Founder Profile
Ankur Kothari
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Ankur Kothari brings a deep background in enterprise software strategy, global sales operations, and corporate scaling. His critical formative experience involved structuring global revenue organizations and defining customer success frameworks for massive enterprise software deployments. This background in aggressive, sustainable enterprise scaling allowed him to successfully expand Automation Anywhere's footprint across highly regulated global markets.
Founding Story
Ankur Kothari is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Automation Anywhere, playing a pivotal role in scaling the company from a small Silicon Valley startup into a global Robotic Process Automation (RPA) juggernaut. Kothari co-founded the company in 2003 with Mihir and Neeti Mehta Shukla. Over his two-decade tenure, Kothari has served in multiple critical executive capacities, including Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Customer & Strategy Officer, personally driving the company's expansion to over 25,000 customers across 90 countries. As COO, he is instrumental in shaping the company's daily operational strategy and guiding its complex evolution from basic RPA into advanced, AI-driven agentic process automation.