Management Team | Automation Anywhere

Ankur Kothari Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder Read more Ankur Kothari Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder Ankur heads Automation Anywhere’s global revenue generation and customer operations strategies. As a co-founder, he has been a driving force from the company’s inception, playing critical leadership roles in determining and implementing the company’s vision and strategy, as well as in the engineering, product, services, and support divisions. With more than 15 years’ experience in the software industry, Ankur has developed a unique business perspective on globally extending the value of automation to new markets, introducing robot-human partnerships to key executives worldwide, and translating the business impact of automation to large enterprises, service providers, system integrators, advisors, shared services, and GICs. What you didn’t know: Ankur’s aspirations include participating in Ironman and opening a microbrewery. In that order.	Clyde Hosein Chief Financial Officer Read more Clyde Hosein Chief Financial Officer Clyde Hosein brings more than 30 years of finance, engineering and operational experience to Automation Anywhere in his role as chief financial officer. Clyde is responsible for the finance, legal, IT, and facilities functions worldwide. Prior to joining Automation Anywhere, he held chief financial officer positions at RingCentral, Marvell Technology Group, IDTI, and Candescent Technologies. He was also the chief operating officer at Marvell for a period. Earlier in his career, Clyde held various engineering, operations and finance positions at IBM. Clyde is a highly regarded executive in the technology industry and is well-known by the investment community. He was named by Institutional Investor as one of the top three CFOs in the semiconductor industry from 2010 to 2012, before leaving that industry to join the SaaS industry. He also sits on the board of directors of Cree, Inc.—a publicly traded company that develops and manufactures LED and semiconductor products. What you didn’t know: When not working, Clyde drives his 45-foot RV bus around the country.	Mihir Shukla CEO and Co-Founder Read more Mihir Shukla CEO and Co-Founder A serial disrupter, Mihir founded Automation Anywhere in 2003. A visionary in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, Mihir pioneered the Digital Workforce—software bots that automate business processes with both cognitive capability and embedded analytics—driving unprecedented human productivity while dramatically reducing processing costs for the world’s largest enterprises. Under Mihir’s leadership, Automation Anywhere has become a global leader in this rapidly growing industry generating more revenue, with more employees, and a greater market share than its top three competitors combined. Prior to Automation Anywhere, Mihir held leadership roles in internet, e-commerce, and wireless companies at the forefront of innovation such as E2Open, Kiva, ISN, Netscape, Infoseek, and Omnisky. What you didn’t know: Mihir doesn’t mind an uphill battle; he’s an avid marathoner and uphill biker.
Neeti Mehta Senior Vice President, Brand Strategy & Culture Architect and Co-Founder Read more Neeti Mehta Senior Vice President, Brand Strategy & Culture Architect and Co-Founder Neeti is a co-founder and senior vice president of Automation Anywhere, leading brand and culture strategies, and initiatives across the company. An avid strategist, she brings over 20 years of business management, marketing and entrepreneurial experience from a wide variety of industries, including technology, business consulting, and advertising. Neeti thrives on holistically negotiating the continuously evolving character of marketing programs and loves to “play customer” personifying the voice of the customer. She is the company’s thought leader and vocal advocate of “bot ethics” in a world moving decisively towards AI. Neeti influences business strategy in scaling and driving company success. She defines and develops the Automation Anywhere brand as the world's leading intelligent Digital Workforce provider. She is also responsible for working across company divisions in maintaining focus on superior user experiences, helping to drive customer success. 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.		Gary Conway Chief Marketing Officer Read more Gary Conway Chief Marketing Officer Gary has years of marketing leadership experience, having been chief marketing officer at many technology companies both large and smaller, with deep marketing experience at PeopleSoft, Nextel, Sprint, JDA, Achievers, Jasper, and others. His years of experience includes both B-to-B and B-to-C companies, both in the United States and abroad. Gary has undergraduate and graduate degrees from Syracuse University. What you didn’t know: Gary has finally realized that he will never ski as well today as he did in his 20’s.
