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.
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 the world’s fastest growing enterprise software company in history. He has raised more than $1 Billion from top-tier venture capital firms and public institutional investors. 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 2,900 people across 26 countries; and revenue from less than $1m to over $360m making UiPath the fastest-growing enterprise software company in history.
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Gavin Jackson
Senior VP Sales, UiPath
Experienced senior executive leader in technology.
Specialties: Know-how in expanding European/EMEA operations from small seed teams to major business contributors at scale. Results oriented P&L and sales owner. Proven business growth leader. Visionary leadership style with disciplined focus on sales execution and operational excellence. Passionate about emerging movements, emerging markets and emerging technology. Formation and operation of corporate strategy and cross-functional leadership.
Harvard Business School, Cranfield University and IMD Business School.
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Bogdan Ripa
VP, Product Management
As a VP of Product Management, Bogdan is leading the product team is UiPath responsible for the RPA development tools and robot execution framework, leading the RPA democratization efforts. Prior to UiPath he worked for Fitbit and Adobe in similar positions, plus some successful entrepreneurial endeavors.
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