Enterprise AI Platform Writer Announces New C-Suite Executives to Support Accelerating Growth Trajectory
June 20 2024 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
CRO Andy Shorkey, CMO Diego Lomanto, and CFO
Roger Kopfmann join to fuel Writer’s next phase of expansion,
bringing unmatched expertise in scaling enterprise SaaS
go-to-market and operations
Writer, the full-stack generative AI platform delivering
transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises, today
announced the appointment of three additional C-suite officers to
help drive the company’s next phase of growth and market
leadership. These strategic hires come at a time of rapid expansion
for Writer, which has grown its customer base to over 250
enterprise organizations, including Vanguard, Intuit, L’Oreal, and
Accenture, and tripled revenue year over year.
The new executives bring deep experience scaling enterprise SaaS
companies through hypergrowth and will play a critical role in
shaping the company’s strategy and operations:
- Roger Kopfmann joins as Writer’s first Chief Financial
Officer, bringing a new level of operational rigor to Writer as it
scales to support its global customer base. Roger previously
supported Coupa’s growth and evolution during his near 13-year
tenure at the company, most recently as its Executive Vice
President of Operations. He brings a powerful combination of deep
technical knowledge and financial acumen, and will play a pivotal
role in guiding Writer’s financial and business strategy.
- Andy Shorkey joins as Writer’s first Chief Revenue
Officer, leading its global sales organization. He brings an
exceptional track record scaling high-performing sales teams in
fast-growth environments and driving revenue growth in competitive
markets. Previously, Andy held Senior Vice President roles at
OneTrust and Mulesoft, where he played a pivotal role expanding
revenue from $50M to over $1.5B through IPO to Salesforce
acquisition and evangelized a new category to enable IT to unlock
organizational value.
- Diego Lomanto joins Writer as its first Chief Marketing
Officer and will spearhead its global go-to-market and brand
strategy. Diego built the AI automation category as Vice President
of Product Marketing at UIPath, where he defined the narrative for
a new technology platform that became ubiquitous across the
enterprise. He brings over two decades of experience driving growth
and innovation in global enterprise software, most recently as CMO
at Ada.
"After years of state-of-the-art product innovation, we’re proud
to offer an end-to-end enterprise AI solution that’s being embraced
by the world’s top companies,” said Writer CEO & Co-founder May
Habib. “Andy, Diego, and Roger have scaled some of the most
important enterprise SaaS companies of the past decade. More
importantly, they each have a genuine passion for AI and Writer’s
vision to transform work. With the incredible momentum we’re seeing
in our business, it was a natural next step to bring in some of the
brightest players to scale our go-to-market and build world-class
business operations.”
Since its launch in 2020, Writer has achieved an unmatched track
record of delivering tangible ROI for enterprise organizations
through its full-stack AI platform. Writer has saved its customers
millions of hours in productivity, delivers an average 7x return on
investment, and has seen net revenue retention grow 179% year over
year.
The new appointments come on the heels of the recent release of
Writer AI Studio, a groundbreaking suite of development tools for
both technical and non-technical users to rapidly build and deploy
custom generative AI applications.
Palmyra – Writer’s family of LLMs - is consistently benchmarked
by Stanford’s Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) as a
top model for accuracy and performance, and Writer's graph-based
RAG achieves an impressive 86.31% accuracy on the RobustQA
benchmark, significantly outperforming competitors. These scores
highlight Writer’s power and ability to tackle a wide range of
enterprise use cases.
At a time when trust in AI companies has declined to 35%, major
brands are choosing Writer’s platform for its accuracy, security,
and efficiency. Writer is committed to zero data retention, never
trains on customer data, and never distills or quantizes its
models.
About Writer
Writer is the full-stack generative AI platform delivering
transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises. Its
all-in-one solution makes it easy to deploy customized AI apps and
workflows that accelerate growth, increase productivity, and ensure
compliance. Designed to provide enterprise-grade accuracy,
security, and efficiency, Writer’s suite of development tools is
supported by Palmyra – Writer’s state-of-the-art family of LLMs –
alongside its industry-leading graph-based RAG and customizable AI
guardrails. Named one of the top 50 companies in AI by Forbes,
Writer empowers hundreds of customers like Accenture, Intuit,
L’Oreal, and Vanguard to transform the way they work. Founded in
2020 with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London,
Writer is backed by strategic investors, including ICONIQ Growth,
Insight Partners, WndrCo, Balderton Capital, and Aspect Ventures.
Learn more at writer.com.
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