Seattle-based task automation startup Xembly has named Ziad Ismail as chief operating officer.
Ismail, who was announced as Xembly's COO on Tuesday, brings experience from Convoy and Marchex to the role. He was most recently the COO at the health care data company H1, where he spent more than a year.
"Adding someone with Ziad’s expertise and customer-first mindset was crucial," Pete Christothoulou, founder and CEO of Xembly, said in a release. "He’s successfully led teams to reinvent some of the largest and most competitive global industries using AI and data-based insight."
Ismail was chief product officer at the Seattle-based freight network startup Convoy from 2016 to 2021, according to his LinkedIn page. Before that, he spent five years at the Seattle-based sales and marketing technology company Marchex, where his most recent role was also chief product officer. He spent almost eight years at Microsoft in various product manager roles earlier in his career.
Xembly is meant to automate tasks often completed by a chief of staff or executive assistant, such as scheduling meetings, taking meeting notes or blocking off time on a calendar to complete tasks. Xembly's clients include Twilio, Convoy and Qualtrics. The company raised a $15 million Series A round in October.
Christothoulou founded the company in 2020, according to his LinkedIn page. He also co-founded Marchex and previously served as the company's CEO. His LinkedIn page notes he was at Marchex from 2003 to 2016, while Ismail was there from 2011 to 2016.
"The future will go far beyond just adding AI to existing tools — there is an opportunity to rethink how work happens,” Ismail said in a news release. “I’ve watched the Xembly team execute its ambitious vision since day one and couldn’t be more excited to join now.”
