Deirdre Clute

Deirdre, awarded Forbes 30 under 30, is the Co-Founder and COO of Rightfoot, a leading payments infrastructure company. Recently named on Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars, Rightfoot is tackling the largest untapped opportunity in fintech — consumer debt, a $15T problem. Rightfoot provides developers with the ability to easily add debt payments to any application. Deirdre and her co-founders launched Rightfoot with a mission to maximize wealth for underrepresented communities and address the inequities in consumer debt burdens. Deirdre has spent the past decade developing, selling, and distributing products nationally, first at PowerBar and then at PepsiCo. Deirdre earned her Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she incubated and co-founded Rightfoot.