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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On April 17, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Marqeta, Inc. approved an increase in the number of directors on the Board from nine (9) to ten (10) directors and appointed Najuma Atkinson to serve as a Class II member of the Board to hold office until the 2023 annual meeting of stockholders and until a successor has been duly elected. She was also appointed to the Compensation Committee of the Board.

There are no arrangements or understandings between Ms. Atkinson and any other person, in each case, pursuant to which Ms. Atkinson was appointed to serve on the Board. There are no family relationships between Ms. Atkinson and any other director or executive officer of the Company and there have been no transactions between Ms. Atkinson and the Company in the last fiscal year, and none are currently proposed, that would require disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

As a non-employee director, Ms. Atkinson will be compensated for her services in accordance with the Company’s Non-Employee Director Compensation Policy, which is filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 28, 2023 (the “fiscal 2022 Form 10-K”). In accordance with the Company’s customary practice, the Company will also enter into its standard form of indemnification agreement with Ms. Atkinson, which agreement is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s fiscal 2022 Form 10-K.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


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104						Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).



			MARQETA, INC.
Date: April 18, 2023			/s/ Michael (Mike) Milotich
			Michael (Mike) Milotich
			Chief Financial Officer