Mobi Strengthens Leadership Team with Addition of Travel Industry Veterans
June 21 2024 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
James Russell and Harriet Brown, formerly of
Google Flights, now head the AI platform’s product strategy and
delivery team
Mobi Systems, a collaborative AI company that solves some of the
world’s most challenging problems, today announced the addition of
travel industry experts James “Jim” Russell as chief product and
engineering officer and Harriet Brown as vice president of product.
Russell and Brown bring decades of experience in travel technology
to Mobi, both serving as integral members of the team who built and
scaled ITA Software and the product behind Google Flights, now the
premiere global flight search engine.
Founded in the research labs at MIT in 2012, Mobi’s
Collaborative AI platform enhances the human ability to make
decisions by scanning and assessing thousands of places, data
points, and scenarios in order to provide compelling, suitable
options that meet business constraints. These can range from
helping travel agents build a highly personalized itinerary, to
energy companies optimizing their truck rolls, to financial
services companies automating their paper-heavy processes. With the
addition of Russell and Brown, Mobi will be able to streamline
travel planning with destination discovery, personalized
recommendations and more.
“With over 15 years in travel tech, I understand the
complexities of travel planning. At Mobi, I'm excited to leverage
the latest AI innovations to help people discover and plan exciting
and delightful travel experiences,” said Russell. “Anna and the
Mobi founders have assembled an incredible team with deep technical
expertise and experience. The platform focuses on keeping humans in
the loop, rather than replacing them, which drew me to this
team.”
Russell and Brown started working together at ITA Software in
the late 2000s, working on product engineering and scaling the
airline software that laid the foundation for Google Flights. Both
Russell and Brown continued their work for Google once it acquired
ITA, building and scaling Google Flights into the leading flight
search engine in the world. Their experiences in smart travel
planning, automation and destination discovery will empower Mobi to
revolutionize the travel industry.
“I love a project that requires intense problem-solving, where
the answer is unclear, and Mobi is founded on solving the hardest
problems,” said Brown. “There is so much opportunity to use
collaborative AI to build solutions for travel industry problems
that are long overdue for improvement. The caliber of Mobi’s team
and hunger to problem-solve with open minds, rather than a
predefined destination, makes me excited every day to work on this
team.”
“Adding Jim and Harriet to Mobi has fundamentally changed how we
operate, in all the best ways,” said Mobi CEO Anna Jaffe. “I spent
seven years convincing Jim to join us and scale the platform like I
knew he could, and Harriet has improved every facet of the platform
she’s worked on. It can be hard as a founder to have others handle
your product and vision, but Jim and Harriet make it easy.”
Mobi Systems is continuing to expand its workforce and its
platform, building a team of experienced partners, industry leaders
and the next generation of AI experts. To learn more about Mobi’s
upcoming projects and career opportunities, please visit
mobi.ai.
About Mobi Mobi’s Collaborative AI platform transforms
how companies do business by enhancing their employee’s
capabilities and enriching their customer’s experiences. Mobi’s
technology builds on seven decades of research and advances in
computing power to improve productivity, efficiency, and
decision-making at scale. Companies work with us to use their data
intelligently and AI thoughtfully, to make their digital offerings
more human, and wring every ounce of value out of the assets they
own.
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