Melani Smith Weed

Melani Smith-Weed, VP of Customer Engagement, has over 25 years of international business and technology experience. Ms. Smith-Weed is a co-inventor of the Sertainty Intelligent Cipher Transfer Object technologies. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Smith-Weed served the Financial Products division of Caterpillar, Inc. holding positions in both business and technology management. At “Cat Financial,” her primary area of expertise was business and process analysis relating to the technological needs of the international offices for Caterpillar Financial. Having developed fluency in both French and Spanish, she directed various international locales in understanding the requirements, ensuring compliance with and the clean integration of highly regulated process flows. Ms. Weed’s extensive international exposure included representation of Caterpillar at both their “internal dealer networks” as well as the “external” customer/end user and setting up new subsidiaries in Sweden, Thailand, Korea, and Peru. She is a graduate of Franklin College of Indiana with a degree in Computer Information Science and a minor in Business. She also attended Harlaxton College in Grantham, England, where she studied international business and economics.