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Exyn is powered by a team of experts in autonomous systems, robotics, and industrial engineering working together to build robots that keep people safe while keeping an eye on the future. Whether you're a partner looking to innovate, or a dreamer trying to change the world, get in touch.

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Meet the Exyneers

Brandon Torres Declet

CEO

William Sisson II

William Sisson is a skilled software engineer leading the development of key software architectures at Exyn Technologies. His responsibilities cover networking and communications, as well as path planning and mapping.

William Sisson II

Senior Director, Autonomy & Mapping, Motion Planning

Justin Thomas, Ph.D.

Justin completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S.E. in Robotics at UPenn’s GRASP Laboratory under Professor Vijay Kumar. His research was focused on grasping, perching, and visual servoing for micro aerial vehicles.

Justin Thomas, Ph.D.

Director, Autonomy & Mapping, Controls

Brandon Duick

Brandon Duick is a robotics software engineer at Exyn Technologies, supporting the development of the software framework and infrastructure. He is also responsible for integration and robustness testing of the software and core algorithms.

Brandon Duick

VP, Engineering

Alex Burka, Ph.D.

Alex earned his Ph.D. at UPenn’s GRASP Lab, working with Katherine J. Kuchenbecker on hardware and software for haptic perception. At Exyn he develops embedded systems and software to support robot autonomy.

Alex Burka, Ph.D.

Director, Autonomy & Mapping, Embedded

James Sui

James is a Product Manager at Exyn. He is part of the team leading the productization effort of Exyn’s integrated hardware and software platform. He has experience in new product development and product testing.

James Sui

Lead Product Manager

Nick Lynch

Nick is a senior member of the hardware team with over 10 years experience in the robotics industry and a background in mechanical and electrical engineering.

Nick Lynch

Senior Director, Hardware & Systems Integration

Monica DeGuzman

Recently promoted to People & Culture, Monica manages daily office operations while also supporting the members of our growing workforce in various capacities of their Exyn journey.

Monica DeGuzman

Payroll and Benefits Administrator

Jack Gentry

Jack has a background in both electrical and mechanical engineering as a graduate of Temple University’s general engineering program. He was recently promoted from Field Engineer to System Test Engineer on our QA team.

Jack Gentry

Senior System Test Engineer

Ben Williams

Ben is an award-winning entrepreneur and technologist, leading the commercialization of Exyn’s core technologies. He also holds degrees from Penn, Wharton, and Navy Nuclear Power school, and is an active mentor for startups and entrepreneurs. Selected for Wharton Magazine’s 40 Under 40 (2017)

Ben Williams

COO

Nour Hussein

Nour is a robotics software engineer at Exyn. She earned her M.S.E. in Robotics at UPenn’s GRASP Laboratory. Her studies focused on networking, data structures and algorithms, and computer vision.

Nour Hussein

Robotics Software Engineer, Systems

Raffi Jabrayan

Vice President, Business Development & Commercial Sales

Evan Brink

Evan earned his M.S.E. in Robotics from Upenn. As a Mechatronics Engineer at Exyn, he focuses on integrating electromechanical components and sensors into the hardware.

Evan Brink

Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Justin Lehmann

Justin is a graduate of Penn State University with a B.A. in Corporate Communication. Writer, Social Media Geek, Craft Beer Enthusiast, Tech guru, and All-Around Weird Dude. Currently living and working in Philadelphia, dabbling in social media and other various editorial endeavors.

Justin Lehmann

Sr. Manager, Content Marketing

Andy Mroczkowski

Seasoned software engineer, coach, and technology leader who is passionate about building high-performing teams, quality products, and healthy culture.

Andy Mroczkowski

Senior Director, Software Engineering

Kody

Kody joined the Exyn team with his human, Joe Snodgrass. Aside from being the first dog to ever fly an autonomous robot, Kody likes treats and stealing the comfy spot on the couch.

Kody

Chief Dog Officer

Alex Gilbert

As director of quality assurance, Alex is tasked with building a quality program and team that will enable Exyn to achieve repeatable results that our customers can rely on. His hope is to build a quality team that supports all areas of the business, creating a feedback loop that enables us to make informed, strategic decisions about how to improve our products, and identify areas of innovation to explore.

Alex Gilbert

VP, Quality & Production

Colin McDermott

Colin is a graduate from Temple University in Computer Science, at Exyn he works as a field engineer to help train customers on site and calibrate various Exyn robots.

Colin McDermott

Build Engineer

Kevin Rigney

As an Embedded Robotics Engineer, Kevin integrates hardware, writes drivers, and designs abstraction layers to support robot autonomy. He believes that the most well-designed systems are also the easiest to use.

Kevin Rigney

Senior Engineer, Embedded

Sonya Kripke

Sonya is an Agile Project Manager at Exyn. She leverages communication and planning skills in combination with her technical engineering background to ensure project success.

Sonya Kripke

Senior Project Manager

Joe Urbano

Joe is a software engineer on the Product Development team. He is passionate about constructing well designed and maintainable solutions to solve complex problems.

