Full Name: Zachary Perret
Nickname: Zach
Country/State: United States
Date of Birth: 1987-09-17
Languages Known: English
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Food Habit: Vegetarian
Religion: Not public
Hobbies: Not publicly disclosed
School: Not publicly
College: Duke University
Degrees Obtained: BS in Chemistry and Biology (Duke University)
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 69 kg
Parents: Not Publicly Known
Siblings: Not publicly disclosed
Marital Status: married
Wife: Not Public
Children: 0
Current Position: Co-Founder and CEO
Skills:
Net Worth: Not Publicly Known
Awards & Achievements: Built Plaid into a major financial data and payments infrastructure platform used across fintech and banking ecosystems.
Zach Perret is an American fintech entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Plaid. He studied at Duke University, graduating with a BS in Chemistry and Biology, and later worked in consulting where he met future co-founder William Hockey.
Perret helped shape Plaid’s mission around making financial products easier to build by enabling secure connections between consumer bank accounts and the apps people use for payments, investing, and personal finance. Over time, Plaid expanded beyond basic connectivity into products focused on identity, fraud, risk, credit insights, and pay-by-bank experiences, positioning the company as infrastructure behind many digital finance workflows.
Plaid announced a funding round reported in April 2025 at a valuation reported around $6.1B.
Plaid and JPMorganChase announced an extension of their consumer-permissioned data access agreement in September 2025.
Plaid launched a Fall 2025 product release featuring new predictive risk and fraud scoring capabilities (October 2025).
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