Andy Mauro

Andy is the co-founder and CEO of Automat a seed stage startup that is seeking to redefine the way brands, influencers and companies of all types communicate with their customers and their employees using a mix of mobile messaging, artificial intelligence and bot technology. Andy and his cofounders collectively have over 35 years experience in the fields of speech recognition, natural language understanding, virtual assistants and AI and have received investments from Relay and Real Ventures, the Slackbot fund and from Youandmrjones the first brand tech company headed by David Jones the ex-CEO of Havas. Their advisory board consists of technology trend spotter Tim O’Reilly and conversational commerce pioneer Chris Messina.