Wise, the global technology firm focused on international money movement, has appointed Scott Hill to its board as an independent non-executive director. Hill brings decades of high-level experience leading and serving on the boards of major global technology and consumer businesses.
Hill’s extensive background includes a 14-year tenure between 2007 and 2021 as the chief financial officer of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., the pioneering fintech parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. Earlier in his career, he served as an international finance executive for IBM from 1991 to 2007. Currently, Hill holds the position of chairman of the board of directors at CS Disco and serves as a board member and chair of the audit committee at Cardlytics.
Capturing a $43trillion market opportunity
The leadership at Wise highlighted Hill’s specific expertise as a major asset for the company’s next phase of growth. Kristo Käärmann, co-founder and chief executive officer of Wise, emphasized that Hill brings significant public company, finance, and U.S. markets expertise to the table. Käärmann noted that the addition strengthens the board as the company actively pushes to capture a greater share of the $43trillion annual market opportunity for cross-border payments.
David Wells, chair at Wise, echoed this sentiment, stating that Hill’s deep experience as an operator, board member, and former CFO of a global exchange makes him the perfect candidate to help the company pursue its overarching vision of building money without borders.
Disrupting a regulated environment
Commenting on his new role, Hill reflected on his time spent scaling a founder-led fintech company and the valuable lessons he learned about disrupting highly regulated environments. He expressed his eagerness to bring those learnings to Wise, praising the company’s deeply embedded culture of customer obsession. Hill highlighted the rarity of finding a firm so deeply committed to the single problem of building transparent and fair cross-border payments for millions of users globally.
Launched in 2011, Wise has grown into one of the world’s fastest-growing and profitable tech companies. In its 2025 fiscal year, the firm supported approximately 15.6 million individuals and businesses, successfully processing over $197billion in cross-border transactions and saving its customers an estimated $2.7billion.
