10 former Stripe payments leaders
These ten people led payments teams or payments work at Stripe and have since left the company. A reader can learn how payments work was run at a company like Stripe from people who did it there.
Professionals to explore
Cecil Ma
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Engineering Payments FinTech Domain · Stripe
Cecil Ma is a former Vice President of Engineering Payments FinTech Domain at Stripe, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and the profile highlight for that role describes the engineering organization behind Stripe's core payments platform. Cecil Ma was Director, Engineering Payments Platform & Cloud Infrastructure at Visa from 2021 to 2022 and Director there from 2016 to 2021.
Doug Meyer
LinkedInExperience: Product Lead, Payments AI and Insights · Stripe
Doug Meyer is a former Product Lead, Payments AI and Insights at Stripe, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and was Staff Technical Program Manager, Payments there from 2021 to 2022 and Product Operations Manager from 2019 to 2021. Doug Meyer has been Product Lead, Bank Payments at Plaid since 2026 and is based in New York.
Edward Moore
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of Sales - Payments · Stripe
Edward Moore is a former Global Head of Sales - Payments at Stripe, holding the role from 2023 to 2025, and was a Board Director of Stripe Payments Europe Limited over the years 2022 to 2025. Edward Moore has been Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at Payrails since 2025 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Gautam Nangia
LinkedInExperience: Product Lead, Terminal Global · Stripe
Gautam Nangia is a former Product Lead, Terminal Global at Stripe, holding the role from 2022 to 2025, and was Product Lead, Terminal there from 2025 to 2026, Product Lead, Terminal APAC from 2021 to 2022 and Product Manager, Cards from 2019 to 2021. Gautam Nangia worked in Business Operations at Stripe from 2016 to 2019 and is based in Singapore.
Joel Reich
LinkedInExperience: Product Lead for Card Issuing in EMEA · Stripe
Joel Reich is a former Product Lead for Card Issuing in EMEA at Stripe, holding the role from 2025 to 2026, and was VP Product @ JPMC at JPMorganChase from 2023 to 2025. Joel Reich was Product Lead - Consumer Experience at 10x Banking from 2021 to 2023 and is based in London.
Kathy Porto Chang
LinkedInExperience: Product Lead · Stripe
Kathy Porto Chang is a former Product Lead at Stripe, holding the role from 2018 to 2026, and the profile highlight for that role describes leading product teams on several Stripe products across both SaaS and payments. Kathy Porto Chang was Group Product Manager at Twitter from 2017 to 2018 and is based in Palma, Spain.
Kim Neuwirth
LinkedInExperience: Head of Product, Issuing · Stripe
Kim Neuwirth is a former Head of Product, Issuing at Stripe, holding the role from 2021 to 2022, and was Product Manager, Issuing there from 2020 to 2021 and Head of Product, Connect Expansion from 2022 to 2025. Kim Neuwirth has been a Member of Technical Staff at Vercel since 2025 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Martin del Rosario
LinkedInExperience: Head of Global Payments Performance · Stripe
Martin del Rosario is a former Head of Global Payments Performance at Stripe, holding the role from 2020 to 2022, and worked in Global Partnerships there from 2019 to 2020. Martin del Rosario was Director, Global Head of Payments at Uber from 2022 to 2025 and has been Co-Founder and CEO of Portare since 2025.
Mike Marom
LinkedInExperience: Head of Banks & Networks Partnerships, Partner Engineering & Operations · Stripe
Mike Marom is a former Head of Banks & Networks Partnerships, Partner Engineering & Operations at Stripe, holding the role from 2024 to 2025, and was Global Head of Partner Solutions (Engineering & Operations), Google Payments at Google from 2013 to 2022. Mike Marom has been Director of Partner Engineering, Meta FinTech at Meta since 2026.
Suzanne Xie
LinkedInExperience: Business Lead (GM) and Head of Product, B2B Payments · Stripe
Suzanne Xie is a former Business Lead (GM) and Head of Product, B2B Payments at Stripe, holding the role from 2021 to 2023, and was also Business Lead (GM), Invoicing there from 2020 to 2023. Suzanne Xie has been Co-Head of Ventures at Strider Capital since 2026 and was a Partner at Neo from 2023 to 2026.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since payments product, card issuing, in-person terminal, payment performance, engineering and bank and network partnership roles each saw a different part of payments. Check the years of their Stripe role and where they work now, because payment products and rules change quickly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How did you decide which payment methods and markets to support first?
- 02Which measures told you whether payment acceptance and performance were improving?
- 03What would you build first for payments at a younger company with a small team?
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