Meri Williams

MERI WILLIAMS

Chief Technology Officer
Pleo
Enterprise SaaS Corporate Spend
2025 TOP 30 EMEA CTOs 2025

Career History

Pleo is a cloud-based spend-management platform that issues smart company cards (both physical and virtual), automates invoices and expenses, and offers finance teams real-time visibility into business spend. Backed by major investors such as Tiger Global and Kinnevik, Pleo serves more than 40,000 companies across Europe and has raised over $430m, reaching a peak valuation of around $4.7bn.

Meri Williams has been Chief Technology Officer at Pleo since late 2022, leading engineering, IT, security, data and analytics functions, and driving the company’s push into more efficient product delivery and scalable systems. Under their leadership, Pleo has introduced architectural changes such as a move to API-first design, improved onboarding and ways of working across teams, and significantly boosted output while maintaining team headcount.

Before joining Pleo, Williams held CTO positions at organisations including Monzo, Healx, MOO, and others, bringing extensive experience in scaling tech operations. They studied Computer Science at the University of Bath.

About Pleo

Founded in Copenhagen in 2015 by Jeppe Rindom and Niccolo Perra, Pleo has grown rapidly as a business spend and expense management platform, offering smart cards, automated receipt capture, expense categorisation, and mobile and web apps.

The company has raised over $400m in funding from venture investors and secured additional debt financing; in FY2024, it reported 37% total revenue growth with 56% SaaS-revenue growth. Backed by major investors including Coatue, Alkeon, Bain Capital, and Kinnevik, Pleo is valued at around $1.7bn and continues to scale its team of nearly 900 employees across Europe.

Serving roughly 40,000 businesses across Europe, Pleo is expanding beyond core expense management with new cash-management and treasury tools, embedded-finance capabilities and deeper integrations with accounting platforms, positioning itself as a broader corporate spend and financial-operations hub for fast-growing companies.

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