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People.ai Appoints 30-Year Tech Veteran Elisa Steele to Board of Directors

June 20, 2024

San Francisco, CA – June 25, 2024 – People.ai, a leading AI data platform for enterprise go-to-market (GTM) teams, today announces the appointment of Elisa Steele to its board of directors. 

After nearly seven years serving as a strategic advisor to People.ai, Elisa brings deep insights on the company, industry, and growth opportunities. A Silicon Valley business leader for over 30 years, Elisa has broad experience across consumer and enterprise businesses. She has held CEO, CMO, and Sales Leader titles at some of the most storied brands in tech. 

“Elisa brings a visionary approach and a wealth of leadership experience to our board,” said People.ai founder and CEO, Oleg Rogynskyy. “From day one–back in 2018–Elisa has understood the vision and potential of People.ai. She has witnessed our customers gain valuable data-driven insights from SalesAI that have helped improve their revenue motion from creation to close. Her insight with first-mover organizations is unparalleled and incredibly relevant as People.ai continues to provide industry-leading data and AI solutions for the world’s most innovative GTM organizations.”

“I'm excited to join the board of People.ai and continue to help guide its path to success,” said Elisa Steele. “People.ai takes a unique and valuable data-first approach to AI. Their generative AI solution (SalesAI) finds the signals hidden in GTM data and surfaces them in specific, actionable ways. This allows complex sales organizations to create repeatable and scalable selling motions that achieve results."

Elisa has led transformations to scale, growing and driving impact across many organizations, both large and small. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Amplitude (AMPL), Bumble (BMBL), JFrog (FROG), and Procore Technologies (PCOR). She formerly served on the boards of Splunk (SPLK, acquired by Cisco), Cornerstone (CSOD), and others. 

Elisa joins People.ai’s other expert board members, including Peter Levine from Andreessen Horowitz, Nakul Mandan from Lightspeed Ventures, Will Griffith from ICONIQ Growth, Robin Matlock, former CMO of VMWare, as well as Andrey Akselrod and Oleg Rogynskyy, from People.ai.

To learn more about People.ai, please visit www.people.ai.

Media Contact:

Mariah Petrovic, Communications Director at People.ai

PR@people.ai

People.ai is the enterprise AI data platform for revenue teams. Since 2016, People.ai has been transforming how go-to-market teams improve sales effectiveness and win rates via industry-leading comprehensive data foundation and generative AI capabilities. With People.ai’s SalesAI platform, teams can unlock the value of their data to automate many strategic sales activities, including account planning, deal inspection, content generation, account enablement, and even forecasting. Companies like Verizon, IBM Red Hat, Cisco, Zoom, and Palo Alto Networks rely on People.ai’s enterprise-grade, patented AI technology.

 Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, People.ai is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures, and Mubadala Capital. To learn more, please visit www.people.ai.