• Plaid Technologies named Paul Hughes interim CEO effective June 19, 2026.
• Outgoing CEO Guy Bourgeois stepped down, taking over as board chair.
• Hughes is a serial entrepreneur and C-suite executive with 25+ years across deep tech, clean energy, industrial technology, renewables.
• He founded Shift Clean Energy, scaling it to 97 staff, raising over $60 million, then completing a trade sale.

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