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    Arte Merritt

    Arte Merritt

    Marketing, Partnership, and BD leader. Co-founded Dashbot, led to ~1M ARR, 20K customers, & mult acquisition offers; Founded Motally - sold to Nokia. MIT alum.

    Marketing Manager San Francisco Massachusetts Institu...
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    Amazon Web Services
    Amazon Web Services
    Global Partnerships Lead, Conversational AI 2021 - Present (over 5 years)
    Launched Conversational AI partnerships program to enable enterprises to implement high quality, highly effective chatbot, IVR, and voice assistant solutions through AWS partners... more and AWS AI/ML services.

    Defined program, go-to-market strategy, and overall business plan.

    Recruited SI and ISV partners
    Turner
    Turner
    Senior Director Emerging Technologies 2011 - 2013 (over 1 year)
    Corporate Development: Identified, researched, and evaluated start-ups for partnership, investment, and acquisition opportunities with Turner

    Launched, and evangelized,... more a media focused accelerator program - Media Camp. Two startups acquired and one raised ~$14M.

    Organized Mobile Summit bringing more than 90 leaders together from across Turner Brands to develop mobile best practices
    Motally
    Exit
    Motally
    Founder, CEO, Founder 2008 - 2010 (over 2 years)
    Founded Motally (acquired by Nokia) - an analytics platform for mobile applications.

    + Led business development, marketing, and product
    + Set overall vision and... more strategy
    + Built Motally brand from scratch to one of top mobile analytics companies
    + Voice of company at industry events
    + Raised Series A
    + Led to successful exit to Nokia
    Orange Fab
    Orange Fab
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    Dashbot
    Dashbot
    CEO 2016 - 2020 (over 4 years)
    CEO and Co-founder of SaaS analytics platform for conversational AI, chatbots, and voice assistants.

    Led marketing, sales, and partnership efforts to grow to 20,000... more customers, processing 90B messages, and multiple acquisition offers.

    Increased revenues in midst of Covid-19 to put company on pace for 100% ARR growth (~1M ARR). Closed largest sales deal in company history.

    Ran M&A process that resulted in multiple acquisition offers.

    Published 50 articles on conversational AI and data insights, including for VentureBeat.

    Hosted monthly meetups and an annual conference of thought leaders.

    Built a community in the conversational AI space.

    Industry speaker at MWC, SXSW, and VentureBeat

    Raised $6.2M in venture funding.
    Founder
    Motally
    Employee
    Dashbot, Turner, Amazon Web Services
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    Orange Fab
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    About
    Achievements

    Co-founded Dashbot, the leading analytics platform for chatbots and voice skills. Led marketing efforts to organically acquire 20,000 customers who processed 90 billion messages. Increased revenues during global pandemic setting company on pace to 1M ARR and 100% growth. Received multiple acquisition offers.

    Founded Motally, a leading mobile analytics platform, and sold it to Nokia. Built the initial product, got the first customers, and raised the Series A as a sole entrepreneur.

    Inventor on three US Patents

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    Skills
    Business Development Business Strategy Lead Generation Marketing Management Pricing Product Management Strategic Partnerships Product Marketing Analytics Chatbots Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Marketing
    Locations
    San Francisco
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