involve.ai Hires Former SAP, LinkedIn Exec Mary Poppen to Start The Customer Intelligence Movement

Previously with Glint, LinkedIn’s people success platform, Poppen becomes Chief Strategy & Customer Officer at involve.ai

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–involve.ai, the industry’s first true Customer Intelligence platform that leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform customer success teams, announced today that Mary Poppen has joined the company as Chief Strategy & Customer Officer after serving as an involve.ai customer board member for one year.

“Mary is an outstanding addition to our involve.ai team! She brings a dynamic blend of customer success, customer experience, and executive leadership,” said Gaurav Bhattacharya, CEO of involve.ai. “Moving forward, Mary will spearhead our strategy to lead the Customer Intelligence Movement while helping to scale and support growth.”

Poppen brings over 20 years of experience in Customer Success, business consulting, and executive leadership to involve.ai. At Glint, Poppen was responsible for driving and scaling the company’s ability to delight its customers. Before joining Glint, she was Global Head of Innovation Enablement at SAP SuccessFactors and was Chief Customer Officer for SAP’s Global Cloud business. Mary is a well-recognized customer, and employee experience thought leader, author, and speaker.

“AI-powered Customer Intelligence has already changed the Customer Success and Go-to-market landscape. Most companies just don’t know it yet,” said Poppen. “involve.ai is not only the first to deliver personalized customer experiences at scale, but they also do it using AI to help clients quickly reduce customer churn and grow revenue in just weeks.”

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About involve.ai

involve.ai was founded by Gaurav Bhattacharya and Saumya Bhatnagar, who have built successful startups by staying customer-centric and having a data-driven, action-oriented approach to customer success. involve.ai is an AI early warning dashboard to supercharge customer teams with actionable insights and automation, so they can reduce churn, increase upsells and improve customer experience. involve.ai is built with love all around the world. To learn more about involve.ai, visit https://www.involve.ai.

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As a detail-oriented researcher, Sherril is expert at discovering, gathering and compiling industry and market data to create clear, actionable market and competitive intelligence. With deep experience in market analysis and segmentation she is a consummate collaborator with strong communication skills adept at supporting and forming relationships with cross-functional teams in all levels of organizations.

She brings more than 20 years of experience in technology research and marketing; prior to her current role, she was a Research Analyst at Omdia, authoring market and ecosystem reports on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and User Interface technologies. Sherril was previously Manager of Market Research at Intrado Life and Safety, providing competitive analysis and intelligence, business development support, and analyst relations.

Sherril holds a Master of Business Administration in Marketing from University of Colorado, Boulder and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rutgers University.

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