- 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.
