Meri Williams is Chief Technology Officer at international fintech unicorn Pleo, a cloud-based spend management system that issues smart company cards to employees to automate expenses, pays invoices and provides real-time insights into businesses end-to-end spending.
Meri’s role involves leading the technology team, spanning engineering, IT, security, data and analytics, with an especial focus on technical innovation within Pleo’s product.
Meri can talk about a broad range of topics and their areas of expertise include the role of technology in changing the current business landscape, AI and how it is driving innovation within finance, building & scaling tech teams, recruiting engineers, LGBTQ+ inclusion, STEM education & career paths for CTOs.
About Pleo
Pleo is a Danish-founded business spending and expense management platform offering smart payment cards (both physical and virtual), coupled with software and mobile apps. It empowers employees to purchase what they need without manual expense reports, while giving finance teams full visibility and control.
The company was founded in Copenhagen in 2015, by fintech veterans Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra. Both were early members of Tradeshift. Their business expense card are used by 40,000 businesses across 16 European countries.