Prior to Square, Friar was SVP of Finance and Strategy for enterprise cloud computing company salesforce.com (view press release). Previous that that she spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs in Corporate Finance, M&A and equity research and then as business leader for the GS Technology Research group.
Square is now processing around USD6 billion of payments from around I million individuals and businesses annually. The addition of Friar follows a series of new hires, including Alyssa Cutright from PayPal and Jesse Dorogusker from Apple, and precedes the company’s plans for international expansion later this year.
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