Block, Inc. (SQ)

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Block, Inc.

1455 Market Street
Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
415 375 3176
https://www.block.xyz

Sector(s): Technology
Industry: Software—Infrastructure
Full Time Employees: 8,521

Key Executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year Born
Mr. Jack Dorsey	Co-Founder, Chairman & Pres	3	N/A	1977
Mr. James Morgan McKelvey Jr.	Co-Founder & Director	N/A	N/A	1965
Ms. Amrita Ahuja	CFO & Treasurer	498.75k	19.75M	1980
Ms. Sivan Whiteley	Counsel Lead	502.53k	N/A	1977
Mr. Brian Grassadonia	Cash App Lead	498.75k	10.8M	1984
Mr. Ajmere Dale	Chief Accounting Officer	N/A	N/A	1970
Mr. Jason Lee	Head of Investor Relations	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Felicia Mayo	People Lead	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms. Shahzia Rahman	Governance and Securities Counsel Lead	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Jason S. Gao	Assistant Sec.	N/A	N/A	N/A

Amounts are as of December 31, 2021 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay is salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Block, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, creates tools that enables sellers to accept card payments and provides reporting and analytics, and next-day settlement. It provides hardware products, including Magstripe reader, which enables swiped transactions of magnetic stripe cards; Contactless and chip reader that accepts Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV) chip cards and Near Field Communication payments; Square Stand, which enables an iPad to be used as a payment terminal or full point of sale solution; Square Register that combines its hardware, point-of-sale software, and payments technology; Square Terminal, a payments device and receipt printer to replace traditional keypad terminals, which accepts tap, dip, and swipe payments. The company also offers various software products, including Square Point of Sale; Square Appointments; Square for Retail; Square for Restaurants; Square Online and Square Online Checkout; Square Invoices; Square Virtual Terminal; Square Team Management; Square Contracts; Square Loyalty, Marketing, and Gift Cards; and Square Dashboard. In addition, it offers a developer platform, which includes application programming interfaces and software development kits. Further, the company provides Cash App, which enables to send, spend, and store money; and Weebly that offers customers website hosting and domain name registration solutions. It serves in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The company was formerly known as Square, Inc. and changed its name to Block, Inc. in December 2021. Block, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Corporate Governance

Block, Inc.’s ISS Governance QualityScore as of October 1, 2022 is 9. The pillar scores are Audit: 2; Board: 6; Shareholder Rights: 10; Compensation: 6.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while a 10 indicates higher governance risk.