# Yair Amsterdam

> Yair Amsterdam is Verbit’s CEO and a board member, based in Tel Aviv-Yafo. A former operations executive at Verint, Ex Libris and ProQuest, he became Verbit’s permanent CEO in June 2024 and is leading its expansion from transcription into speech insights, legal applications and media localization.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Verbit
- **Organizations:** Verbit, Verint, Ex Libris, ProQuest, Glassbox
- **Education:** BSc in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, MBA, summa cum laude, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- **Known for:** Graduated summa cum laude in chemical engineering and in his MBA., Led operations and customer experience at ProQuest before joining Verbit., Appointed permanent Verbit CEO after serving as interim CEO.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2013** — Worked for 13 years at Verint, including software development, support, supply chain and operations leadership.
- **2013-2017** — Served as COO of Ex Libris; publicly identified in the October 2017 continuity certification announcement.
- **2018-2022** — Served as COO of ProQuest.
- **2022** — Joined Verbit as COO; subsequently served as president.
- **2023** — Joined the Glassbox board in December, according to Crunchbase.
- **2024-02** — Became interim CEO of Verbit.
- **2024-06** — Appointed permanent CEO of Verbit on June 26.

## Achievements

- Graduated summa cum laude in chemical engineering and in his MBA.
- Led operations and customer experience at ProQuest before joining Verbit.
- Appointed permanent Verbit CEO after serving as interim CEO.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Vanderbilt Law announced student access to DepoSim, built by AltaClaro with Verbit, starting in fall 2026.
- **2026-06** — Brownstein announced DepoSim deployment across its litigation associate class.
- **2026-02** — AltaClaro and Verbit launched DepoSim on February 18.
- **2025-12** — Discussed Legal Visor and the limits of AI decision-making in a James Spiro interview published by Forbes Israel.
- **2025-09** — Verbit and Deepdub announced a partnership for automated dubbing from captioned media.

## Links

- Website: https://verbit.ai/leadership/yair-amsterdam/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yairamsterdam/

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