Marqeta, Inc. announced the addition of Simon Khalaf as its new Chief Product Officer and key member of its executive team. Previously, Khalaf was the Senior Vice President of Twilio's core products, including Messaging, Voice, Video and Flex, Twilio's fully programmable Contact Center. Simon will be responsible for the strategic direction, development and delivery of Marqeta's products to its growing customer base.

Khalaf was part of the team that accelerated Twilio's growth, with the products he oversaw driving significant revenue growth and establishing Twilio as a leader in the Communications Platform As a Service (CPAAS) space. Prior to Twilio, Khalaf led many of Yahoo, and later Verizon's, key, most popular media products. Khalaf joined Yahoo through the acquisition of Flurry Inc, a leader and innovator in mobile analytics and advertising, where he was president and CEO.

Prior to Flurry, Khalaf held executive leadership positions at Novell, Volera, Worldtalk, and JustOn. Marqeta welcomed Khalaf at a time of continued growth and investment in its product development, having recently launched RiskControl, an end-to-end suite of products to combat payment fraud, and over 40 new APIs as part of an expansion of credit card issuing capabilities. Payments are becoming more digital and more embedded into consumer and business applications, and modern card issuing is enabling the simple, scalable and configurable payment services that end-users expect.