Buyer Finder: Stripe, Plaid, Brex (EMEA / London) - Stripe has named EMEA targets, Plaid and Brex have none at VP/CFO level
Interpretation: "Plaid" means the US open-banking company, not the unrelated Canadian graphene company Plaid Technologies Inc. (TSE: STIF), whose CFO resignation and interim CFO on 30 September 2026 appear in search results for "Plaid CFO" (TipRanks). "Brex" means Brex, now owned by Capital One. Roles searched: VP Finance, Head of Compliance, CFO, with an EMEA / London focus. Treat every row as a lead to confirm before outreach. LinkedIn pages returned HTTP 999 and could not be opened, so most titles come from People Data Labs (PDL) records, which carry a "last verified" date, rather than from a page I read.
Buyer table
| Company | Name | Title | Matches role (Exact/Adjacent) | Source (link) | Seen (date) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stripe | Ciara Harvey | Head of Compliance - Stripe Europe | Exact (Head of Compliance) | PDL record | 2026-07-31 (PDL last verified) | Located in Ireland, so EMEA fit rather than London. Stripe is also advertising an EMEA Chief Compliance Officer (London or Dublin) role posted 11 September 2026, reporting to the Global Head of Compliance Officers, CROs & MLROs. Inference: the regional compliance structure may be changing, so confirm who she reports to. No hook found. |
| Stripe | Deepak Dagar | Chief Financial Officer, Stripe Payments UK Ltd | Exact (CFO, UK entity) | PDL record | 2026-08-19 (PDL last verified) | London-based per PDL. The Companies House officer list for Stripe Payments UK Ltd does not name him, so the CFO title is not corroborated by a registry. No hook confirmed (a LinkedIn post on Stripe's annual letter appeared in search but was not opened). |
| Stripe | Marc Fungard | Global Head of Financial Crime, Compliance, and Risk Oversight (FinCRO) | Adjacent (global compliance head, London-based) | PDL record | 2026-08-19 (PDL last verified) | Global scope covers EMEA. The EMEA CCO posting says the role sits within the FinCRO organisation, which matches his title. His direct report line is not confirmed. No hook found. |
| Plaid | Araba Eshun | Legal & Compliance Lead, Europe | Adjacent (regional compliance lead, not "Head of") | PDL record | 2026-09-04 (PDL last verified) | London-based. The Org lists the same title and London location, but marks the profile "Unverified". A search-result title for the same Org page reads "MLRO & Compliance Lead, UK & EU" (not confirmed on the page I read). |
| Plaid | Seun Sodipo | Chief Financial Officer | Exact (CFO), global scope, no EMEA seat | Fortune, 20 October 2025 | 2025-10-20 (article date) | Fortune says she leads Plaid's global finance function. PDL places her in California. Conflict: PDL also lists an "Arnetta Stakes, acting chief financial officer" at Plaid (verified 2026-08-11), which I could not corroborate; see Exceptions. Hook: in Fortune she says Plaid's push beyond bank connectivity into credit, anti-fraud and payments is a priority. |
| Brex | Erica Dorfman | Chief Financial Officer | Exact (CFO), global scope, no EMEA seat | Fintech Is Femme, 8 April 2026 | 2026-04-08 | Hook: the newsletter says she was scheduled for a live recording at the Fintech Is Femme Leadership Summit on 29 April 2026 and talked with its author about the Capital One deal. |
| Brex | Sibongile Ngako | Chief Compliance Officer & BSA / AML Officer | Exact (Head of Compliance), global scope | PDL record | 2026-08-21 (PDL last verified) | San Francisco-based, no EMEA seat shown. Capital One completed the Brex acquisition on 7 April 2026, so compliance reporting lines may have changed. No hook found. |
No match
- VP Finance (all three companies): no named holder found at Stripe, Plaid or Brex in an EMEA or London seat. Sources searched: PDL title search for finance leaders in the UK and Ireland (Stripe, Plaid), PDL for Brex, web search, Companies House (Stripe Payments UK). The only Plaid London finance hit was a "Finance Manager - Europe", which is below the VP level and was left out.
- Brex EMEA / London (any role): no named finance or compliance leader found. Search results show only Brex job listings (for example a European Counsel role) that I did not open.
Exceptions
- Plaid CFO conflict: Fortune (October 2025) names Sodipo CFO; PDL (verified 2026-08-11) lists Arnetta Stakes as acting CFO and a third profile for "Sadiq Mariam, CFO" last verified 2025-09-16, which looks stale. I found no news confirming a change, and the 2026-09-08 PDL record still lists Sodipo as CFO. Confirm before outreach.
- Entity trap: the graphene company's CFO news (effective 30 September 2026) concerns the graphene company, not the fintech. Do not treat it as a departure at the fintech.
- Stripe EMEA compliance: the open EMEA CCO role, listed on a job aggregator that says it has not confirmed the listing in the last 14 days, may be closed or a backfill. Harvey's title may not be the final EMEA compliance seat.
- Deepak Dagar: title rests on a PDL record only; no registry or press page corroborates it.
- Global CFOs not listed as rows: Stripe's global CFO is Steffan Tomlinson per PDL (South San Francisco, last verified 2026-09-09) (PDL record); omitted from the table because the cap is three people and he has no EMEA seat.
Do next
- Open LinkedIn manually (the fetch was blocked) for Ciara Harvey, Deepak Dagar, Marc Fungard and Araba Eshun to confirm current titles and recent posts for hooks.
- Ask a Plaid contact, or check Plaid's FCA-regulated entity (Plaid Financial Ltd) officer list, for the UK MLRO and any UK finance lead.
- Check whether Stripe's EMEA CCO role was filled and whether Harvey reports into it.
- For Brex, test Capital One UK finance and compliance leaders as alternative buyers, since Brex is now inside Capital One.
Coverage
Not reached: LinkedIn (HTTP 999), Stripe, Plaid and Brex leadership pages (not fetched), wire services and conference bios (not searched in depth). Departure checks were limited to the news searches above.
Sources
- TipRanks: Plaid Technologies (STIF) interim CFO, effective 30 September 2026
- gm.careers: Stripe EMEA Chief Compliance Officer, posted 11 September 2026
- Companies House: Stripe Payments UK Ltd officers
- The Org: Araba E., Plaid
- Fortune: Plaid names Seun Sodipo CFO, 20 October 2025
- Fintech Is Femme: Inside the $5.15B Brex decision, 8 April 2026
- Capital One: completes acquisition of Brex, 7 April 2026