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Stripe executives and team history

Major leadership appointments, role changes, and departures from Stripe's founding engineering team through its current executive organization.

2026

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  1. executives and team

    Eileen O'Mara becomes vice chair and Tyler Bryson becomes chief revenue officer

    Stripe moved Eileen O'Mara from chief revenue officer to vice chair, with a remit spanning long-range partnerships, strategic investments, and the company's global footprint. Tyler Bryson, who had joined Stripe in 2025 after more than two decades at Microsoft, succeeded her as chief revenue officer.

    Payment volume during O'Mara's CRO tenure
    $1.9 trillion · Stripe said annual payment volume had nearly doubled during her tenure as CRO.

    StripeStripe

2025

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    Rahul Patil leaves Stripe to become Anthropic's chief technology officer

    Anthropic appointed Rahul Patil as chief technology officer after his tenure in the same role at Stripe. His departure ended a five-year period at Stripe that included leading engineering and succeeding David Singleton as CTO in 2024.

    Anthropic

2024

2 events
  1. executives and teamreported

    Rahul Patil succeeds David Singleton as chief technology officer

    Stripe promoted Rahul Patil from head of engineering to chief technology officer. David Singleton, who had led engineering since 2017 and later served as CTO, left after seven years to start a new company.

    Finance MagnatesAnthropic

  2. executives and teamreported

    Rob McIntosh becomes chief people officer

    After serving in the role on an interim basis, Rob McIntosh became Stripe's chief people officer while continuing to lead corporate development. The combined remit joined workforce leadership with the team responsible for acquisitions and strategic transactions.

    Date basis
    The Org reports May 2024, but Stripe's leadership page confirms the role without an appointment month; this record therefore uses year precision.

    The OrgStripe

2023

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  1. executives and team

    Steffan Tomlinson joins as chief financial officer

    Stripe appointed Steffan Tomlinson chief financial officer. He brought public-company finance experience from Confluent and Palo Alto Networks, along with earlier operating experience at Google Cloud.

    StripeStripe

  2. executives and teamCFO transition completed in April 2023

    Dhivya Suryadevara steps down as Will Gaybrick takes a broader president role

    Dhivya Suryadevara announced that she would leave the CFO role to attend to family matters, remaining through April for the transition. Stripe elevated Will Gaybrick to president of product and business, while John Collison assumed oversight of finance during the CFO search.

    AxiosBloomberg Law

  3. executives and teamAppointment reported as fall 2023reported

    Eileen O'Mara succeeds Mike Clayville as chief revenue officer

    Stripe named Eileen O'Mara chief revenue officer after she had led international operations and served as head of EMEA. Mike Clayville moved from CRO into a short-lived chief customer officer role and departed Stripe in early 2024.

    The InformationStripe

2022

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  1. executives and teamreported

    Jeff Titterton becomes chief marketing officer

    Stripe appointed Jeff Titterton chief marketing officer after his tenure as Zendesk's chief operating officer. His remit placed global marketing and brand leadership under an executive with prior product and operating experience.

    U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionStripe

2021

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  1. executives and team

    Claire Hughes Johnson steps back from the chief operating officer role

    After more than six years as chief operating officer, Claire Hughes Johnson moved out of day-to-day operations and remained a corporate officer and adviser. The transition redistributed responsibilities across Stripe's expanding executive group rather than immediately naming a direct COO successor.

    ForbesYale School of ManagementThe Information

2020

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  1. executives and team

    Stripe adds Dhivya Suryadevara, Mike Clayville, and Trish Walsh to senior leadership

    Stripe recruited former General Motors CFO Dhivya Suryadevara as chief financial officer, former AWS executive Mike Clayville as chief revenue officer, and Trish Walsh as general counsel. The appointments added public-company finance, enterprise sales, and legal leadership as the workforce approached 2,800.

    Stripe workforce
    About 2,800 · Workforce figure disclosed in Stripe's CFO appointment announcement.

    StripeStripeBloomberg Law

2017

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  1. executives and teamreported

    David Singleton joins to lead engineering

    Stripe hired Google engineering vice president David Singleton to lead engineering. Singleton had overseen Android Wear and Google Fit, and joined as Stripe's headcount approached 1,000 and its engineering organization moved into a new stage of scale.

    Approximate workforce
    Nearly 1,000

    Axios

2015

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  1. executives and teamreported

    Will Gaybrick becomes Stripe's first chief financial officer

    Stripe hired Thrive Capital general partner Will Gaybrick as its first chief financial officer. His background combined software engineering, investing, and finance, and he later expanded into product and business leadership.

    Finance team at appointment
    About 15 people · Contemporaneous reporting on the appointment.

    Silicon Valley Business JournalPYMNTS

2014

2 events
  1. executives and teamreported

    Claire Hughes Johnson joins as chief operating officer

    Stripe recruited longtime Google executive Claire Hughes Johnson as chief operating officer late in 2014. She became the principal operating leader alongside the Collison brothers and helped build the organizational systems for Stripe's international and workforce expansion.

    Yale School of ManagementInc.

  2. executives and team

    Greg Brockman defines the CTO role and Marc Hedlund takes engineering management

    Early engineer Greg Brockman had become Stripe's first chief technology officer by roughly 2013, but found that the title obscured several different jobs. By 2014 he had recruited Marc Hedlund as vice president of engineering and handed over line management while retaining responsibility for technical direction and key systems.

    Greg Brockman's focus
    Technical direction, critical systems, recruiting, and organizational leverage rather than all engineering management.
    Marc Hedlund's focus
    Engineering line management, including one-to-ones and team execution.

    Greg Brockman