Magically schedule meetings
That’s us. That’s all we think about. x.ai is a personal assistant that lets you use email to schedule meetings. You speak to amy@x.ai as you would to any other person – and you can have her do all the tedious email ping pong that comes along with arranging a meeting.
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ABOUT
Founded in 2014, x.ai builds and maintains an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for our business customers. Located in New York and backed by its founders and blue chip investors like Softbank Capital, IA Ventures, Lerer Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and CrunchFund.
FOUNDING TEAM
We are a hardcore technology company, but we also understand that our product progressed to the point that it doesn’t need to look like technology anymore. We build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers – and every single team member, scientist or not, has a mission of delivering exceptional customer service at all times.
DENNIS R. MORTENSEN | ceo and founder
Dennis is the CEO and Founder of x.ai. He’s a pioneer and expert in the analytics, optimization and big data space and has been since its inception – he is also a fully-fledged entrepreneur and successfully delivered a number of company exits. Dennis’s long term vision of killing the inbox triggered the formation of x.ai and the artificial intelligence driven personal assistant. He’s an accredited Associate Analytics Instructor at the University of British Columbia, the Author of Data Driven Insights from Wiley and a frequent speaker on the subject of Analytics and Data.
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ALEX POON | coo and founder
Alex is responsible for all operational matters at x.ai, which includes our Contact Center and Ai Trainers, Engineering and Science groups. He has over fifteen years of experience in data analytics, software development and product management. Alex was a VP of Engineering at Outbrain after it acquired the company he co-founded, Visual Revenue. Earlier in his career, as an engineer at Lockheed Martin, he built software for unmanned aerial vehicle and radio/wireless signal processing. Alex received his MBA from Columbia Business School. He also holds a MS and BS degree in Electrical Engineering. Zerg is his preferred race at Starcraft II.
MATT CASEY | cto and co-founder
Matt is the major driving force behind the design, architecture, and implementation of the x.ai system. He builds products that balance advanced technologies with superior user experience. Prior to x.ai, he was a frontend engineering lead at Outbrain, where he completely overhauled its editorial product’s design and implementation. The application he built is being used by thousands of editors from sites like CNN, Weather.com, and NBC everyday to program their frontpages. He holds a BS degree from the School of Visual Arts.
MARCOS JIMENEZ | chief data scientist and co-founder
Marcos is looking to advance natural language processing at x.ai to enable people to schedule meetings via regular email conversations. He has more than 10 years of hands-on experience in both academic research and private industry projects in data analysis, data acquisition and statistical analysis. Marcos is a main author of several well-cited scientific articles, including a prominent role in the first Higgs-boson search and discovery paper from the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN), and subsequent landmark Higgs-properties publications. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.