UiPath Press Release

UiPath appoints new UK and Ireland managing director to lead growth in the region

February 25, 2020

UiPath, the leading AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, has appointed Chris Duddridge as Area Vice President and Managing Director of UK and Ireland. Chris will be responsible for driving automation adoption in the region and increasing UiPath’s market share.

With more than 20 years in sales and technology, Chris previously held the position of RVP of Sales for UK and Ireland at UiPath. An experienced sales leader, Chris has also held the position of Sales Director EMEA at an ERP provider where he grew a small UK sales team to a prominent market leader in the Benelux, DACH and MENA regions.

He said:

What UiPath is building, along with our partners, puts us in a privileged position to help some of the UK and Ireland’s leading organisations automate to improve their processes, make work more interesting for employees and increase efficiency. Automation isn’t always an easy project for companies, public sector agencies or government departments to negotiate, but it’s certainly made simpler by relying on the UiPath end-to-end hyperautomation platform which is the world’s best automation technology. For the year ahead, we will remain obsessed with investing heavily in our customers and supporting them fulfil their digital transformation requirements, all the while contributing to our company’s mission to empower everyone for the workplace of the future.

I am confident that Chris will flourish in leading our expansion across this key region. He is a role model for the team, steps into the heart of the action, creates hope, direction and belief. Under his already proven leadership, UiPath will stay customer-centric in the region and quickly respond and adapt to their needs and demands. Not lastly, he is the perfect fit to inspire his team to build the legacy of reshaping the way people work, every day.

Gavin Jackson, Managing Director EMEA at UiPath

About UiPath

UiPath (NYSE: PATH) is on a mission to uplevel knowledge work so more people can work more creatively, collaboratively, and strategically. The AI-powered UiPath Business Automation Platform combines the leading robotic process automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities to understand, automate, and operate end-to-end processes, offering unprecedented time-to-value. For organizations that need to evolve to survive and thrive through increasingly changing times, UiPath is The Foundation of Innovation™.

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