Otto Williams

Otto Williams sits at the intersection of PayPal's enormous global distribution network and Africa's rapidly expanding digital workforce. As Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Middle East and Africa, he oversees a region where freelancers, merchants and businesses increasingly earn from customers abroad. PayPal's expansion of PYUSD — the company's dollar-denominated stablecoin — into additional markets creates another potential bridge between those two worlds. If stablecoins become embedded inside platforms Africans already use to invoice, receive and spend money, the technology stops looking revolutionary and starts looking ordinary. Williams belongs on Borderless 100 because PayPal has the distribution to make borderless dollars feel like a normal payment method.