We’ve assembled a cast of world-class automation pioneers to share their experience from stage to your notebook.
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Daniel Dines
Founder and CEO
Daniel Dines is the founder and CEO of UiPath, the fastest growing and leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a technology that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, UiPath is the most highly-valued AI enterprise software company.
With a vision to deliver A Robot for Every Person, Dines is committed to ushering in the “automation first” era; an era delivering both substantial productivity gains and also higher employee satisfaction and engagement to businesses of all sizes. Dines is focused on helping the workforce adapt to this change through a global commitment to democratize RPA, offering free training, software and programs to help skill, reskill, and upskill the workforce of the future.
Since incorporating UiPath in 2015, and moving its headquarters to New York in 2017, Dines has led the company through substantial growth becoming one of the world’s fastest growing enterprise software company in history. In September 2019, Dines was featured as Boss of the Bots on the cover of Forbes magazine.
Dines began his engineering career at Microsoft where he designed and developed the SQL Server Agent. Still a hacker at heart, he is active in driving the company’s RPA platform and supporting over 500,000 developers who are building automations on the UiPath platform.
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Param Kahlon
Chief Product Officer
Param Kahlon is the Chief Product Officer at UiPath. In his role at UiPath, he is responsible for product strategy and roadmap. Prior to UiPath, Param was a General Manager at Microsoft responsible for Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps (sales, customer service, and field service) and, prior to Microsoft, managed customer service and order management products for SAP and Siebel/Oracle. Param has been in the enterprise software space for over two decades leading strategic planning, CRM product management, and new product introduction. Param holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Punjabi University, India.
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Guy Kirkwood
Chief Evangelist
Guy Kirkwood, as chief evangelist of UiPath, is using RPA and AI to reboot work with a robot for every person. Joining in 2015 when UiPath was 27 people in one city, Guy has helped the company to grow to 3,300 people across 25 countries; and from $1m to $250m in ARR, making UiPath the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history.
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Bobby Patrick
Chief Marketing Officer
Having begun his career at 16 as a computer specialist with the FBI, Bobby Patrick is now Chief Marketing Officer of UiPath, the fastest growing enterprise software company in history and leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI. For over two decades Bobby has driven significant growth in technology businesses, ranging from Fortune 50 to start-ups. Before joining UiPath, Bobby served as CMO for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $4 Billion-dollar Cloud business. He served previously as CMO for Basho (acquired by Bet365), GXS (acquired by OpenText), and Digex (acquired by Verizon). He strongly believes that digital workforces will reshape businesses in their journey to become digital enterprises, complementing and empowering the human workforce to better business outcomes, job satisfaction, and workplace experiences.
