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Jennifer Taylor joins Plaid as the company’s first president

  • Plaid, the open banking fintech, has appointed Jennifer Taylor as its first president.
  • Taylor, former Chief Product Officer at Cloudflare, brings extensive experience in leading product strategies at companies like Salesforce, Meta, and Adobe.
  • Plaid, founded in 2013, offers APIs that enable consumers to connect their bank accounts to various fintech services and make payments via open banking.
  • Taylor, who will oversee the tech and product teams, is seen as a valuable addition as Plaid aims to scale and potentially prepares for an initial public offering (IPO).
  • The company raised additional funding in a Series D extension in August 2021, following an initial Series D round earlier that year.
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Laura is a financial reporter, editor, and researcher with a particular interest in fintech innovation, capital markets, and the evolving global banking landscape.

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