Artificial intelligence startup Vndly has expanded its leadership team, and one of those moves includes a new C-suite position.
Chuck Mobley, a three-year veteran of the Mason-based company, was promoted to the newly created role of CTO in September. Vndly also promoted three directors earlier this year:
- John Adkins, vice president of product and engineering
- Stephen Fedor, vice president of professional services
- Tom Ringenbach, vice president of operations.
The moves were spurred, Mobley said, by Vndly’s “tremendous growth” over the last 18 months, both from a client revenue and internal headcount standpoint. The timing, he added, just made sense.
“We're now in the position to add multiple senior leadership roles to continue to support and sustain our growth,” Mobley said.
Launched in 2017, Vndly was originally created as an AI-powered way for companies to better manager vendors and automate processes previously handled by multiple employees throughout a firm. It has since grown into a cloud-based vendor management systems provider that helps companies navigate their entire non-employee lifecycle, from hiring to training to payment and offboarding.
Mobley was Vndly’s first employee, hired by the founders in October 2017. His experience building other technologies, many in e-commerce, have served 50 million U.S. households, Vndly said in a release.
He will continue to lead the startup’s innovation and technology efforts. He previously served as the company’s principal solutions architech.
The new VP roles, meanwhile, include expanded teams. The product and engineering team will expand to include product management, UX design, and quality control. Professional services will now include implementations, customer success and product support. Operations will cover finance, all aspects of IT and security, facilities management, global expansion, and employee satisfaction.
Shashank Saxena, Vndly's CEO and co-founder, said the expansion of the leadership team sets the company up for future gains. The moves became official Aug. 1.
Vndly is among Greater Cincinnati’s best funded startups, according to Courier research. In May, the company added another $8.5 million to its $35 million Series B round of fundraising.
The company, which has 145 employees, is a 2020 Inno on Fire nominee for “startup of the year.”
