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APPOINTMENTS Marqeta taps Crystal Sumner

Marqet Marqeta, a modern card issuing platform, select-
Mercantile Processing hires Ben Gray ed Crystal Sumner as its chief legal officer. As a key
member of Marqeta's executive team, Sumner will be
Ben Gray joined the growing Mercantile Processing Inc. responsible for overseeing Marqeta’s global legal and
team and will be serving as the chief operating officer. regulatory affairs. Sumner comes to Marqeta from
Gray comes to MPI with extensive leadership and busi- cloud-based banking platform Blend, where she was
ness operations skills, having served 12 years in the responsible for building and scaling all aspects of the
hospitality sector, where he directly impacted the fiscal legal, compliance and risk functions.
and people management of over 200 employees and
$100 million in assets, MPI stated. At MPI, he will be Most recently, she held Marqeta's head of legal, compli-
responsible for scaling the company’s rapid growth by ance and risk role, leading Blend through its IPO in 2021.
increasing operational efficiencies and enhancing the Prior to Blend, Sumner was an enforcement attorney at
company culture. the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. a, a modern
Dan Ruppe signs on with MAP card issuing platform, selected Crystal Sumner as its
chief legal officer. As a key member of Marqeta's execu-
Member Access Processing, a provider of Visa DPS debit, tive team, Sumner will be responsible for overseeing
credit, ATM, prepaid, and mobile processing to credit Marqeta’s global legal and regulatory affairs.
unions, welcomed Dan Ruppe as senior vice president of
product services. Ruppe will lead MAP’s growing suite Sumner comes to Marqeta from cloud-based banking
of payment services, including the management of third- platform Blend, where she was responsible for building
party solutions from the nation’s leading providers. An and scaling all aspects of the legal, compliance and risk
experienced product strategist and leader at such com- functions. Most recently, she held Marqeta's head of
panies as PaySys International, Hogan Systems, PSCU legal, compliance and risk role, leading Blend through
and First Data Corp., Ruppe brings over three decades of its IPO in 2021. Prior to Blend, Sumner was an enforce-
experience in the card payments industry to MAP. ment attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau.

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