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What we do
We focus on innovation for data and business teams
We are dedicated to bringing predictive insights to everyone.
We help companies of all sizes adopt predictive analytics to solve real business problems without big technical teams. We achieve this with customizable solutions and a no-code environment, enabling our customers to improve efficiency and accelerate growth.
Our vision is a future where business teams use advanced analytics to achieve remarkable results at scale. We see a world where every company can access the latest AI technology to drive improved business outcomes.
We believe that confidence and innovation must go together, so we uphold the highest ethical standards, ensuring transparency, honesty, and trust in all our interactions as a team and with our customers and partners.
Leadership Team
Experienced, results-driven Leadership
Proven expertise in business, AI, and cloud for exceptional results.
Hassan Ahmed, Ph.D.
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder
Hassan is a successful serial entrepreneur. Dr. Ahmed most recently served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of Affirmed Networks, which was acquired by Microsoft in April 2020. Before founding Affirmed Networks in 2010, he was a senior advisor at Charles River Ventures. From 1998 to 2008, Dr. Ahmed served as Chairman and CEO of Sonus Networks. Prior to that time, he served in various executive roles at Ascend Communications, Cascade Communications and Analog Devices. Dr. Ahmed previously served as Associate Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering and Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University. He also serves as a Director of Ciena.
Dr. Ahmed holds a BSEE and MSAE from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Dr. Ahmed holds a BSEE and MSAE from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
Amir Atai, Ph.D.
VP of BD and Solutions, Co-Founder
Amir is an entrepreneur and innovator. He has been an executive member of three successful and market-changing startups: Telica (acquired by Nokia), Affirmed Networks (acquired by Microsoft), and Parallel Wireless. Amir is passionate about improving customers’ performance and effectiveness by questioning the status-quo assumptions, bringing together, and leading an expert team of diverse backgrounds toward innovative and needle-moving solutions. Amir also has executive experience working for large companies. He was Chief Scientist at Bellcore and later at Alcatel/Nokia. He was also CTO at Ericsson, where he led the first nationwide LTE network rollout in the world. Amir is an expert in complex modeling techniques, math, and statistics, where he has developed cutting-edge modeling tools.
He holds a BS and MS from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Computer and Electrical Engineering.
He holds a BS and MS from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Computer and Electrical Engineering.
Jitender Arora
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
Jitender is an entrepreneur and product leader with over 20 years of experience in building large-scale B2B and B2C products. Prior to co-founding Sway AI, he successfully led the product management of Amazon Alexa AI/ML Platform. He had founded Korrent Corporation, a disruptive Connected Health business. He was engineering and product leader at Acme Packet since nearly the company’s inception, he built and launched multiple market-leading products, Oracle acquired Acme Packet for $2.1 B. He also held senior roles at Oracle and Parallel Wireless. He has 20+ US patents pending and issued.
Jitender holds a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology and an MBA from Boston University.
Jitender holds a BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology and an MBA from Boston University.
Austin True
VP of Sales
As the Vice President of Sales, Austin brings an impressive track record of building and leading highly successful sales teams in the data technology space. Before joining Sway AI, he was most recently focused on establishing the North American Enterprise Sales team at Ably. Prior to that, he spent 7 years at Tableau; beginning his tenure as an Account Executive and departing as a Regional Vice President of Sales for the East & Central Mid-Market regions.
Austin believes that in order for go-to-market teams to be the most successful, they should not default to the classic role of “advisors.” but rather take co-ownership of their customers’ business problems and partner with them in the pursuit of solving for them.
Austin holds a BA in Business Administration from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
Austin believes that in order for go-to-market teams to be the most successful, they should not default to the classic role of “advisors.” but rather take co-ownership of their customers’ business problems and partner with them in the pursuit of solving for them.
Austin holds a BA in Business Administration from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
Dan Darnell, MBA
VP of Marketing
Dan is an experienced marketer with over twenty years of experience leading marketing and product marketing teams for data and AI technology companies. For the past twelve years, he has worked on AI platforms and applications, including senior marketing roles at Dataiku, DataRobot, H2O.ai, Talend, and Baynote. Before that, Dan focused on analytics and landing page optimization technologies. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's in engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Investors and Advisors
Experience and Success
Sway-AI’s experienced investors and advisors are helping us build a great company.
John Vrionis
Investor
John Vrionis
Investor
John Vrionis is a Co-Founder and Partner at Unusual Ventures. A venture capitalist since 2006, he’s been an early investor in over a dozen billion dollar plus companies, including: Affirmed Networks, AppDynamics, Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Harness, Liftoff.io, Mulesoft, Nicira, Nimble Storage, Sourcegraph, and DataStax. Originally from Georgia, John attended Harvard where he studied economics, applied math and played soccer. His drive to learn pushed him to earn his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Chicago. Inspired by successful entrepreneurs, John arrived in Silicon Valley in 2002 and worked in product management before completing his MBA at Stanford. Prior to founding Unusual Ventures, John was a General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Greg McAdoo
Investor
Greg McAdoo
Investor
General partner at Bolti.io, former senior partner Sequoia capital, and has investments in many successful companies including Airbnb.
Allen Salmasi
Investor
Allen Salmasi
Investor
Currently, CEO and Chairman of Veea Inc. Formerly, CSO & President of Qualcomm Wireless, Chairman & CEO of NextWave Wireless, Chairman and CEO of Omninet Corporation.
Hossein Moiin
Advisor
Hossein Moiin
Advisor
Former Nokia CTO, T-Mobile, BT.
Atif Rafiq
Advisor
Atif Rafiq
Advisor
Former Executive and Digital Officer at Amazon, Yahoo, AOL, McDonalds, MGM, and Volvo.
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