Pipe is leadership with experience

Claurelle Rakipovic

Chief Executive Officer

Claurelle has two decades of experience innovating global lending, payments, wealth, and consumer technology products at Amazon, Capital Group, and Blackberry. Most recently, she was a VP of Product at the Capital Group, the 10th largest asset manager in the world. Previously, she launched and scaled Amazon’s lending and B2B payments businesses globally.

Vijay Vachani

Chief Operating Officer

Vijay has built and led go-to-market and product organizations at startups and global public companies across software and fintech. Most recently at Square, he led the developer platform, global partnerships, and international businesses. Before Square, he led partnerships and the developer platform for Adobe Creative Cloud, following Adobe’s acquisition of Aviary, where he was responsible for partnerships and growth.

Jin Han

Chief Administrative Officer

Jin is a veteran legal, compliance, and governance leader with over two decades of experience in financial services, lending, and payments. Jin led legal functions and helped develop products for industry leaders, including Square, Klarna, and Afterpay. As Apple's principal payments counsel, Jin was also an early contributor to the Apple Pay project.

Nick Clemente

SVP, Head of Strategic Finance and Risk

Nick leads strategic finance and risk at Pipe, overseeing capital markets, funding, and portfolio risk & underwriting. He spent the first half of his career building structured credit and financing business lines at investment banks in New York and London. Prior to joining Pipe, he led capital markets and strategic partnerships at Uncapped and capital markets at Parafin. Earlier, Nick built the capital markets function at Amazon Lending, where he also led business development, creating the third-party lending partnership framework and negotiating Amazon’s first embedded lending partnerships.