Chief financial officer
Fiserv | Milwaukee
Under Robert Hau’s leadership as chief financial officer, Fiserv Inc. has grown in revenue from $5.5 billion in 2016 to over $19 billion in 2023. Hau was instrumental in the Milwaukee-based payments and financial services technology company’s acquisition of First Data Corporation in 2019, a $22 billion deal that put Fiserv among the world’s leading payment and financial technology providers. He also played a significant role in the company’s decision to move its global headquarters from Brookfield to a 170,000-square-foot space in downtown Milwaukee.
Hau has more than 35 years of experience in business and financial leadership roles, previously serving as CFO of TE Connectivity Ltd., a $12 billion global product technology company; and Lennox International Inc. He also spent 22 years at Honeywell International Inc. in a variety of financial and operations leadership roles, including serving as CFO of its aerospace business group, specialty materials business group and aerospace electronic systems unit.
Hau is a member of the board of directors of OpenText and serves on the board of Milwaukee-based nonprofit SHARP Literacy. He is also a member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, a director of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and a member of the President’s Advisory Council and Department of Finance Advisory Board at Marquette University, his alma mater. In 2023, he was named Marquette’s College of Business Administration Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.
Education: Bachelor’s, Marquette University; master’s, USC Marshall School of Business