		Rushabh Parmani Senior Vice President, Customer Success & Operations, and Co-Founder Read more Rushabh Parmani Senior 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.	Prince Kohli Chief Technology Officer Read more Prince Kohli Chief Technology Officer Prince serves as chief technology officer, 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.	Abhijit Kakhandiki Senior Vice President, Products and Engineering Read more Abhijit Kakhandiki Senior Vice President, Products and Engineering A seasoned executive with a proven track record in new product development, go-to-market, and improved product P&L performance, Abhijit oversees Automation Anywhere’s product strategy, design, engineering, and delivery. His rich experience includes leading Autodesk’s transformation to the cloud, directing the team for Oracle’s next generation Innovation Management Cloud initiative, and steering product management and strategy for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) at Agile Software, where he delivered rapid product and customer experience improvement. Abhijit’s entrepreneurial endeavors consist of multiple M&As, including a successful exit for his own startup, ATMA software, which is now part of Oracle. What you didn’t know: Besides forging successful product paths in the corporate world, Abhijit has also made tracks in nature—particularly upward. (He’s climbed Machu Picchu, Mt. Whitney, Mt. Shasta, Half Dome, and Mt. Fuji, to name a few!)
	Nancy Hauge Chief Human Resources Officer Read more Nancy Hauge Chief Human Resources 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.	Mark Fletcher Executive Vice President, Global Sales Read more Mark Fletcher Executive Vice President, Global Sales Based in our Boston office, Mark is the executive responsible for global sales, managing a team across four continents. With over 30 years of experience in the software market, and with the last 15+ years devoted to automation solutions, Mark has been instrumental in bringing the promise of Robotic Process Automation technology to the world’s largest banks, financial services, telecom, technology, retail, and BPO organizations, with an emphasis on strategic transformation projects. Previously, Mark held key technical, sales, marketing, operations, and leadership roles in the USA and Europe, at companies such as ORSYP Software, UC4, AppWorx, and Macro 4 plc. What you didn't know: Mark's early working career actually began on a professional soccer ("football") field.	Peter Meechan Chief Corporate Development Officer Read more Peter Meechan Chief Corporate Development Officer Peter's global operating experience includes being a public corporation senior executive, start-up CEO, venture capital and private equity advisor, and board member. Previously, he was COO of ABBYY, a 1,250+ person company pioneering intelligent content capture and cognitive computing. Passionately focused on exceptional innovation, Peter has made notable contributions in deploying Adobe Flash® on more than a billion mobile devices, Academy Award® winning software applications, digital home foundational inventions, and to four exits. He held SVP roles at multi-billion-dollar corporations, including Macromedia/Adobe, SONY, Intellectual Ventures and Calera Capital, mobile and devices, multiple business unit VP/GM roles, and executive partner. What you didn't know: Peter was one of four animators on an Emmy Award-winning visual effects production and served on the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Foundation board.	Anubhav Saxena Executive Vice President, Partnerships, Strategy & Operations Read more Anubhav Saxena Executive Vice President, Partnerships, Strategy & Operations Anubhav leads the company’s partnership programs for advisories, technology and service providers, including value added reseller alliances worldwide. He brings more than 20 years of experience to this role being responsible for strategy, enablement and operations. Anubhav has served as a global operating leader and on executive boards bringing deep experience in a wide range of technology products and services. Prior to joining Automation Anywhere, he was president at Information Services Group (ISG), senior vice president at HCL Technologies, and regional business head at Wipro Limited. Anubhav has been a co-founder of businesses within organizations which have grown into billion-dollar companies. He is often referenced in business publications, including Harvard Business Press and Wiley. What you didn’t know: Anubhav aspires to be his generation’s most meaningful philanthropist, futurist, and philosopher.
Rajesh Radhakrishnan Senior Vice President, Sales & Cognitive Automation Read more Rajesh Radhakrishnan Senior Vice President, Sales & Cognitive Automation A senior executive with more than 20 years of experience building high growth businesses, Rajesh leads the company's rapid expansion into the cognitive automation market as the senior vice president of sales. In this role, he owns revenue, strategy, and services for all new automation technology solutions and works closely with the product team to deliver success. Prior to Automation Anywhere, Rajesh served as the CRO of GlobalLogic, where he managed $400M in revenue. He also brings deep business process knowledge from his experience running a $3.5B P&L for the apps and BPO unit at HP. In addition, Rajesh has built and led product organizations at Mercury, Veritas, Healtheon/WebMD, and Oracle. What you didn’t know: Rajesh has spent time aboard a raft in crocodile-infested waters of the Amazon river, has had a close encounter with a bear while hiking in Kings Canyon National Park, and has driven to the edge of the Sahara Desert in Maghreb.				Robert Youngjohns Chief Channels Officer Read more Robert Youngjohns Chief Channels Officer Robert is the CCO at Automation Anywhere responsible for driving mutual market success with our global business partners. Prior joining Automation Anywhere, Robert held multiple leadership roles, including EVP at HPE Software, President of Microsoft North America, and CEO of Callidus Cloud. Robert is a graduate of Oxford University, where he read Physics and Philosophy. What you didn’t know: Robert's passions include sailing and flying small airplanes. Big ambition for 2019 is to take part in the Transpac - one of the epic ocean sailboat races from LA to Hawaii.
