
Simon Khalaf.
Chief Executive Officer at WorkWhile
About
San Francisco, California, United StatesSimon Khalaf is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and scaled operator with years of experience in Consumer tech, Embedded Finance, Streaming Media, and Cloud Computing. Khalaf’s passion is to build, scale and distribute products that serve hundreds of millions of consumers and developers. Khalaf has demonstrated the ability to work with teams as small as a 4 people startup and as large as multi thousand strong and diverse teams spread across the globe and generating over 8B+ USD in revenues. Khalaf is a team builder and player always focused on attracting, mentoring and learning from top talent.
Khalaf and his co-founders have built 4 companies from scratch and have taken their products from inception to market share leadership, generating hundreds of millions in revenues, 1.8B in shareholder value and 3.7x aggregate return to Institutional investors through an IPO and three M&A transactions.
Khalaf resides in San Francisco, CA
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Experience
From LinkedIn- Chief Executive OfficerWorkWhile2026 to present
- COO and Board MemberWorkWhile2025
- Board MemberWorkWhile2019 to 2025
- Board MemberTyrian.ai2025 to present
- Chief Executive OfficerMarqeta2023 to 2025
- Chief Product OfficerMarqeta2022 to 2023
Education
- Syracuse UniversityMaster of Science - MS