Meeri is the CEO, CPO and Co-Founder of Saidot. Saidot is an AI governance company helping enterprises build safe AI-driven businesses. Saidot’s SaaS platform for AI Governance empowers AI product and business teams to do high-quality AI governance efficiently. It is used by major enterprises and public organisations to apply systematic AI governance in compliance with regulations and drive AI speed to market.

Meeri has been a member of Snap Inc.’s Safety Advisory Board since June 2023. She was the chair of the ethics working group in Finland’s national AI program, which submitted its final report in March 2019. Meeri is the former Chair of IEEE’s AI Certification Program and Impact Use Cases Initiatives and an alumn of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Prior to founding her own company, Meeri was leading AI strategy and GDPR implementation at OP Financial Group. Meeri has a long background in analytics and AI consulting with Accenture Analytics. During her Accenture years, she has been working in driving data and analytics strategies and large AI implementation programs in fintech, media, telecommunications, high-tech, and retail industries. Meeri started her career as a data scientist in telecommunications after completing her M.Sc.(Econ.) in Helsinki School of Economics.

Meeri is an active advocate of responsible and human-centric AI. She’s an experienced public speaker regularly speaking at international conferences and publishing writings on AI governance and policy.