		Adrian Jones Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan Read more Adrian Jones Executive Vice President, Asia Pacific & Japan Adrian is responsible for managing business development and sales across the Asia Pacific & Japan region at Automation Anywhere. He brings more than two decades of enterprise experience and skill in senior leadership and management roles acquired from leading global technology-based companies. Before joining Automation Anywhere, Adrian was the EVP of global sales at Symantec, where he led a team in charge of worldwide sales and driving enterprise growth in security. He also held SVP titles at Oracle Corporation and the Hewlett-Packard covering the Asia Pacific region, and ran the largest channel in the world when he ran HP Americas. What you didn’t know: Adrian played semi-professional soccer until he was 38 and he was a radio presenter for a local radio station in the UK in his early life.	Milan Sheth EVP, IMEA Read more Milan Sheth EVP, IMEA Milan is a seasoned professional with more than 20 years of experience in advising the boards of leading public companies in digital services, technology-enabled business transformation, and functional transformations. As an Executive Vice president – IMEA, he is responsible for strengthening of the world-class talent pool, expanding of partner ecosystem and delivering business outcomes for customers. Before joining Automation Anywhere, Milan served as the Senior Partner and National Director for Technology Business at Ernst & Young (EY), for over 18 years. In his last role, he was managing partner of Technology, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications consulting business. He was also a global co-lead for the company’s Intelligent Automation Practice, and managed client service in the emerging markets geographies. What you didn’t know: Milan has been practicing yoga for more than a decade and seeks to achieve inner peace without diluting ambitious life goals.

Board Members and Advisors

Mihir Shukla CEO and Co-Founder Read more Mihir Shukla CEO and Co-Founder A serial disrupter, Mihir founded Automation Anywhere in 2003. A visionary in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, Mihir pioneered the Digital Workforce—software bots that automate business processes with both cognitive capability and embedded analytics—driving unprecedented human productivity while dramatically reducing processing costs for the world’s largest enterprises. Under Mihir’s leadership, Automation Anywhere has become a global leader in this rapidly growing industry generating more revenue, with more employees, and a greater market share than its top three competitors combined. Prior to Automation Anywhere, Mihir held leadership roles in internet, e-commerce, and wireless companies at the forefront of innovation such as E2Open, Kiva, ISN, Netscape, Infoseek, and Omnisky. What you didn’t know: Mihir doesn’t mind an uphill battle; he’s an avid marathoner and uphill biker.	John Giannuzzi Vice President, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division Read more John Giannuzzi Vice President, Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division John is a vice president at Goldman Sachs in the Merchant Banking Division. In this role, John leads investments in growth stage enterprise technology companies, with a specific focus on software. He serves on several technology company boards. John joined Goldman Sachs in 2010 in the Investment Banking Division. What you didn’t know: John is a private pilot, and when not working with cloud software, enjoys flying planes.	Kathleen Holmgren Chief Officer, Future Workforce Read more Kathleen Holmgren Chief Officer, Future Workforce A seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in high tech and management consulting, Kathleen works as an agent of change in institutions of higher learning to influence advances in curriculum and collaborates with faculty in preparing the future workforce to be RPA-ready. Operating under the idea that if you want to change the future of work, you must also change the future workforce, Kathleen has already been influential in the educational realm, having served on the advisory board at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and currently at Cal Poly’s College of Engineering. As she continues to work with schools of engineering, business, and computer science, Kathleen is able to draw on her extensive corporate leadership resume, including most recently serving as COO of Automation Anywhere, and previously as Sun Microsystem’s Senior VP/GM, where she rapidly grew Sun’s storage business to a 1.5-billion-dollar business in 3 years. What you didn’t know: Kathleen dreams of owning a house in the Italian countryside—and we’re all looking forward to taking her up on the room and board we’re certain she would offer us.	