Karat Adds Mastercard, EA Execs to Board and Partners with Workday

SEATTLE, WA — August 7, 2025 — Karat today announced the appointment of Ed McLaughlin, President and Chief Technology Officer at Mastercard, and Mala Singh, Chief People Officer at Electronic Arts, to its Board of Directors.

This announcement comes as Karat continues to expand its work with leading Fortune 500 companies including Atlassian, Citi, PayPal, Schlumberger, and Travelers. In the past year alone, Karat has seen 70% year-over-year growth in enterprise adoption, with CTOs and CIOs of the world’s largest financial service organizations, retailers, and tech companies turning to Karat as their trusted solution to measure, benchmark and elevate the quality of their engineering workforces. Fueled by the growth across the enterprise business segment the collective market cap of Karat’s publicly traded customers has grown to over $8 trillion.

“Enterprise leaders are under pressure to evolve their workforce models, and that begins with smarter talent and hiring decisions,” said Ed McLaughlin, President and Chief Technology Officer at Mastercard. “With Karat, engineering leaders get access to rich interview performance data, competitive benchmarking across roles and geographies, and real-time insights into how engineers think, solve problems, and collaborate with AI. The human-led, AI powered live interview format ensures those insights are grounded in real-world scenarios, not just impersonal test scores.”

As Mastercard’s CTO, McLaughlin leads the company’s global technology infrastructure, platforms, payments systems, cybersecurity, and innovation hubs. His experience overseeing talent transformation across critical, highly regulated environments brings valuable insight as Karat deepens its impact with the world’s largest financial institutions and enterprises.

Mala Singh brings a complementary perspective as the Chief People Officer of Electronic Arts (EA), where she leads global people strategy, talent development, and organizational design for a distributed, digital-native workforce. Her appointment reflects the growing demand for integrated talent strategies that align technical hiring, workforce planning and AI.

“Karat is solving one of the most urgent challenges facing enterprise talent leaders: how to measure and continuously raise engineering quality in a world where humans and AI work in tandem,” said Mala Singh, Chief People Officer at EA. “Karat’s platform is uniquely powerful because it blends structured assessments, human interactions, benchmarking analytics, organization-wide visibility and controls ensuring quality of hires. That human + AI approach gives technical leaders the confidence that they’re bringing in people who can adapt and thrive as AI becomes a bigger part of software development.”

Karat is also expanding its enterprise ecosystem with a new partnership as an official Workday Innovation Partner, enabling direct integration between Karat’s platform and Workday’s applicant tracking system. This allows large organizations to embed robust engineering talent data within their existing HR tech stack, streamlining operations, enhancing hiring data, and improving talent ROI.

About Karat:

Karat is transforming organizations around the world. We provide a powerful system for technical leaders at companies like PayPal, Atlassian and Citi who want to take control of how they hire top engineers, elevate their teams and contractors, and stay ahead. At the core of Karat’s system are live, expert-led interviews, analytics designed to give leaders maximum visibility, and the most robust interview performance dataset in the world. Coming soon: A new Human+AI way to interview technical talent in the AI era. Learn more at www.karat.com