Who Founded Automation Anywhere?

Mihir Shukla is co-founder, chief executive officer and board chair of Automation Anywhere, and the only chief executive the company has had. He started it in 2003 with his wife, Neeti Mehta Shukla, alongside Ankur Kothari and Rushabh Parmani, working from the guest bedroom of their house, originally under the name Tethys Solutions. He ran the business on customer revenue for fifteen years before raising a $250 million Series A in July 2018, then backed two full product resets: the browser-based rewrite shipped as Enterprise A2019 in 2019 and the move to AI agents announced at Imagine 2024. He is an information and communications technology governor at the World Economic Forum and speaks there on agentic enterprise operations. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Ankur Kothari is a co-founder of Automation Anywhere and its chief operating officer, and sits on the board. He started the company in 2003 with Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta Shukla and Rushabh Parmani, and has held several executive roles over two decades, including chief revenue officer and chief customer and strategy officer. He now runs day-to-day operations as the company shifts from rule-based robotic process automation to agentic process automation, and he has been the public voice for its growth in India, where demand has moved from global capability centres to Indian boardrooms. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Neeti Mehta Shukla is a co-founder of Automation Anywhere and its chief impact officer. She started the company in 2003 with her husband, Mihir Shukla, alongside Ankur Kothari and Rushabh Parmani, launching it from the guest bedroom of their house. She served as the company's senior vice president for brand and culture, shaping how it explained software bots to buyers who had no category for them, and in November 2021 she was named its first social impact officer. In that role she leads the company's giveback and sustainability work, including free automation training aimed at people outside the usual technology pipeline, and she speaks publicly on AI ethics and diversity in technology. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).

Rushabh Parmani is a co-founder of Automation Anywhere and its chief customer officer. He started the business in 2003, originally named Tethys Solutions, alongside Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta Shukla and Ankur Kothari. Over two decades he has worked on customer success, early product development and the foundations of the platform that the company now sells as its Agentic Process Automation System, and he remains on the leadership team alongside the other three founders. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).