Voice AI startup Vernacular.ai said that it will be hiring aggressively in 2021 to expand its workforce by 2x.
Vernacular.ai provides an AI-based voice automation platform — Vernacular Intelligent Virtual Assistant (VIVA), that helps accelerate engagement strategy and utilizes speech recognition and natural language understanding (NLU) technology.
Vernacular.ai on Thursday said it strengthened its workforce by four times in financial year 2020 as it announced the appointment of two new members to its leadership team.
Gangadhar Kodandaram has been appointed the Chief Revenue Officer and Ankit Jain as Vice President for Product Management.
Both Kodandaram and Jain will work directly with Sourabh Gupta, CEO and Co-founder of Vernacular.ai, to grow the business and spearhead global expansion starting with the SouthEast Asian markets.
Prior to joining Vernacular.ai, Gangadhar was with Microsoft India building the healthcare vertical.
Jain brings to the new role over 10 years of experience in product management.