Builders, investors, advisors
We’re a team that first met as early employees at Stripe. Over several years we worked in the trenches together—and with our many other Stripe colleagues—to help grow the company into one of the world’s most important startups. While we’ve each moved on to different adventures, we’ve retained the passion for helping technology companies get started and grow. We started Catalyze Advisors together to further this mission.
We provide early-stage funding and advisory services to help technology startups with their foundational accounting, corporate, regulatory, tax, partnership, and product strategies. Because of our varied backgrounds and experiences building at Stripe and elsewhere, we help early-stage companies identify—and navigate—many of their key initial challenges so they are better positioned for continued growth and success.
Team
Jon is a founder of Responsible Innovation Labs, a nonprofit focused on establishing responsible practices in the tech industry. He previously served as the General Counsel of Stripe for over 8 years, overseeing legal affairs, public policy, compliance, and corporate security.
Before joining Stripe, he worked at Microsoft, leading the legal aspects of various consumer online divisions. He started his legal career at Perkins Coie.
Kay has dedicated the majority of her professional journey to the financial services sector, including Wells Fargo and Bank of America. She has accumulated 20+ years of experience collaborating closely with financial institutions and regulatory bodies.
With a diverse skill set encompassing risk management, compliance, operations, BD, and international expansion, Kay played a vital role in guiding PayPal and Stripe to success.
Dave holds a concurrent role at Point Arena LLC, a family office where he helps run operations and finance for a small investing fund.
Dave spent 12 years at Ernst & Young as an auditor before joining Facebook as its Chief Accounting Officer. After helping to take Facebook public in 2012, Dave joined Stripe as its Chief Accountant and first finance hire. In his tenure at Stripe, Dave helped build a finance team of 100+ professionals.
Michael is a tax advisor with experience working across many areas in technology, including payments, web3, e-commerce, and hardware.
Michael was previously the Head of Tax for Stripe, where he built and led a team that managed corporate tax strategy and policies, as well as tax issues around policy, equity, and M&A.
Prior to and following his time at Stripe, Michael led the tax operations team at Facebook and later the tax leader for web3 and blockchain initiatives.
Jacques was previously GC of Calm, the meditation, sleep and relaxation app.
Jacques was previously the Head of Corporate Affairs at Stripe, where he provided legal support equity and debt fundraising, corporate development, governance, equity compensation, real estate, workplace and insurance matters.
Prior to Stripe, Jacques was a Director at BlackRock and a corporate attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
David's expertise is intellectual property. In prior roles, he was Managing Director, Global Head of IP at BlackRock, and was Stripe’s first Head of IP.
David was a scientist (PhD biophysics) before becoming a lawyer. He still writes code, and is an inventor on 25 US patents. David serves as a startup advisor at the Atlanta Tech Village.
Mary is an equity expert specializing in global tax compliance, platform management, and equity compensation programs. She holds a concurrent role as Director of Equity Operations at Figma, Inc.
Mary was previously the Head of Global Equity for Stripe, where she built equity plan operations to support Stripe’s dynamic equity programs and growth from 500 to 5,000+ employees in over 30+ countries.
Prior to Stripe, Mary was an accounting and equity consultant for both private and public companies.
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