SEATTLE, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- LivePerson,
Inc. (Nasdaq: LPSN), a leading provider of conversational commerce
solutions, announced today the company's expansion to Seattle with the creation of its North
American Advanced Technology Center. The 40,000 square-foot
facility in the tech hub of the South Lake Union section of
Seattle will be home to
world-class engineering, machine learning, design and product
management teams. These LivePerson teams will enable brands,
including LivePerson's 18,000+ customers, to enter the age of
conversational commerce and will collaborate with the company's
teams elsewhere in the United
States (New York,
Atlanta, Mountain View), and in
Israel (Ra'anana, Tel Aviv), Germany (Mannheim, Berlin), United
Kingdom (London,
Reading), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Tokyo), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Italy (Milan)
and France (Paris).
As part of its Seattle
expansion, LivePerson also announced today the addition of two
seasoned technology executives to the office's leadership team –
Joe Bradley as Chief Data Scientist
and Alan Gilchrest as SVP of Core
Services and Developer Experience. They will report to LivePerson
CTO Alex Spinelli.
Bradley joins LivePerson after leading data science globally for
Nike's brand and digital marketing functions, as well as the
AI-based features in Nike's digital experiences. Prior to Nike,
Bradley led data science, machine learning, and analytics functions
for Amazon Search and delivered novel targeting science and model
building capabilities for the Amazon Ads platform.
Gilchrest joins LivePerson after leading core product and
technology teams at Alexa, Kindle, and within Amazon's retail and
supply chain businesses. Before Amazon, Gilchrest ran fulfillment
network and multi-channel strategy groups for Target.com and helped
Deloitte Consulting build out a retail technology practice.
"Seattle is home to some of the
best tech talent, which is why we chose to expand our U.S.
footprint and build our North American Advanced Technology Center
here," said Alex Spinelli, CTO of
LivePerson. "Joe and Alan are two of the best in their respective
fields and having them at the helm of this office will help ensure
that we onboard the best talent."
LivePerson is focused on major initiatives to enable
conversational commerce at scale with the goal of accelerating the
adoption of conversational commerce for both enterprise and small
businesses around the world. The blend of artificial intelligence,
messaging, and bots, combined with human intelligence (HI), offers
a fluid way for consumers to communicate with brands.
LivePerson delivers a platform that allows consumers to engage from
any device, any messaging app or AI assistant, on their own
schedule, using natural language to buy things, get support, and
get things done.
LivePerson also recently announced it is working with Google and
Facebook, and launched new solutions for conversational commerce
using Amazon® Alexa™ and Google® Assistant.
About LivePerson
LivePerson makes life easier by
transforming how people communicate with brands. Our 18,000
customers, including leading brands like Citibank, HSBC, Orange,
and The Home Depot, use our conversational commerce solutions to
orchestrate humans and AI, at scale, and create a convenient,
deeply personal relationship — a conversational relationship — with
their millions of consumers. For more information about LivePerson
(NASDAQ: LPSN), please visit www.liveperson.com.
Media contact: Allison Franzese, 212-609-4224,
afranzese@liveperson.com
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