People.ai, the AI data platform for sales teams, has announced a leadership transition with the appointment of Jason Ambrose as its new Chief Executive Officer. This move, part of a planned succession, sees former CEO and founder Oleg Rogynskyy step down to pursue innovation in defense technology while remaining on the company's board.
People.ai appoints Jason Ambrose as its new Chief Executive Officer.
The transition is a planned succession; founder Oleg Rogynskyy remains on the board.
Ambrose was previously SVP of Marketing and Strategy at the company.
He brings over two decades of enterprise software and sales tech leadership experience.
The company aims to redefine the CRM landscape with actionable AI-driven answers.
Rogynskyy will be moving on to innovate in the defense technology sector.
The appointment marks a strategic shift for People.ai as it enters its next chapter. Jason Ambrose, who previously served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, was instrumental in architecting the company's forward-looking business strategy. His deep background in scaling enterprise software at firms like McKinsey and Appirio positions him to lead the company's continued evolution and scale. The transition underscores a seamless handover, with the founder expressing confidence in the new leadership.
Under Ambrose's leadership, People.ai is poised to deepen its impact on the sales technology landscape. The company's strategy centers on moving beyond traditional dashboards to providing precise, AI-powered answers grounded in a customer's own sales activity data. With a foundation of billions of processed sales interactions, the platform aims to deliver actionable intelligence directly to sales teams and AI agents, helping them act faster and with greater precision.
This leadership change signals a maturation of the company as it leverages its established AI and data foundation for its next growth phase. With a new CEO who has been deeply embedded in its strategic planning, People.ai is well-positioned to execute its vision of bringing unprecedented precision and automation to enterprise sales, redefining the traditional CRM experience in the process.
People.ai is the premier AI data platform for sales teams. It equips sales leaders with trusted answers drawn from their own activity data, helping them orchestrate deals and drive revenue. Powered by customers’ proprietary sales data and People.ai’s trained models, teams can ask any question and get the right answer in the moment, shaped by real context across the business, the person asking, and the market.
Over the past nine years, People.ai has trained its AI on billions of sales interactions across emails, meetings, and messages. By connecting every signal to the right accounts and opportunities, it shows teams exactly what is happening and what to do next.
Unlike traditional tools, People.ai’s AI platform turns activity into actions that help teams act faster and win more. Customers including Red Hat, Dataiku, Five9, and Notion use it to drive trillions in pipeline and revenue.