SANDNES, NORWAY: Boost.ai, a Nordic chief in conversational AI for enterprises, introduced that the enterprise technology expert Jerry Haywood is becoming a member of the company’s executive team as Chief Executive Officer efficient December 1, 2022.
Jerry Haywood brings 20 years of enterprise technology expertise with him and has held various gross sales and senior management positions at IBM, Cisco, and Salesforce.
He joins Boost.ai from LivePerson, a global technology firm that develops conversational commerce and AI software. Haywood will succeed founder and present CEO Lars Ropeid Selsås, who desires to devote extra time to product development and innovation.
Selsås, who was actively concerned within the choice process, alongside Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer Henry Vaage Iversen, and Chief Operating Officer Camilla Gjetvik, stated: “During this time of accelerated digital buyer expertise transformation, Boost.ai has by no means been higher positioned to become a global class chief in conversational AI.
This change in management is a pure step within the subsequent growth phase for Boost.ai. Jerry is a strong and skilled visionary chief who can construct on the solid basis created over the final six years, and we’re thrilled to have him join us.
While it’s his excellent track record that made him a pure candidate for this key management role, it was his personality and people-oriented management style that impressed us most. He is approachable, humble, and full of energy. A pure chief who can create outcomes whereas making it a enjoyable ride.”
Vaage Iversen added: “I am very happy that Jerry has agreed to join the Boost.ai team as CEO and I’m glad that we’re able to fulfil Lars’ desire to focus much extra on what he’s most passionate about – the technology wanted to fundamentally disrupt the conversational AI class and to proceed to present the best automated buyer interplay solution available on the market.”
For the final three years, Haywood has held the role of SVP EMEA at LivePerson, the place he led the strategic repositioning of the corporate in Europe, achieving spectacular growth. Prior to LivePerson, Haywood spent eight years at Salesforce, the place he headed up Service Cloud first within the UK, after which for the remainder of Europe, achieving a rise of over 30% in income and bookings year after year.
Haywood said: “I am actually excited and honoured to join the Boost.ai team, at a time the place the owners and management need to speed up growth whereas positioning the corporate as a global class chief within the conversational AI space. Boost.ai is already very acquainted to me. I have adopted their amazing journey closely and I am satisfied that the scale up has what it must go all of the way. Boost.ai has the best technology available and an amazing team with a few of the brightest minds within the industry. I need to thank the founders, the Board of Directors and Nordic Capital for his or her trust. I can’t wait to meet the team throughout the globe and get started.”
Haywood will balance his time between Stavanger, Norway, the place Boost.ai is headquartered, and London, UK, one of Boost.ai’s key markets, the place he lives with his spouse and three children.
Boost.ai specializes in enterprise-grade conversational synthetic intelligence (AI). Inventor of the world’s most scalable conversational AI platform, Boost.ai empowers enterprises to automate buyer support and internal support channels, improve human efficiency, and drive income with proprietary self-learning AI and a no-code solution that’s fast to deploy, easy to learn and extremely scalable.