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Changing the way the world works takes a dedicated, experienced, passionate team. We’re honored to lead our diverse global team as we define and deliver the future of intelligent automation. Meet our leaders and discover the depth and breadth of our experience—and inspiration.
Executive Vice President Customer Success & Operations and Co-Founder
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Neeti Mehta Shukla
Social Impact Officer and Co-Founder
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James Laufman
Chief Legal Officer
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Mihir Shukla
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Mihir is a visionary in the automation space and co-founder of Automation Anywhere. He pioneered the technology that empowers customers worldwide to automate business processes with intelligent software bots - AI-powered digital workers that perform repetitive and manual tasks, resulting in dramatic productivity gains, optimized customer experience and more engaged employees. His vision for intelligent automation powered by cloud-native technology has defined a new category in automation. Under his leadership, Automation Anywhere has become a global leader and continues to create groundbreaking technologies to accelerate digital transformation for some of the world's largest organizations. Prior to founding the company, Mihir held leadership roles in Internet, e-commerce, and wireless markets at the forefront of innovation.
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Vikram Khosla
Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer, Vikram brings a wealth of experience to Automation Anywhere, having previously led high-performance financial teams at public, private and SaaS software companies. His specialties include private equity, capital raises, M&A, and divestiture, as well as a decade-long tenure at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He brings financial and strategic leadership and commitment to operational excellence as we continue to scale our business. His most recent position was heading up Investor Relations and Corporate Finance for Anaplan. He holds a Bachelor's degree in commerce from Delhi University, India. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Accountant from India.
What you didn't know: Vikram lives in the Bay Area with his wife, son, and daughter. He is an ardent Cricket fan and enjoys spending weekends in Lake Tahoe, taking his family snowboarding and hiking.
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Ankur Kothari
Chief Customer & Strategy Officer and Co-Founder
Ankur is chief customer and strategy officer at Automation Anywhere where he leads an extensive customer success, support and renewal organization offering invaluable support to customers on their automation journey. Ankur provides a unique business perspective on extending the value of intelligent automation to new markets worldwide. As a co-founder, he has been a driving force ever since the company's inception playing critical leadership roles driving vision and strategy. With more than 17 years' experience in the software industry, he's held leadership positions focused on engineering, products, services and support.
What you didn't know: Ankur's aspirations include participating in Ironman and opening a microbrewery. In that order.
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Prince Kohli
Chief Technology Officer
Prince serves as the chief technology officer leading the product and engineering teams, bringing more than two decades of experience in the technology industry. He was most recently senior vice president of engineering at ThoughtSpot, a data analytics company. Prior to this, Prince held senior roles at Ericsson, running global R&D for all digital products with a team of more than 10,000 people and responsibilities for 92 product lines, including building large-scale cloud infrastructure and cloud-hosted management stacks. Prior to Ericsson, Prince held various executive leadership roles within the cloud and enterprise groups at Citrix, after co-founding a security start-up that was acquired by Citrix. While there, he worked with some of the world's largest companies and public cloud providers. Prince began his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics.
What you didn't know: When not working, Prince enjoys reading and a game - or two - of squash and bridge.
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Adi Kuruganti
Chief Product Officer
Adi is the chief product officer at Automation Anywhere where he leads the product, design, and content teams. Adi has spent the past two decades in product leadership roles primarily in enterprise technology. Adi brings a proven track record of launching new innovative products and scaling Cloud businesses.
As a 15-year veteran of Salesforce.com, Adi was SVP and General Manager of the Experience Cloud business unit. His expertise includes building cloud-first digital platforms, including customer and partner portals, commerce storefronts, websites, mobile apps, and other omnichannel digital experiences. During Adi's tenure at Salesforce, his team helped build vaccine management, contract tracing, and solutions that powered other digital transformation initiatives for customers around the world.
Adi holds a bachelor's in engineering degree from Northwestern University and a master's degree in business administration from the Kellogg School of Management.
What you didn't know: Adi loves reading about history and his bucket list includes visiting the seven wonders of the world! Outside of work you'll also find him at the local basketball court trying to keep up with his 11yr old son.
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Rob Ferguson
Chief Revenue Officer
Rob leads global sales and alliances at Automation Anywhere, helping organizations embrace the shift to a digital workforce that automates the right tasks and empowers humans to focus on what they do best: collaborate, create, and drive business success.
