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Our executive team

Jason Gardner

Founder and CEO

Tripp Faix

Chief Financial Officer

Vidya Peters

Chief Marketing Officer

Kevin Doerr

Chief Product Officer

Lori McAdams

Chief People Officer

Seth Weissman

Chief Legal Officer

Brian Kieley

SVP of Program Management

Renata Caine

SVP of International,
Strategy, and Planning

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Jason Gardner

Founder and CEO

Jason Gardner is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Marqeta, Inc. Under his leadership, Marqeta’s mission is to become the global standard for modern card issuing, empowering some of the world’s most innovative companies to bring game-changing payment card products into the world. In 2020, Jason was named an E&Y Entrepreneur Of The Year and one of the Most Admired CEOs by the San Francisco Business Times. Marqeta has been named one of Forbes’ Fintech 50 and on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list.

Marqeta is Jason’s third company. He co-founded PropertyBridge, which became the leading rent and lease-related payment and transaction integration platform for multifamily real estate. PropertyBridge was acquired by MoneyGram International (MGI) in 2007. Before PropertyBridge, he founded Vertical Think, an IT management company that worked with start-ups and larger organizations.

I founded Marqeta to democratize innovation by enabling any company — a brand new startup or the most established enterprise — to build on the shoulders of our modern card issuing platform without worrying about the complexity of payments infrastructure.

Jason grew up in New Jersey, where he had numerous businesses that included making and selling tie-dyed T-shirts. After college and a stint with Senator John McCain’s office, Jason made it to California, where he began to pursue his passion for technology. Jason earned a Political Science degree from Arizona State University.

Tripp Faix

Chief Financial Officer

Tripp serves as Marqeta’s chief financial officer and leads the financial planning, accounting, and settlement functions at the company. Tripp has over 15 years of experience in finance, restructuring, investment banking, and consulting, including five years as a finance executive within both the FP&A and M&A divisions at Intuit.

Marqeta is a customer-driven company, and finance delivers critical services that enable our customers and partners to accelerate new possibilities to the marketplace.

Prior to joining Marqeta, Tripp was the finance leader for Intuit’s Services Division that delivered payments, payroll, and loans to small businesses and self-employed customers globally. In addition, within Intuit’s M&A division, he executed acquisitions, divestitures, and minority investment transactions in a variety of industries including payments. Prior to Intuit, Tripp worked at the Blackstone Group within the restructuring division and executed a variety of transactions within the financial services, oil & gas, and real estate sectors including chapter 11, out-of-court restructurings, M&A, debt, and equity. In addition, Tripp was an associate at Bear Stearns in their investment banking division and executed a number of M&A, debt, and equity transactions. Prior to Bear Stearns, Tripp was an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and was the recipient of Booz Allen Hamilton’s Professional Excellence Award.

Tripp holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Vidya Peters

Chief Marketing Officer

Vidya Peters is Marqeta’s chief marketing officer, responsible for the company’s global marketing efforts. She drives marketing strategy and execution including brand, PR, corporate marketing, product marketing, events, and demand generation.

Vidya joined Marqeta from MuleSoft where she led their 100+ person global marketing team to establish MuleSoft as a category creator with an integrated go-to-market strategy across product, field, and demand generation. She helped scale the business from pre-IPO to one of the most successful and fastest growing public enterprise software companies and later one of the most significant enterprise acquisitions.

When you think about the most disruptive innovations today — Uber, Square, Instacart, CashApp, and Afterpay — payments is at the heart of their innovation, and we are proud to power them.

Before MuleSoft, Vidya held a number of leadership roles at Intuit and was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company. She earned her MPA in public administration from Harvard University, an MBA in marketing and finance from the Kellogg School of Management, and a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Northwestern University. She is a member of the Northwestern University Council of 100, a group of highly successful female alumnae committed to furthering the advancement of Northwestern alums and students throughout their careers.

Kevin Doerr

Chief Product Officer

Kevin Doerr is Marqeta’s chief product officer, leading the company’s rapidly growing product and engineering teams. He’s a seasoned technology executive who brings decades of industry experience to Marqeta, having led large, cross-functional teams and guided everything from product development to technical operations.

