Affirm CFO Fireside Chat – September 2022

Michael Linford is the Chief Financial Officer at Affirm, where he oversees and manages the accounting, finance, capital markets, and strategic partnerships department at Affirm. Prior to joining Affirm, Michael held multiple leadership roles within investment, IT, and software companies. Previously, Michael was the Chief Financial Officer for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Software where he led commercial work for all HPE separations and most recently served as the VP of M&A Integration at HP. Additionally, Michael dedicated seven years to global investment firm KKR & CO, working his way to Principal and offering strategic and tactical support to a wide portfolio of companies as a member of the operations group. He started his career in management consulting as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company focused on consumer and retail clients. Michael holds a B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin where he studied Mechanical Engineering.

Jason Kupferberg is a managing director in US Equity Research covering Payments, Processors & IT Services, based in New York. Since 2009, he has been consistently ranked #3 or a Runner-Up in the Institutional Investor All-America Research Poll. Previously, he was a senior analyst and managing director at Jefferies and an executive director at UBS. He has a BBA in finance from The George Washington University and an MBA from New York University. For more information about any awards cited, visit https://rsch.baml.com/awards.