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Elevate named best consumer Payments Platform for second consecutive year. Mar 19, 2026, 10:15 ET FinTech Breakthrough recognizes Elevate's cloud-based, AI-enabled platform that transforms how healthcare benefits are delivered and scaled DENVER, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Elevate, a modern consumer directed benefits administration platform, today announced that it has been selected as winner of the "Consumer Payments Platform of the Year," in the 10th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards. This is the second consecutive year Elevate has received this honor from FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market. "Being recognized by FinTech Breakthrough for the second year in a row is a powerful validation of our mission to modernize how healthcare benefits work for real people," said Brian Cosgray, co-founder and CEO of Elevate. "We built Elevate to eliminate challenges that have long defined consumer-directed benefits. This award reflects the impact our platform is having - helping partners scale faster, reduce operational burden and give workers immediate access to the healthcare dollars they depend on." Elevate is redefining how consumer-directed healthcare benefits are delivered, making it easier for U.S. workers to access and use their healthcare dollars when they need them most. The industry's first fully cloud-based, API-driven and AI-enabled consumer-directed benefits platform, Elevate replaces legacy infrastructure with real-time automation and modern consumer experiences. The platform supports instant claims processing, real-time reimbursements, automated claims submission, and a single secure payment card that works across multiple benefit plans, including chip security and contactless payments. By removing friction from every step of the benefits journey, Elevate helps benefits administrators - such as Gusto, Rippling, and Rocky Mountain Reserve - deliver faster access to funds and a simpler, more intuitive experience for members. The company's scalable platform drives efficiency, reducing exceptions and customer support volume, even as new clients are onboarded. The results are measurable, as Elevate customers have reported achieving 40% to 50% new business growth, while reducing cases per customer by more than 60%. The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Digital Banking, Personal Finance, Cryptocurrencies, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. Elevate is named alongside two of its partners, Gusto and Rippling, and an elite group of distinguished winners across the financial services industries, including MasterCard, Nerd Wallet, Intuit, Betterment, Capital One, and others. About Elevate Elevate is the first completely cloud-based, API-driven and AI-enabled consumer-directed benefits platform with a focus on configurability, embeddability and real-time automation. The all-in-one platform can manage all types of benefit accounts, from health savings accounts (HSAs) to complex health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), and even commuter and lifestyle accounts. Elevate's team of industry experts recognized the need for modern technology in an outdated benefits administration industry, which led to the creation of Elevate in 2020. To learn more visit www.elevate.ai and follow Elevate on LinkedIn. SOURCE Elevate

Rippling has appointed Adrian Ludwig as chief security officer, bringing over 20 years of experience securing global-scale platforms. Ludwig previously led Android Security at Google, served as CISO at Atlassian, and most recently worked as chief architect and CISO at Tools for Humanity. Ludwig began his career as a teenager working for the US Department of Defense on cryptographic vulnerabilities. He later helped secure Adobe's early web presence and developed mobile security models protecting billions of users. At Rippling, he will oversee global security strategy across product security, infrastructure protection, trust and risk. The San Francisco-based company, which provides integrated HR, payroll, IT and spend management software, has raised $1.8 billion from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund and Sequoia.

Renowned security Architect Adrian Ludwig joins Rippling as Chief Security Officer. Former Google & Atlassian Security Professional Brings More Than Two Decades of Experience Securing Global-scale Platforms SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Rippling, a leading business software company, announced the appointment of Adrian Ludwig as Chief Security Officer, bringing to the company one of the technology industry's most accomplished security leaders. Ludwig joins Rippling with more than two decades of experience securing global-scale platforms and advising organizations at the forefront of cloud, mobile, and identity innovation. His career has been defined by building security capabilities during periods of fundamental technological shift and transforming security into a driver of product velocity, customer trust, and business growth. Recruited as a teenager by the U.S. Department of Defense to identify vulnerabilities in cryptographic and networked systems, Ludwig has operated at the leading edge of cybersecurity ever since. He went on to help secure the early web at Adobe and shape the modern mobile security model as Director of Android Security at Google, protecting billions of users worldwide. Later he scaled trust and cloud security as Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Trust Officer at Atlassian. Most recently, as Chief Architect and CISO at Tools for Humanity, he led the development of one of the industry's most ambitious efforts in privacy-preserving, global proof-of-human identity infrastructure. "Rippling is redefining how companies run their entire business on a single platform, and that only works if trust is absolute. Adrian has built security for technologies used by billions of people and millions of businesses. As we secure our platform and customers in the rapidly evolving AI era, he understands how to make security foundational to innovation, not a constraint. That is a game-changing capability for our customers and for our company," said Rippling Chief Technology Officer Albert Strasheim. At Rippling, Ludwig will lead the company's global security strategy across product security, infrastructure protection, trust, and risk. His mandate is to ensure that as customers consolidate more of their workforce and business operations on Rippling's platform, security is a deeply embedded architectural advantage. Across each of his roles, Ludwig has championed a model in which security is engineered into products as a core primitive, enabling speed, resilience, and trust rather than acting as a gatekeeper. His appointment underscores Rippling's long-term commitment to delivering security that scales seamlessly with customers, deepening the company's commitment to an integrated IT and security infrastructure that helps organizations from high-growth startups to the world's largest enterprises manage devices, identities, and data with confidence. "Rippling is building one of the most important business systems of record for the modern company. When a platform becomes that central to how organizations operate, security cannot be a layer added later. It has to be foundational to the architecture," said Rippling Chief Security Officer Adrian Ludwig. "My focus is to make world-class security an invisible, reliable constant for every customer, so they can move faster with complete confidence." About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, Payroll, IT, and Spend - globally. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and IT. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system. Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.8B from the top investors in the world, including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, and Bedrock.