PublicSquare Names Former Klarna North America CEO Brian Billingsley as President of Newly Formed PSQ Payments Subsidiary

PSQ Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PSQH) (“PublicSquare,” or the “Company”), a leading marketplace of patriotic businesses and consumers, today announced that Brian Billingsley has joined the Company as its President of PSQ Payments, a new subsidiary focused on building and providing an uncancellable payments solution, for the Company’s marketplace, its wholly owned subsidiaries, as well as third-party merchants supporting the parallel economy.

Michael Seifert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PublicSquare, commented, “I am extremely excited to have Brian join the PublicSquare team. The experience, expertise, and industry reputation Brian brings to our company will help us immeasurably as we look to build and scale a payments ecosystem. Our development of PSQ Payments and its associated technology is one more step on our journey to owning the infrastructure foundational to the parallel economy. Combined with the power of our Credova subsidiary, PSQ Payments will position us to monetize our marketplace transactions further, provide what we expect to be a best-of-breed checkout experience, and protect our merchants and customers from cancellation.” The company believes that Brian joining the team is indicative of the Company’s ability to attract highly qualified, values-aligned leadership.

Brian Billingsley has more than 15 years of experience in payments, e-commerce, and consumer credit. Mr. Billingsley previously co-founded Basis Theory - a fully programmable vault for independently controlling payment data, and currently sits on its board of directors. Brian’s payments experience includes the launch of Klarna in the United States as the fintech unicorn’s North American CEO, Chief Revenue Officer for Modopayments, a payments orchestration platform with Fortune 100 customers, Director of Strategic Business Development and senior leadership team member for Alliance Data (now Bread Financial), a leading provider of private label and co-branded credit for many of the world's most recognizable brands, and a member of the Enterprise Strategy team at FIS - the world’s largest Fintech company.

About PublicSquare

PublicSquare is an app and website that connects patriotic Americans to high-quality businesses that share their values, both online and in their local communities. The primary mission of the platform is to help consumers “shop their values” and put purpose behind their purchases. In just over one year since its nationwide launch, PublicSquare has seen tremendous growth and proven to the nation that the parallel, “patriotic” economy can be a major force in commerce. The platform has over 75,000 businesses from a variety of different industries and over 1.6 million consumer members. Additionally, PublicSquare leverages data and insights from the platform to assess its members’ needs and provide wholly-owned quality financing products, such as Credova, D2C products such as EveryLife diapers and wipes, and B2B products such as PSQ Link, to fill those needs. PublicSquare is free to join for both consumers and business owners alike, and to learn more, download the app on the App Store or Google Play, or visit PublicSquare.com.