Prior to Automation Anywhere, Rob spent over a decade in senior sales leadership roles at Salesforce where he managed national and global go-to-market organizations. Rob also spent seven years at Oracle leading strategic accounts and held senior sales roles at Sybase and PTC.
What you didn't know: Rob lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, son, and daughter. He loves to play golf, ski, follow the Golden State Warriors as well as the Chelsea Football Club, and has been a passionate fan since childhood growing up in England. He is active with several non-profits. including Special Olympics Northern California, where he previously served on the board.
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Nancy Hauge
Chief People Experience Officer
Nancy oversees all "people" functions worldwide, including talent acquisition, communication, total rewards, learning and development, and employee engagement. She brings more than 30 years of experience in senior leadership and management consulting roles. Prior to joining Automation Anywhere, she was the chief people officer at HotChalk where she was responsible for all people functions, legal and facilities. Before that, Nancy served as the VP of global human resources and facilities at Silicon Image through its acquisition in 2015, and as SVP of human resources for K12 Inc. through their 2007 IPO. She also has executive experience at Ruckus Network, Noah's New York Bagels, Gymboree Corporation and Sun Microsystems. Nancy is the founder of the international consulting firm 2nd & Nun Street Group, which focuses on rapidly growing start-ups or established companies undergoing great change. She has served on the Board of Regents for Holy Names College and the Board of Advisors to The Cameron School of Business at The University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
What you didn't know: Nancy started her career in comedy. Writing and performing. Of course, Nancy admits that she is lucky she wasn't very good at that or she would not be here today.
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Sumit Johar
Chief Information Officer
Sumit is a 20+ year IT Executive specializing in Digital Transformation and Information Security. His expertise in delivering large-scale digital transformation has enabled him to spearhead Automation Anywhere's global IT vision and strategy to accelerate growth. A strong advocate for citizen development, he strongly believes that the true potential of a technology can only be exploited by democratizing it. His passion for 'drinking his own champagne' and making IT the best customer for our own technology has resulted in the creation of the company's first Automation Center of Excellence and a Customer Zero program. Sumit was CIO at Mobile Iron most recently and spent ten years at TIBCO managing their business application portfolio. He holds a Bachelors from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra.
What you didn't know: As a child, Sumit had a passion for astrophysics, studying the stars, and dreaming of unraveling the universe's secrets, leading him to become an engineer. Sumit lives in the Bay Area with his wife, son, and daughter in the perfect place to view the clear night skies.
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Rushabh Parmani
Executive Vice President Customer Success & Operations and Co-Founder
Rushabh and his team manage the customer experience for all Automation Anywhere customers worldwide. His ability to convey the RPA vision has been instrumental in instilling a successful culture of automation in this organization since its inception. Passionate about technology, Rushabh co-founded the company and has held other leadership roles including product development, sales, customer support, and professional services.
What you didn't know: Rushabh wants customers to realize high returns-similar to the high return he experienced bungee jumping from the world's highest bungee bridge in Bloukrans, South Africa.
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Neeti Mehta Shukla
Social Impact Officer and Co-Founder
Neeti is a Co-Founder and Social Impact Officer at Automation Anywhere, the world's leading RPA and intelligent automation success platform, delivering solutions to transform business processes. She is one of only a few women globally who have founded billion-dollar organizations.
A visionary and avid strategist, Neeti brings more than 25 years of technology entrepreneurship, marketing, brand development, and CSR experience from a wide variety of industries. She is also a vocal advocate of AI ethics in a world moving decisively towards disruptive technologies. She advocates for purpose-driven organizations and recently created Automation Anywhere's first Social Impact Office with a goal to pay it forward and touch 100 million humans through its outreach programs.
What you didn’t know: If Neeti was trapped on a desert island, she’d have to have music, chocolate, coffee, and books (the paper kind) to even consider survival.
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James Laufman
Chief Legal Officer
James is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Automation Anywhere, where he leads the legal, compliance, and corporate operations functions. James has led legal departments for nearly thirty years and has served as general counsel for several public companies, including Integrated Device Technology, Marvell Semiconductor, and Infinera Corporation. Known for his business acumen, pragmatism and accessible leadership, James has a wide breadth of knowledge and significant experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contract negotiation, intellectual property licensing, litigation management, labor and employment matters, and enterprise risk management.
What you didn't know: James is an avid sports fan and a father of five, all raised properly to root for the SF Giants.