Steffan Tomlinson — CEO

Steffan is the CFO of Stripe, where he leads finance, global operations, internal systems, and real estate, while driving capital allocation and shaping the company's AI-driven growth strategy. During his tenure, Stripe has scaled to $1.9 trillion in volume while accelerating both growth and profitability—strengthening its position as the defining financial infrastructure platform. He has taken three companies public — Confluent (CFLT), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), and Aruba (ARUN) — with over twelve years of experience guiding public companies through critical inflection points post-listing. Before joining Stripe, Steffan served as CFO of Confluent, and prior to that as CFO of Google Cloud and Technical Infrastructure at Alphabet, gaining deep experience in hyperscale infrastructure and hypergrowth operations. He is a veteran of public and private capital markets transactions — spanning venture, IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, debt financings, and tender offers — and has led numerous acquisitions and strategic transactions throughout his career. His leadership perspective, builder mindset, and deep customer focus were forged early in his career as the first non-founder employee and CFO of Peribit, where he steered the company from its earliest stages through a strategic acquisition by Juniper Networks. Across all the companies he has served as CFO, he has built a track record of driving over $140 billion in aggregate market value creation. Steffan excels at building and leading high-performing teams and partnering closely with founders, leaders, CEOs, and boards — translating vision into financial discipline and consistent operational execution to achieve the desired outcomes. He brings broad public and private board experience and currently serves on the boards of Cyera and Vercel.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech executive with extensive experience in financial infrastructure and strategic growth.

Location: South San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 31 yrs 6 mos