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Simon Khalaf

CEOMarqeta

Oakland, CA

Member Since June 2023

Skills

Mobile Devices
Start-ups
Product Management

About

Simon Khalaf is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and scaled operator with years of experience in Consumer tech, Fintech, Streaming Media, and Cloud Computing. Khalaf’s passion is to build, scale and distribute products that serve hundreds of millions of consumers and developers. Khalaf has demonstrated the ability to work with teams as small as a 4 people startup and as large as multi thousand strong and diverse teams spread across the globe and generating over 8B+ USD in revenues. Khalaf is a team builder and player always focused on attracting, mentoring and learning from top talent. Khalaf and his co-founders have built 4 companies from scratch and have taken their products from inception to market share leadership, generating hundreds of millions in revenues, 1.8B in shareholder value and 3.7x aggregate return to Institutional investors through an IPO and three M&A transactions. Khalaf resides in San Francisco, CA

Published content

Why fintech still has so far to go

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Despite a slow pace of innovation for large banks, consumers are showing demand for more efficient, accessible, and convenient methods for banking and payments.

How AI can lead to greater economic equity

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There’s an opportunity for generative AI to play a role in expanding access and driving a new standard for credit access in the years to come.

Building a better financial system for a modern workforce

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Embedded finance has the potential to revolutionize traditional banking and support workers in their pursuit of financial security, well-being, and economic empowerment.

Company details

Marqeta

Company bio

Marqeta brings speed and efficiency to card issuing and payment processing with the world's first open API platform. Our platform was built from the ground up to power an innovative payment experience for many of the apps and services you enjoy daily. Today, Marqeta has 800+ employees and operates globally in the US, UK, EU, Canada and the APAC region. We have extensive partnerships with multiple banks and card networks including Visa, Mastercard & Discover and our solutions are used by innovators in digital banking, lending, e-commerce, on-demand services and more. We are proud of our Oakland roots and strive to build a team as diverse as the markets we serve. Join us in reshaping the way payments are made.

Industry

Technology

Area of focus

Virtual and Physical Cards
Tokenization
On Demand Delivery

Company size

501 - 1,000

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