Plaid is returning with our Community Town Hall on February 23 to chat all things fintech and give you a heads up on what we've been up to and where we're going. Hosted by leaders at Plaid, we’ll share our latest platform and product updates, and offer insights and trends that can help you take your business to new heights.
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Get a (virtual) front row seat to hear Plaid leaders talk about:
   •  The opportunity ahead for this new decade of fintech
   • Recently launched products & updates
   • What we're building next
We’ll end with a live Q&A with all the speakers!
Jean-Denis Greze is Head of Engineering at Plaid. He oversees Plaid’s global engineering and design teams and sets the technical vision of the company.Â
Prior to joining Plaid, Jean-Denis was Director of Engineering at Dropbox, where he led the growth, identity, notifications, and payments teams. Before Dropbox, Jean-Denis worked in fintech in New York and holds a CS & MS degree from Columbia as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son and has spent time all over the world including: Boston, Chicago, Lausanne (Switzerland), Los Angeles, New York City, Paris (France), Santiago (Chile), and Shanghai (People’s Republic of China) over the last four decades.
Zach Perret is CEO and Co-founder of Plaid, the technology platform powering the future of money. After realizing how difficult it was to build a personal finance application, Zach and his co-founder William Hockey started Plaid in 2013 to give developers easy and secure access to a financial data network capable of powering any digital financial service. To date, one in four people with a US bank account have used Plaid to connect to a financial application. Prior to founding Plaid, Zach was a consultant for Bain and graduated with degrees in Physics and Chemistry from Duke University.
Ginger Baker is the Head of Financial Access at Plaid. Her team is responsible for partnering with financial institutions to accelerate the rate at which they can embrace digital connectivity, enabling their customers to enjoy the best that fintech has to offer.Â
Previously, Ginger was Senior Director of Product at Ripple where she led the development of solutions that utilize digital assets to enable the world to move value as easily as information moves today. Prior to joining Ripple, she led product development for Financial Services at Facebook where her teams enabled users in emerging markets to access financial services and payments via Messenger and WhatsApp. Ginger has also served as the Director of Payments at Square and the Managing Director of Visa’s business in Rwanda where she was responsible for the flagship implementation of mVisa and Visa’s first public-private partnership with a national government. Ginger holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University.
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Pritee leads product management for Plaid's core developer facing products. She focuses on creating best-in-class experiences through the Plaid API, dashboard, and documentation. Pritee strives to spend as much time as possible talking directly with customers and would love to hear from you!
Prior to joining Plaid, Pritee was a PM at Coinbase working on the Coinbase Asset Management product as well as consumer facing educational products. Before Coinbase, Pritee worked at Google on their central bizops team, solving product, strategic, and operational problems across the business. Pritee started her career at The Boston Consulting Group. She holds a BS from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Pritee enjoys hiking, wine tasting, doing yoga, drinking matcha lattes, and all other quintessential San Francisco activities. She especially enjoys writing about herself in the third person.
Eric Sprauve is an Engineering Manager on Plaid’s Financial Identity team (also known as FIT), leading a team of engineers focused on building workforce financial products. He also leads the Plaid Apprenticeship Program, which invites talented candidates from non-traditional software engineering backgrounds to build at Plaid.Â
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Before coming to Plaid, Eric held multiple engineering roles at Dropbox and Microsoft.
Judd Blair is an Engineering Manager on Plaid’s Link Platform team, leading a team of engineers focused on scaling the Plaid platform empowering teams to design, ship, and support features on best-in-class SDKs. He was also responsible for rolling out the all-new Plaid Link which was announced late last year.
Before coming to Plaid, Judd held multiple engineering roles at Autolist, Euclid and Google.