About Us
History
X0PA AI was founded in 2017 by Nina Alag Suri and Co-Founder Dr Jussi Keppo.
Previously, Nina was the Founder and CEO of a global executive search firm, Nastrac Group and it was through this venture that she realized the inefficiencies and subjectivity of traditional hiring processes and thus decided to disrupt her own business and pivot to an AI and ML SaaS-based platform with X0PA AI.
X0PA is headquartered in Singapore and has offices across APAC, India, UK, UAE and partners across the globe.
Our mission and vision
Mission
Maximize objectivity in hiring.
Vision
Ensure workplace happiness through objectivity, and best match between an employee and employer.
Founding team
Nina Alag Suri
Founder & CEO
Nina Alag Suri is the Founder and CEO of X0PA AI Pte Ltd. Nina is a serial entrepreneur and geek at heart! She comes from an Engineering background with a Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication and has been managing and running businesses in the HR space for more than 20 years.
Dr Jussi Keppo
Co-Founder
Jussi Keppo is the Co-Founder of X0PA AI and is also a professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He teaches risk management and analytics courses and directs analytics executive education programs at NUS. He is also the Research Director of the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics at NUS.
Dr Satnam Alag
Founding Advisor
Dr Satnam Alag is the Founding Advisor at X0PA AI and has more than 15 years of experience as Vice President of software engineering of various companies such as Illumina, Upgrademe and NextBio in Santa Clara.
Executive leadership team
Sri Harsha Allamraju
Chief Technology Officer
Having spent more than a decade working at technology companies in Silicon Valley, Sri Harsha has joined X0PA AI to live the adrenaline rush that a startup provides.
X0PA's vision of using Artificial Intelligence and robotic process automation for recruitment and talent management is not only game changing but also transformative. Sri Harsha shares X0PA's vision and he's here to use his decade long experience in working with cross-functional teams, building highly scalable software products and corporate strategies to make this vision a successful reality.
Lee Gang
Head of Data Science
Lee Gang has a Master of Science in Business Analytics from NUS. He's an experienced data practitioner in Healthcare and HR.
Lee is highly energetic and focused on delivering business outcomes using data and technology.
June Teo
Finance and Operations Manager
June has an extensive experience mainly in the start-up world. With 20 years of experience in Finance, Human Resources and Operations working with small businesses, MNC and running business.
Phalguna Rao
Vice President | Alliances and Channel, Worldwide
Phalguna Rao, sales expert across customer and partner led functions spanning the entire Asia Pacific and Japan region. He most recently led Technology Partnerships for APJ at Blue Prism. Prior to this he worked with some of the largest Technology and IT services, organizations, like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Red Hat, IBM and Wipro Ltd in various capacities.
He has over 20 years of experience in the industry, with a background of setting up and expanding a strong partner ecosystem across regions.
Kim Cygler
Strategy Associate and Investor Relations
Kim Cygler graduated from a Bachelor in Finance and Master in Management.
Her passion lies in working with high growth start-ups and loves being involved in scaling up businesses from a financial and strategic perspective. Having lived across multiple countries, Kim values diversity and inclusion and therefore joined X0PA AI to tackle hiring bias in organizations.
Shikha
Global Marketing Director
B2B Marketing Leader who is passionate about GTM and ABM. She believes in One Team Approach and collaborate with Sales and Customer Success in driving the company's revenue. All the marketing activities which she designs are aligned with Growth and Revenue at the core.
Prashanth Sundaram
Head of Customer Success
Prashanth Sundaram (Prash) takes care of Customer Success at X0PA.AI. Prash is passionate about solving customer challenges and showcasing various ways of how they can derive value from the platform.
Aravind
Head of Enterprise Sales, APAC & MEA
Aravind is a seasoned technology business leader with more than a decade of experience spanning HRTech, People Analytics, IOT etc. Aravind comes with recognised accomplishments in building revenue engines for technology ventures from large enterprise clients.
Our investors
Our board
Rajeev Suri
Board Member
CEO of Inmarsat
Former CEO Nokia
Former CEO Nokia Siemens
Non-executive board member Singtel & Stryker Corporation
Advisory Board Member of Aalto University’s School of Business.
Previously a Senior Advisor to Warburg Pincus and Operating Advisor to Apollo Global Management.
Miguel Encarnacion Board Member
Managing Director,
ICCP SBI Venture Partners
Former Managing Partner, Unifier Ventures,
Mentor @Berlin Founders Fund
Former Ambassador AsiaBerlin
Dion Deloof
Board Member
Managing Partner, Alpha Impact 8 Ventures
Investor / Board Observer SnapNurse,
Investor / Board Observer Paymint
Kevin Yu
Board Observer
Founding Partner XCEL NEXT VENTURES, TAIWAN
Founder Taiwan Accelerator (TA)
Co-founder & PartnerCo-founder & Partner A Leading Global IR Firm
Sajit Nair
Board Observer
Managing Director, Founding Partner- SASV Investments
Strategic ISV & Practice Lead-Asia at Microsoft
Former Regional Manager- Azure Hybrid Cloud Sales-APJ
Enterprise Singapore is the government agency championing enterprise development. We work with committed companies to build capabilities, innovate and internationalise.
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