Bask Iyer Chief Information Officer, Dell & VMware Read more Bask Iyer Chief Information Officer, Dell & VMware Bask is the CIO for both Dell and VMware, overseeing the critical technology systems supporting some of the world’s largest global business and commerce operations. He is also responsible for driving Dell and VMware’s digital transformation. A respected industry veteran, Bask brings more than 25 years of experience in executing and driving change in traditional Fortune 100 manufacturing companies and Silicon Valley-based technology firms. Prior to joining VMware, he served as senior vice president and CIO at Juniper Networks. He also served as CIO at Honeywell and at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham for consumer healthcare research and development, where he was also the company’s e-commerce leader. In 2017, Bask was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame. A respected industry veteran, Bask brings more than 25 years of experience in executing and driving change in traditional Fortune 100 manufacturing companies and Silicon Valley-based technology firms. Prior to joining VMware, he served as senior vice president and CIO at Juniper Networks. He also served as CIO at Honeywell and at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham for consumer healthcare research and development, where he was also the company’s e-commerce leader. In 2017, Bask was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame. What you didn’t know: Bask loves playing classic rock on his Gibson Les Paul guitar and would rather be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!	Ankur Kothari Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder Read more Ankur Kothari Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder Ankur heads Automation Anywhere’s global revenue generation and customer operations strategies. As a co-founder, he has been a driving force from the company’s inception, playing critical leadership roles in determining and implementing the company’s vision and strategy, as well as in the engineering, product, services, and support divisions. With more than 15 years’ experience in the software industry, Ankur has developed a unique business perspective on globally extending the value of automation to new markets, introducing robot-human partnerships to key executives worldwide, and translating the business impact of automation to large enterprises, service providers, system integrators, advisors, shared services, and GICs. What you didn’t know: Ankur’s aspirations include participating in Ironman and opening a microbrewery. In that order.
Manoj Leelanivas Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Juniper Networks Read more Manoj Leelanivas Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Juniper Networks Manoj serves as the executive vice president and chief product officer of Juniper Networks. In this role, Manojmanages alignment between product and go-to-market strategy and execution, overseeing product and marketing, while focusing on deploying technology that anticipates and solves customer and industry needs. What you didn’t know: Manoj loves to travel and snowboard and he calls himself a perpetual rookie in golf.	Peter Munzig Managing Director, General Atlantic Read more Peter Munzig Managing Director, General Atlantic Peter is a managing director at General Atlantic and focuses on investments in the firm’s technology sector. Peter originally joined General Atlantic in 2005 and rejoined again after receiving his MBA in 2009. During business school in the summer of 2008, Peter worked at Torex, a General Atlantic portfolio company in the UK, on a range of strategic and operational initiatives. Prior to joining the firm, he was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs where he advised clients in the industrial, consumer, and technology sectors on a wide range of M&A and corporate finance transactions.	Scott Sandell Managing General Partner, NEA Read more Scott Sandell Managing General Partner, NEA Scott is the managing general partner at NEA. A general partner since 2000 and co-managing general partner from 2015 – 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments in industry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named on the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 23 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers. Prior to joining NEA, Scott was a product manager at Microsoft, and the first salesperson at C-ATS Software, where he later co-founded and ran the company’s European subsidiary. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group.	Rob Theis General Partner, World Innovation Labs Read more Rob Theis General Partner, World Innovation Labs Rob is a general partner with World Innovation Lab and invests in a broad range of multi-stage technology companies with exceptional growth, including Auth0, BirdEye, BrightRoll, DocuSign, Fortinet, HubSpot, PGP Corporation, RingCentral, and VanceInfo. Rob works closely with committed entrepreneurs to create businesses that are revolutionary and become leaders in their respective markets. He has invested in over 25 companies creating an aggregate capitalization of $42 Billion with 7 IPOs and 11 acquired. Rob has a BA in Economics & Computer Science from University of Pittsburgh. What you didn’t know: He’s an avid rock climber, scuba diver, sailboat racer and a member of the Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Team.