Kristo Käärmann

Kristo Käärmann

Co-founder and CEO of Wise, global tech company building the best way to move money around the world. Prior to starting Wise, Kristo was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He worked with European banks and insurers to modernise their processes and systems. Stunned by their inefficiency, he teamed up with Taavet Hinrikus, then Skype's director of strategy, to develop an entirely new system for moving money across borders. Kristo was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2015.

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World, meet Wise

Today, we’re changing our name from TransferWise to Wise. Our customers now need us for more than money transfers. Sending, spending, and receiving money...

Kristo Käärmann
Kristo Käärmann
22.02.21 Read time 2 minutes
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Mission Update Q2 2020

To the Wise community, How much closer did we get to making our mission of Money Without Borders a reality in Q2 2020? A reminder on our mission - we...

Kristo Käärmann
Kristo Käärmann
16.09.20 Read time 9 minutes

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