Krista, a leader in conversational AI and digital process automation, announced that Michael Haske will join the company as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective. Haske, previously the President and Chief Operating Officer at Paylocity and prior CEO of Aircall, will succeed Krista Co-Founder & CEO John Michelsen. Michelsen founded Krista in 2020 and has led the global company from a pioneer to leading player in AI integration platform as a service. Michelsen will remain on the board and continue to serve as Chief Product Officer to the company.
Haske joins Krista at a pivotal time as the company recently secured several prestigious contracts and continues to expand globally. He brings three decades of experience in scaling high-growth, cloud-based software businesses and will continue to drive Krista’s innovation in the artificial intelligence space and digital process automation, furthering its mission to create technology that understands people.
Haske most recently served as CEO of cloud communications company Aircall and prior to that as President and Chief Operating Officer of cloud-based Payroll & Human Resources software company Paylocity, where he led the company’s growth from 100 employees and $15 million in revenue to 5,000 employees and $1 billion in revenue.
Krista Software develops the AI integration platform as a service (AI iPaaS), Krista. Krista enables companies to elegantly orchestrate processes across people, apps, and AI. Krista provides a natural language processing based iPaaS to help companies integrate any AI into processes to improve business outcomes. Krista was founded in 2020, has offices in Dallas and Pune, the company currently has over 80 employees
SOURCE: Businesswire