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Steffan Tomlinson
Chief Financial Officer
Stripe
Steffan Tomlinson is the Chief Financial Officer at Stripe. He is responsible for the company’s finance, internal systems, investor relations, operations delivery center, real estate and workplace teams. Before joining Stripe, Steffan held CFO positions at Confluent, Google Cloud, and Palo Alto Networks. He serves on the boards of Vercel and Cyera.
Steffan earned his bachelor’s degree from Trinity College and MBA from Santa Clara University. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two children, and two dogs.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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10:10–10:30amFri 20 NovFestival StageHall 1, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
Beyond Payments: Building the Economic Infrastructure for AI
About this session
We built payment systems for humans—accounts, cards, and checkout flows designed around people clicking "buy." But AI agents don't shop that way. As autonomous systems begin to transact, negotiate, and settle at machine speed, they expose how much of our economic infrastructure simply wasn't built for them. Payments are just the surface; identity, trust, contracts, and settlement all need reinventing. Learn what economic infrastructure AI agents actually require beyond payment rails, how identity and trust must evolve when machines transact autonomously, and who is building the foundational layers of the agentic economy.
