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CEO, Khurram Sheikh, is a global citizen having grown up and lived on three continents, an innovator who helped pioneer mobile technologies, networks, software and applications.

Khurram’s passion for transformational change will now be focused on realizing the vision of the workplace engagement platform centered around the employee experience.  An engineer by training with 12 issued US patents, Khurram has been leading transformational projects since his days as a summer intern at Sprint from Stanford in 1996 to his current role as the CEO of KINS Technology Group - in between he has worked across the whole technology stack from Silicon to SaaS.

Khurram is an avid traveler, sports enthusiast and family man…you will not be surprised to find him on the weekends at a kid’s gaming party or at an international sports stadium.

Technologist, business leader, and cricket fan, Khurram is super-excited to help shape the future of work.

With over 22 years of experience in the finance field, Joy is a seasoned expert passionate about scaling and driving efficiency. Her extensive background spans audit, tax, business operations, financial services, and financial planning/analysis, with a rich history of working across diverse industries and markets. Joy has held significant roles in major cities across the U.S. and Europe.

Joy earned her Juris Doctor from Cleveland State University and a Master of Accountancy from Case Western Reserve University. She also holds a double bachelor's degree in Accounting and Black World Studies from Miami University of Ohio. Her impressive career includes notable positions at EY, BlackRock, Google, and most recently, as the CFO of ServiceRocket, a tech company.

Outside of her professional life, Joy cherishes spending weekends with her family at the local farmers market or rose garden. Despite her busy schedule as a professional, wife, and mother, she is committed to exploring a new country or city every year.

Terry Blanchard is a seasoned technology leader with over thirty years of experience in software development, user interface design, and engineering management at prominent technology companies.

 As the Senior Vice President of Engineering at CXAI, Terry leverages his extensive background in building and scaling high-performing engineering teams to drive innovation in AI-powered customer experience solutions.

Terry's distinguished career includes leadership roles at industry-leading organizations, including Meta's WhatsApp Business, where he built and led a team of 80+ engineers across multiple platforms to build out the WhatsApp Business engineering organization and business. He spent six years at Apple as Senior Engineering Manager for Apple's productivity applications, such as Apple Mail and Notes, across iOS and macOS platforms. His expertise extends to specialized user experience roles at NVIDIA, where he founded the Human Interface team, and at Kaleidescape, where he established the User Experience Engineering division.

Throughout his career, Terry has demonstrated exceptional abilities in technical leadership, team management, and cross-functional collaboration. His experience spans consumer and enterprise applications, with particular expertise in mobile platforms, user interface design, and scaling engineering operations. He holds four patents related to message and document management systems, highlighting his innovative approach to software development.

Terry combines technical acumen with strategic vision to deliver transformative digital experiences that enhance productivity and engagement.

As EVP of Business Operations, Chris Wiegand, oversees the timely and efficient delivery of repeatable and scalable processes that fuel CXApp’s advancement in the work tech industry. He advocates for customer growth potential while identifying opportunities for increased adoption, and expansion of CXApp assets across diverse customer portfolios. 

Chris has a 25-year career in business operations having co-founded and led the growth of indoor the wayfinding platform Jibestream from its inception to acquisition, wherein the mapping technology can power personalized and contextually relevant employee experiences.  

Naresh Soni has had 15+ years of growing share prices and generating more than $300M in revenue from emerging mobile platforms for global mobile organizations including Nokia, 5Barz, STMicro, AT&T, Bell Labs and IBM.

He has pioneered 6 mobile product portfolios & 3 product lines in mobile and computing IS & rich media platforms. Moreover, Naresh provides 15+ years of driving new product development engineering teams across Europe & Asia, to deliver cutting edge products and innovations.

Asim Shahryar Husain is a technology executive with more than 29 years of experience in software development, product management, marketing, business development, and executive management. He has worked with both established companies and start-ups in USA and Pakistan including Viewlogic, Siemens, Oracle, IBM, Transworld, wi-tribe, etc. He was Managing Director of Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) during 2014-17 and annual IT exports of Pakistan as reported by State Bank grew by 78% during that period. He was also Project Director for World Bank’s $137 million financial inclusion project during 2018-20 whose goal was to increase financial inclusion to at least 50% of total population of Pakistan. His last stint was as CEO of Ignite National Technology Fund from 2021-24 where he established 8 incubation centers, launched 15 courses under digiskills program for training freelancers and conducted national cybersecurity hackathons for 3 successive years. 

Asim holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University (1992) and an MBA from Duke University (1998). He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI USA (2018). He loves his two daughters Minahil and Mahnoor who he calls M&Ms :) He is an avid follower of cricket and soccer and enjoys both local and international travel. 

Ms. Di-Ann Eisnor has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2020. Since November 2019, Ms. Eisnor has served as Co-Founder and CEO of Core, a venture-backed construction labor marketplace. Before that, from February 2019 until October 2019, she was an executive of The We Company, a part of the We Work Companies, where she was responsible for development of their cities platform.

