Pliant Appoints Paul Harrald as CFO – Global

Paul Harrald has been appointed CFO – Global of B2B payments platform Pliant, effective 15 September 2025.

With over 25 years of experience as a London-based entrepreneur and executive across payment services, credit, and artificial intelligence, he joins our UK team while strengthening Pliant’s management on a global scale.

Harrald brings an impressive résumé to the table. Most recently, he created the personalized AI presence OnBe, designed to maintain personal context across AI instances. Before that, he served as Group CFO, CIO, and Head of Credit at Curve, the innovative London-based fintech payments card and wallet app. Harrald has also been a credit and risk advisor to Google, a hedge and venture capital fund manager, held executive banking roles, was part of the founding team of NewDay as CIO, tenured at the University of Manchester, and was Visiting Professor in Computing Science at UCL for five years.

In his new role, Harrald will support Pliant in further expanding its position as the leading platform for B2B credit cards.

“I am delighted to be joining Pliant at this pivotal stage of its journey. I have known members of the team on and off for nearly 15 years, and their ability to combine vision with precise execution has always stood out to me. Pliant has already built a leading B2B card management platform with extraordinary momentum, and I am excited by the opportunity to help shape the financial strategy that will support the next phase of global growth.” – Paul Harrald, CFO – Global of Pliant

Malte Rau, CEO of Pliant, emphasizes the significance of this step: “Paul’s track record of innovation and leadership across payments, credit, and technology is second to none. His deep expertise and global perspective make him the ideal partner as we scale Pliant internationally. With our US expansion happening later this year, having Paul’s financial and strategic leadership on board will be invaluable. We are thrilled to welcome him to the team and look forward to the impact he will have in driving our financial strategy and supporting our customers worldwide.”