Ushur adds Anthony Smolek as CFO to lead the next phase of its strategic growth
June 25 2024 - 11:00AM
Ushur, the leader in AI-powered Customer Experience Automation™
(CXA), today announced that Anthony Smolek has joined its executive
leadership team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Anthony brings
over 20 years of experience in leadership roles at Yahoo, Vevo,
Platform Science and other leading technology companies.
“I’m incredibly excited
to join Ushur at such a pivotal time in their growth,” said Smolek.
“Ushur’s unwavering commitment to being customer-centric, combined
with their innovative use of AI and automation, sets them apart in
transforming enterprise experiences. I’m eager to collaborate with
this talented global team to drive growth, efficiency and
profitability as we continue to scale.”
Smolek has an extensive
resume, having served in financial and strategic leadership roles
along with experience co-founding an enterprise technology startup.
He began his career in the financial world at Bear Stearns and went
on to work in strategy and operations roles at Yahoo before serving
as Chief Strategy Officer at Vevo.
“I am thrilled to have Anthony join the Ushur leadership team,”
said Simha Sadasiva, CEO and co-founder of Ushur. “As Ushur
continues on its trajectory of exponential growth, further
accelerated by the surge in adoption of our AI-first solutions, our
financial systems need to be ready. Anthony’s extensive background
in finance and corporate strategy, along with his proven leadership
in financial operations, makes him just the right leader at this
juncture of our journey.”
Smolek’s appointment to the CFO position follows a period of
accelerating growth for Ushur as it continues to bring AI-first
enterprise experience automation solutions to highly regulated
industries, especially focusing on healthcare, insurance, financial
services and public sector. Ushur has raised close to $100 million
to date from blue chip investors such as Third Point Ventures, 8VC
and Iron Pillar, all of whom reinvested in Ushur’s Series C round
of funding in early 2023.
About Ushur
Ushur delivers the world’s first AI-powered Customer Experience
Automation™ (CXA) platform purpose-built from the ground up to
intelligently automate entire customer journeys end to end.
Designed to provide delightful, hyper-personalized customer
experiences through rapid issue resolution and unified, omnichannel
engagement, Ushur is the first-of-its-kind system of enterprise
intelligence. It combines Conversational Automation and Knowledge
Work Automation in a secure, no-code, cloud-native SaaS platform to
digitally transform every step of the complete enterprise customer
experience, from Micro-Engagements™ to entire customer journeys.
Backed by leading investors including Third Point Ventures, 8VC,
Aflac Ventures and Iron Pillar, Ushur’s Customer Experience
Automation solutions are currently in production at some of the
leading healthcare and insurance companies across the globe,
including Irish Life, Aflac, Unum and Cigna.
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