secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Marqeta, Inc. (MQ)
CIK:        0001522540
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001522540-26-000040
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Marqeta appoints Lukasz Strozek as CTO, effective May 18, 2026
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- Strozek most recently served as CTO of LendingClub; held prior CTO role at Hippo Insurance.
- Annual base salary of $475k; eligible for 75% annual bonus and $100k sign-on bonus with one-year retention.
- Awarded RSUs valued at $7.6M vesting over ~3 years and PSUs valued at $1.9M under 2021 equity plan.
- CEO Mike Milotich cites his deep technical expertise and track record of scaling engineering teams.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1522540/000152254026000040/0001522540-26-000040-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1522540/000152254026000040/mq-20260508.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001522540-26-000040

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