Prior to that, Ms. Eisnor served as Director of Urban Systems at Google, from June 2018 until February 2019. Previously, Ms. Eisnor was with Waze, Inc., a crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic application owned by Alphabet, Inc., for 10 years, most recently serving as the VP Platform and Director of Growth. Prior to joining Waze, Ms. Eisnor was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Platial Inc., a collaborative, user-generated cartographic website.

Ms. Eisnor currently serves on the board of Saia Inc. (Nasdaq: SAIA) and Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. She is a venture partner at Obvious Ventures and is co-founder with Lupe Fiasco of Neighborhood Start Fund, a neighborhood-based micro-fund in underserved urban neighborhoods. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Studio Art and Business Administration from New York University. She is a 2014 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Ms. Eisnor is well qualified to serve on our board because of her extensive experience advising boards of directors of public and private companies and her extensive professional experience.

Mr. Camillo Martino has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2020. Mr. Martino was a senior global semiconductor company executive and now serves as a board member and executive advisor to many global technology companies. Prior to his current board roles, Mr. Martino was a chief executive officer and C-suite executive of a number of high technology companies worldwide. He is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of Magnachip Semiconductor (NYSE: MX) and has served on this Board since August 2016.

Since 2018, he has also served on the Board of Directors at Sensera (ASX: SE1). Mr. Martino also serves on the Board of Directors at multiple privately-held companies, including VVDN Technologies (fastest growing ODM based in India with a focus on Wireless, Networking & IoT) and Sakuu Corporation (multi-material, multi-process Additive Manufacturing platform). Mr. Martino’s prior board service includes serving on the boards of Cypress Semiconductor from June 2017 through the sale of the company to Infineon in April 2020 and Moschip Technologies (BOM: 532407) from April 2017 to May 2019.

As an operating executive, Mr. Martino served as Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Image, Inc. (where he also served as a director) from 2010 until the completion of its sale to Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: LSCC) in March 2015, Chief Operating Officer of SAI Technology Inc. from January 2008 to December 2009 (where he also served as director from 2006 to 2010), and Chief Executive Officer of Cornice Inc. from 2005 to 2007 (where he also served as a director).

From August 2001 to July 2005, Mr. Martino served as the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Zoran Corporation, a global SoC semiconductor company. Prior to that, Mr. Martino held multiple positions with National Semiconductor Corporation for a total of nearly 14 years. Mr. Martino holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma (in Digital Communications) from Monash University in Australia. Mr. Martino is well qualified to serve on our board because of his extensive experience advising boards of directors of public and private companies and his extensive professional experience.

Mr. George Mathai has enjoyed decades working, consulting, and investing in early stage and small businesses at the crossroads of distinct technologies, multiple industries and novel markets. A technically trained business professional, his early experience in bridge design and infrastructure repair was at Edwards & Kelcey in New York, now Jacobs Engineering.

In January 1993, Mr. Mathai transitioned to managing renovations projects and gaining strong communications and project execution skills, while driving revenue and profitability, at a small New York construction company. As a founder, he later parlayed his prior management and technical expertise in leading the biosensor development program at GenoRx in June 2000, an early stage, venture-backed concern in Hayward, California. His team accomplished a manufacturable process for detecting DNA electronically on a silicon biochip with the eventual sale of the technology to Bridger Technologies in April 2011.

Thereafter, Mr. Mathai helped raise financing for an innovative antibiotic skin care start-up and worked to fundraise for an early-stage immune-mediated cancer therapeutic while at a boutique brokerage firm Objective Equity LLC. Overlapping these endeavors, were local business interests in retail, as well as due diligence consulting for mergers and acquisitions. The above broad and varied interests are also reflected in his educational history which includes bachelors and masters in civil engineering from University of California, Berkeley (May 1989) and City College of New York (June 1992), respectively, as well as, most recently upskilling at CalTech’s cybersecurity program (December 2020). Mr. Mathai’s extensive experience in several diverse industries, markets and customer types will bring a unique and inestimable resource to the board.

Ms. Shanti Priya has been the CFO of Maxfield Enterprises, Inc., a luxury retail company based in Los Angeles and has been leading the organization’s finance and operations since February 2018. Prior to that, Ms. Priya worked for over 12 years in corporate finance at Gap Inc. with her last role at the company as the Global Director of FP&A and Control overseeing the North American, European, and Asian markets.

Before transitioning into a career in finance, Ms. Priya worked as a Producer managing content creation at a tech start-up, Knowledge Kids Network, an online educational media site. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Honors English Literature with a minor in Biology from Scripps College. In addition, she holds a Master of Arts in Print Journalism and a Master of Business Administration both from the University of Southern California.

Ms. Priya also serves on the board and as treasurer of Secular Student Alliance, a non-profit organization that educates high school and college students regarding secularism and scientific reasoning. She has previously served on the board of Sequoyah School, a non-profit private school serving the ages from K-8. Ms. Priya is well qualified to serve on our board of directors because of her substantial financial and operations experience.