Aiqudo, the AI pioneer bringing natural language voice commands to mobile apps, announced the appointment of Jatin Mehta to Vice President, Business Development.
“I spent the better part of the last two years evangelizing voice and saw firsthand how conversational AI has revolutionized our interaction with technology”
“Jatin is joining us at an exceptional time – just as app developers and companies more broadly are recognizing that voice interfaces present an opportunity to create a new, branded experience for their consumers. It’s not enough to build an Alexa Skill and call it a day for voice,” said Aiqudo CEO John Foster. “Jatin will focus on helping our partners develop their own unique branded approach to voice.”
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Mehta joins Aiqudo after wrapping more than five years at Amazon where he most recently focused on Alexa’s monetization efforts. Previously Mehta recruited third-party partners and developers to launch Alexa in Canada and prior to that headed business development and strategy at Amazon Consumer Payments.
“I spent the better part of the last two years evangelizing voice and saw firsthand how conversational AI has revolutionized our interaction with technology,” Mehta said. “I am thrilled to join Aiqudo because it is uniquely positioned to redefine the relationships consumers have with their devices and mobile apps using voice.”
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Prior to his work at Amazon, Mehta spent more than 7 years at Dell as part of its corporate development and Dell Ventures team, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and investments in enterprise software, the cloud and hardware sectors.
Mehta earned both his bachelor’s degree and MBA from Purdue University.
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