Ajit Deshpande - Marqeta

Our guest today is Ajit Deshpande, Vice President of Demand Generation at Marqeta. Marqeta is the leader in modern card issuing and a fast growing unicorn FinTech startup. At Marqeta, Ajit is responsible for channels ranging from events, Account-Based Marketing to paid advertising, SEO, blog content and marketing operations. Prior to Marqeta, Ajit had stints at Stripe, where he was a growth strategy leader, at Salesforce, where he was the VP of Marketing Operations, as well as in venture capital. Prior to this roles. Ajit is an engineer by training and has been a Bay Area native for 20 years.