We stand proudly behind the world’s great teams and products that define the future of money, and we deliver the platform, tools, and services that deliver that future.

Kevin joined Marqeta from GoDaddy, where he led an international team of more than 400 as senior vice president and general manager of domains and security. His team was responsible for protecting and managing more than 75 million domains and running the supporting DNS infrastructure. His team also developed applications in search, DNS management, web and mobile-based auction, and brokerage services. He was also responsible for acquiring and integrating several acquisitions. Prior to GoDaddy, Kevin co-founded Archimedes Labs in 2010, an incubation firm focused on consumer mobile services, and served in a variety of leadership roles at The Weather Channel, Yahoo!, and Microsoft where he focused on digital platforms and new product incubation.

Kevin studied computer science at Suffolk University in Boston and lives with his family in Palo Alto.

Lori McAdams

Chief People Officer

Lori McAdams is Marqeta’s chief people officer, responsible for managing all aspects of the company’s people and facilities operations, including recruiting, human resources, people operations, workplace experience, and real estate.

Lori joined Marqeta from Lending Home where she was senior vice president of people, leading several key initiatives for the company, solidifying the company mission, and spearheading the opening of a second domestic office in Pittsburgh. Before that Lori spent three decades working in the entertainment industry, with leadership roles at Lucasfilm and Electronic Arts. She also spent 14 years with Pixar as vice president of human resources and administration. As a people leader in multiple industries, Lori has focused on growing out and scaling large organizations, building out full-stack HR functions, and leading management and leadership development programs to ensure organizational readiness.

Marqeta invests in talented people who are empowered to take risks and push boundaries towards the common goal of serving the world’s innovators.

Lori is a graduate of California State University, Chico where she received her Bachelor of Arts in communications. In 2018, Lori was honored as the Distinguished Alumna from the College of Communication & Education. She also received a Master of Arts in human resources and organizational development from the University of San Francisco. She lives in Lafayette with her husband and has three adult children and two grandchildren.

Seth Weissman

Chief Legal Officer

In his role as chief legal officer, Seth is responsible for overseeing Marqeta’s worldwide legal and regulatory affairs.

Seth brings over 25 years of experience representing companies at all stages: from startup through public listing in corporate governance, compliance and risk management, litigation, securities regulation, and intellectual property. Most recently, Seth led SolarCity’s legal, compliance, and risk management groups while taking the company public in 2012.

Marqeta empowers exceptional people — our partners, customers, and our employees — to transform how we transact.

Seth earned his bachelor’s degree in political science at Pennsylvania State University and earned a law degree, with honors, at Boston University School of Law.

Brian Kieley

SVP of Program Management

As the head of program management at Marqeta, Brian Kieley is responsible for customer implementation and global relationships with payment card networks, partner banks, and vendors.

At Marqeta, we strive to make the complex simple, allowing our customers to integrate modern card issuing quickly, reliably, and at scale.

Prior to joining Marqeta, Brian was the COO at Rêv Worldwide, a prepaid card program manager and processor focusing on global travelers. Brian also spent a number of years at Visa in a variety of customer service, operations, and product development roles, finishing as the global head of client support services responsible for all bank and merchant customers globally and leading Visa’s consumer-facing call center.

Brian grew up in Ottawa, Canada where he attended Carleton University.

Renata Caine

SVP of International, Strategy, and Planning

Renata serves as Marqeta’s Senior Vice President leading our International business and our global Corporate Strategy & Planning practice. Renata is responsible for setting the company’s long term vision and goals. She is managing the company’s rapidly scaling business operations and guides its transformation into a truly global enterprise.

Renata first joined Marqeta to grow our international footprint. Her teams have carried Marqeta into multiple regions, bringing payment expertise into highly regulated and complex regional landscapes. Renata began her journey as a “payments nerd” with WEX, Inc, where she had a reputation for building relationships based on her deep knowledge of global issuing markets and her desire to empower organizations through partnership.

At Marqeta, we are redefining payments. Our platform and tools are empowering the global movement of money.

Renata takes pride in building teams and has been a successful mentor throughout her career. Renata holds a BA from the University of Minnesota in Psychology.