Joe Urbano

Senior Software Engineer, Product

Cody Howell

Cody leverages his background in medical device operations to develop tactical processes and strategy within Exyn's supply chain to support product development and commercial growth

Cody Howell

Sr. Manager, Supply Chain

Ricardo Sotelo

As Exyn’s Finance lead, Ricardo has responsibility for all financial-related activities. Ricardo partners with operating leads to develop the strategic financial vision needed to support the company’s growth.

Ricardo Sotelo

Vice President, Finance

Curtis Linton

Curtis is a graduate of the Mechanical Engineering Program at the University of New Hampshire. As a Field Engineer at Exyn, he focuses on product testing and deploying new systems.

Curtis Linton

Lead Field Engineer

Andrew Iverson

I'm on the product engineering team working towards building better developer and user experiences. I'm passionate about developing high quality software mostly using C++.

Andrew Iverson

Senior Software Engineer, Product

Sean Bowman

Sean completed his Ph.D. at UPenn's GRASP Laboratory under Professor George Pappas, where his research focused on algorithms for semantic SLAM. At Exyn he continues to develop methods and software to allow robots to turn raw sensor data into useful information, primarily focusing on mapping.

Sean Bowman

Senior Engineer, SLAM

Len DiWilliams

Len is the Lead SW Quality Engineer, bringing to Exyn over a decade of engineering experience on world-class defense aerospace platforms. Through the design and implementation of a rigorous software quality program, Len's goal is to ensure that Exyn's customers receive richly performant and thoroughly robust products.

Len DiWilliams

Senior Lead, Software QA

Douglas Minke

Douglas is the Commercial Sales Manager at Exyn and has over 25 years of technical sales and sales management experience. He has a passion for cutting edge/ emerging technologies, with a focus on the security and safety sectors.

Douglas Minke

Sales Manager

Vanessa Varian

VP of Marketing

Ashley Kotter

As the VP of People & Culture, Ashley will serve as a critical partner throughout the employment journey. She will be focused on talent acquisition, employee engagement, and general people operations. She's excited to support in developing and building the capabilities of Exyn employees by increasing their confidence in assessing talent with an eye on creating diverse & inclusive teams, and to partner with the team on employee experience initiatives: driving culture, engagement, and diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB).

Ashley Kotter

VP, People & Culture

Christina Sahli

Christina is a Customer Success Specialist who works as a liaison between clients and internal teams to ensure clients have the necessary tools to meet their goals. She specializes in onboarding, customer engagement and retention, and project management.

Christina Sahli

Senior Manager, Customer Success

Chris Bennett

Warehouse and Logistics Specialist

Ashley Wallace

Ashley is an experienced Marketing Maven who is very passionate about helping organizations grow. She has worked across the marketing mix doing everything from Demand Generation, Advertising, Events, ABM, and Email Marketing. She currently resides in the DMV area.

Ashley Wallace

Senior Manager, Demand Generation

Cristian Ramirez

Cristian is Commercial Sales Executive based in Santiago, Chile. His role is to mainly serve the dynamic mining sector in Latin America by strengthening the liaison between Exyn and local partners, and developing a collaborative relationship with current and potential customers.

Cristian Ramirez

Commercial Sales Executive

Yonatan Saadon

Senior Hardware Engineer

Benjamin Cozzolino

System Test Engineer

Jordyn Finkelstein

Jordyn is a Production Engineer at Exyn Technologies. She supports production, improves process efficiency, standardizes workflow, and moves tasks forward. She has a background in medical device manufacturing and project management. Jordyn has a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State.

Jordyn Finkelstein

Production Engineer

Ryan Young

Sr. Software Engineer - Platform

Brendon Jackson

Sr. Software Engineer - Platform

Monir Ludin

In his role as Channel Partner Lead, Monir is responsible for expanding Exyn’s global footprint through developing and managing its channel partner network in the US and internationally.

Monir Ludin

Channel Partner Lead, Sales

Trevor Oakes

Production Technician

Paul Gromadzki

Director, Commercial Sales, Infrastructure Inspection

Gavin Hope

Production Technician

Adam Graff

Supply Chain Planner

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Board of Directors

Vijay Kumar, Ph.D.

Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.

Vijay Kumar, Ph.D.

Advisor, Founder

Michael Poisel

Director -- PCI Ventures

Dimitri Galitzine

Partner -- Longview Innovation

Hital R. Meswani

Executive Director -- Reliance Industries Ltd.

Brandon Torres Declet

CEO -- Exyn Technologies

Dr. Ted Tewksbury

Dr. Tewksbury is a proven technology executive, CEO, and NACD-certified board director with a track record of building and leading successful teams, visionary new products, and growth businesses. With more than 30 years of leadership experience across public and private technology companies, he most recently served as CEO of Velodyne Lidar, where he restructured the company and led its successful merger with Ouster, Inc. Dr. Tewksbury has had several CEO and board positions at innovative tech companies, including Eta Compute, Entropic Communications, and Integrated Device Technology. Dr. Tewksbury holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT.