category:
  id: executives-and-team
  label: Executives and team
  description: Major leadership appointments, role changes, and departures from Stripe's founding engineering team through its current executive organization.
  order: 2
events:
  - id: executives-omara-vice-chair-bryson-cro
    date: 2026-06-22
    date_precision: day
    title: Eileen O'Mara becomes vice chair and Tyler Bryson becomes chief revenue officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Eileen O'Mara
      - Tyler Bryson
      - Patrick Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Microsoft
    metrics:
      - label: Payment volume during O'Mara's CRO tenure
        value: $1.9 trillion
        context: Stripe said annual payment volume had nearly doubled during her tenure as CRO.
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - revenue
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-2fd62540f30c44c011bd
      - source-543d9c2bdd12031667b2
  - id: executives-rahul-patil-leaves-for-anthropic
    date: 2025-10-07
    date_precision: day
    title: Rahul Patil leaves Stripe to become Anthropic's chief technology officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Rahul Patil
      - David Singleton
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Anthropic
    tags:
      - executive-departure
      - technology
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-669b3a2f6e0c3fc4ddcc
  - id: executives-patil-succeeds-singleton-as-cto
    date: 2024-08-27
    date_precision: day
    title: Rahul Patil succeeds David Singleton as chief technology officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - Rahul Patil
      - David Singleton
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - executive-departure
      - technology
    source_ids:
      - source-e4fb11716a2dc5d77acc
      - source-669b3a2f6e0c3fc4ddcc
  - id: executives-rob-mcintosh-becomes-chief-people-officer
    date: "2024"
    date_precision: year
    title: Rob McIntosh becomes chief people officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - Rob McIntosh
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    details:
      - label: Date basis
        value: The Org reports May 2024, but Stripe's leadership page confirms the role without an appointment month; this record therefore uses year precision.
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - people
      - corporate-development
    source_ids:
      - source-2ea091d27b73089c7e1b
      - source-543d9c2bdd12031667b2
  - id: executives-steffan-tomlinson-joins-as-cfo
    date: 2023-08-02
    date_precision: day
    title: Steffan Tomlinson joins as chief financial officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Steffan Tomlinson
      - Patrick Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Confluent
      - Palo Alto Networks
      - Google Cloud
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - finance
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-b947eefa88f90b4893bf
      - source-543d9c2bdd12031667b2
  - id: executives-dhivya-suryadevara-steps-down
    date: 2023-02-03
    date_precision: day
    title: Dhivya Suryadevara steps down as Will Gaybrick takes a broader president role
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Dhivya Suryadevara
      - Will Gaybrick
      - John Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    status: CFO transition completed in April 2023
    tags:
      - executive-departure
      - executive-appointment
      - finance
    source_ids:
      - source-fd18a61ea8f9acdbc7fd
      - source-2492e9cbea9cef718468
  - id: executives-eileen-omara-succeeds-mike-clayville-as-cro
    date: "2023"
    date_precision: year
    title: Eileen O'Mara succeeds Mike Clayville as chief revenue officer
    status: Appointment reported as fall 2023
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - Eileen O'Mara
      - Mike Clayville
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - executive-departure
      - revenue
    source_ids:
      - source-bf929613bb5894a9b823
      - source-2fd62540f30c44c011bd
  - id: executives-jeff-titterton-becomes-cmo
    date: 2022-11
    date_precision: month
    title: Jeff Titterton becomes chief marketing officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - Jeff Titterton
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Zendesk
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - marketing
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-7c2526ca8051f9cf2471
      - source-543d9c2bdd12031667b2
  - id: executives-claire-hughes-johnson-steps-back
    date: 2021-04
    date_precision: month
    title: Claire Hughes Johnson steps back from the chief operating officer role
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Claire Hughes Johnson
      - Patrick Collison
      - John Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    tags:
      - executive-transition
      - operations
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-8421431556029a2eaf89
      - source-d803d4a16b3a102cb23d
      - source-85b1d0e6c404677bfd35
  - id: executives-csuite-adds-suryadevara-clayville-walsh
    date: 2020-08-11
    date_precision: day
    title: Stripe adds Dhivya Suryadevara, Mike Clayville, and Trish Walsh to senior leadership
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Dhivya Suryadevara
      - Mike Clayville
      - Trish Walsh
      - Patrick Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - General Motors
      - Amazon Web Services
      - Voya Financial
    metrics:
      - label: Stripe workforce
        value: About 2,800
        context: Workforce figure disclosed in Stripe's CFO appointment announcement.
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - finance
      - revenue
      - legal
    source_ids:
      - source-4dbd7744d6f91d4890ff
      - source-6eadd4468bd0d9d7a98f
      - source-3d6c52f0fa2137ac7a41
  - id: executives-david-singleton-leads-engineering
    date: 2017-12-01
    date_precision: day
    title: David Singleton joins to lead engineering
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - David Singleton
      - Patrick Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Google
    metrics:
      - label: Approximate workforce
        value: Nearly 1,000
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - engineering
      - technology
    source_ids:
      - source-23174e14d53e9b8b0ff0
  - id: executives-will-gaybrick-first-cfo
    date: 2015-10-09
    date_precision: day
    title: Will Gaybrick becomes Stripe's first chief financial officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - Will Gaybrick
      - Patrick Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Thrive Capital
    metrics:
      - label: Finance team at appointment
        value: About 15 people
        context: Contemporaneous reporting on the appointment.
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - finance
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-9f852c1069797500c94f
      - source-e46d573a8df57cd33620
  - id: executives-claire-hughes-johnson-joins-as-coo
    date: "2014"
    date_precision: year
    title: Claire Hughes Johnson joins as chief operating officer
    summary: 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.
    confidence: reported
    people:
      - Claire Hughes Johnson
      - Patrick Collison
      - John Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
      - Google
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - operations
      - leadership
    source_ids:
      - source-d803d4a16b3a102cb23d
      - source-2b28eaace5a0b7d68b9f
  - id: executives-first-cto-and-vp-engineering-roles
    date: "2014"
    date_precision: year
    title: Greg Brockman defines the CTO role and Marc Hedlund takes engineering management
    summary: 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.
    confidence: confirmed
    people:
      - Greg Brockman
      - Marc Hedlund
      - Patrick Collison
      - John Collison
    organizations:
      - Stripe
    details:
      - label: Greg Brockman's focus
        value: Technical direction, critical systems, recruiting, and organizational leverage rather than all engineering management.
      - label: Marc Hedlund's focus
        value: Engineering line management, including one-to-ones and team execution.
    tags:
      - executive-appointment
      - engineering
      - technology
      - organization-design
    source_ids:
      - source-20fbb1f159a9c5331084
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