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Mihir Shukla Is Rewriting the Office’s Oldest Habit: Busywork
He left a PhD path for the early internet, watched office workers copy data between screens, and spent two decades turning that frustration into Automation Anywhere. Now his bet is larger: AI should change the design of work, not merely add another tool to it.
Sierra Hit $15.8B, Aisera Got Bought. The Agents Grew Up.
Two AI customer service companies took very different exits from the same stretch of the agentic-AI boom. One raised nearly a billion dollars at a $15.8B valuation; the other got folded into a bigger machine. The split says a lot about where enterprise AI is heading.
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.
Muchammad Rifky
Muchammad Rifky is the Chief Executive Officer for Indonesia at Automation Anywhere, one of the world's leading enterprise automation and AI software companies headquartered in San Jose, California. Leading Indonesia operations for a company with over $1 billion in total funding and nearly 1,900 employees globally, Rifky bridges the gap between Automation Anywhere's cutting-edge AI-driven robotic process automation platform and one of Southeast Asia's largest and fastest-growing markets. His career path - from hospitality sales at Jakarta's top hotels to leading country operations for a Silicon Valley-backed unicorn - reflects the kind of cross-domain journey that defines modern tech adoption in emerging markets.
Murad Hasan
Murad Hasan serves as Chief Executive Officer for Automation Anywhere's Bangladesh operations, leading enterprise automation and AI initiatives across one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing technology markets. He represents a global leader in robotic process automation - a company that raised over $1 billion in funding and generates nearly half a billion dollars in annual revenue - at the country level in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Rob Theis
Rob Theis is General Partner and Chief Investment Officer at World Innovation Lab (WiL), a Palo Alto-based venture firm bridging innovation between the US and Japan with over $1.9 billion in capital commitments. With 18+ years of VC experience and a prior career as a tech operator at Sun Microsystems and co-founder of NEON (acquired by IBM), Theis has backed companies with an aggregate market cap exceeding $85 billion, including HubSpot, DocuSign, RingCentral, and Auth0. He also volunteers as a Sheriff cliff and mountain rescue specialist in his spare time.