Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, Meta Platforms Inc. (META) Board Tenure: 2025 – present Committee Memberships: None assigned (new director 2025) Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

Basis for Inclusion: Patrick Collison holds a documented governance role as an independent director of Meta Platforms Inc., which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities while facing significant regulatory scrutiny. Collison’s concurrent role as CEO of Stripe — one of the world’s most valuable private fintech companies with extensive federal regulatory exposure — creates a governance profile of cross-sector significance. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record (SEC filings, proxy statements). This profile documents only the governance role and its connection to documented corporate political activity.

What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Collison’s personal political opinions, party affiliation, public statements, or any protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion. The basis is solely the documented directorial role and its fiduciary connection to corporate political spending documented in the parent corporate donor profile.

Biographical Overview

Patrick Collison (born September 9, 1988, Limerick, Ireland) co-founded Stripe in 2010 with his brother John Collison. Stripe is one of the world’s most valuable private companies — a global online payment processing platform used by millions of businesses and valued at approximately $65 billion as of 2024. Collison serves as CEO and board member of Stripe. He previously served on Meta’s Advisory Group from 2024 to 2025 before joining the full board.

Collison is notable in the technology world for his intellectual breadth and long-term thinking. Stripe’s business is subject to significant federal regulatory oversight through the CFPB, Federal Reserve, and state money-transmission licensing regimes. Stripe has significant relationships with major banks and payment networks, whose regulatory frameworks are directly shaped by administration appointments. He attended MIT (mathematics and physics) before founding Stripe.

Board Role and Governance Authority

• Company: Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META)
• Board tenure: 2025 – present
• Committee assignments: None assigned as of proxy
• Day job: Co-founder & CEO, Stripe Inc.

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the Meta Platforms — Corporate Donor Profile, which documents the corporation’s political spending, pending government business, and favorable outcomes under the Trump administration.

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Sources

• Meta Platforms Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement, filed April 16, 2026 (annual meeting May 27, 2026)
• SEC EDGAR filing: Meta Platforms Inc. (CIK 1326801)