays a vital role in its launch of innovative and game changing applications on a global distributed ledger platform for credit unions. Along with his executive team, Ainsworth will focus on the company’s capitalization, industry relationships and corporate development.

Prior to joining CU Ledger, he served as executive vice president of North America markets at MasterCard Worldwide, where he was responsible for managing the independent bank and credit union segments. He previously held the position of senior vice president of global accounts, where he managed business development activities for one of MasterCard’s largest and most complex global members including debit, RFID, prepaid, acquiring and commercial segments.

Ainsworth is a seasoned financial services executive whose background includes more than 30 years of product and sales management experience with major financial organizations, such as SunTrust Banks and Visa International. Having led and mentored sales forces specializing in strategic solution sales, he is credentialed with national recognized commercial sales programs such as Huthwaite and Miller Heiman.

Ainsworth attended the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University and American Institute for Banking.