# Shail Khiyara

> Shail Khiyara is the CEO of SWARM Engineering, an agentic AI platform that helps industrial operators in food, agriculture and logistics turn messy data into decisions. He built his name as the marketing and customer chief behind three of the biggest names in robotic process automation - Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism and UiPath - before founding VOCAL, a think tank of 90+ Fortune 500 brands. A civil engineer by training who once worked on dams and pipelines at Bechtel, he is a two-time LinkedIn Top Voice in AI and co-author of books on intelligent and agentic automation.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at SWARM Engineering
- **Organizations:** SWARM Engineering, VOCAL Council, UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Bechtel, Autodesk, Seagate Technology, Taleo, Verisign, Turbotic, Skan.ai, Robocorp, Workato
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MS, Civil Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), MBA, Yale University, Executive Education, Harvard Business School
- **Known for:** Two-time LinkedIn Top Voice in AI (2023 and 2024), Only executive to have led marketing/customer functions at all three major RPA firms: Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism and UiPath, Founder of VOCAL, a global think tank of 90+ Fortune 500 brands focused on AI adoption

## Career timeline

- **1988** — Earns MS in Civil Engineering from NJIT
- **1990s** — Works at Bechtel on Oil & Gas, Water, Mining, Transportation and Energy projects
- **2000s** — Marketing and executive roles at Autodesk, Seagate, Taleo (acquired by Oracle), Verisign and Spigit (acquired by Mindjet)
- **2010s** — Chief Marketing Officer / Chief Experience Officer at Automation Anywhere and Blue Prism
- **2018** — Chief Customer / Experience Officer at UiPath
- **2021** — Founds VOCAL, a think tank uniting 90+ Fortune 500 brands on AI adoption
- **2023** — Co-authors 'Intelligent Automation - Bridging the Gap between Business & Academia'; named LinkedIn Top Voice in AI
- **2024** — Named LinkedIn Top Voice in AI for a second year
- **2025** — Appointed CEO of SWARM Engineering (Feb 26, 2025)
- **2025** — Contributes to 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence' and publishes 'Agentic AI in the Enterprise', an Amazon best seller

## Achievements

- Two-time LinkedIn Top Voice in AI (2023 and 2024)
- Only executive to have led marketing/customer functions at all three major RPA firms: Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism and UiPath
- Founder of VOCAL, a global think tank of 90+ Fortune 500 brands focused on AI adoption
- Co-author of 'Intelligent Automation - Bridging the Gap between Business & Academia'
- Contributor to the Amazon best seller 'Agentic Artificial Intelligence' and author of 'Agentic AI in the Enterprise'
- Appointed CEO of SWARM Engineering in 2025
- Board and advisory roles at Turbotic, Skan.ai, Robocorp and Workato

## Latest updates

- **2025-02** — Appointed Chief Executive Officer of SWARM Engineering, an S2G-backed agentic AI platform
- **2025-04** — Featured in NJIT alumni profile on his journey from civil engineering to AI
- **2026-06** — SWARM's parent company profile lists a Series A funding round

## Links

- Website: https://swarm.engineering
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailkhiyara
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/SwarmEng

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Last updated: 2026-07-29