As CRO, Neil leads a global revenue team that helps enterprises accelerate business value from their AI and automation initiatives. Neil also leads ABBYY’s partner ecosystem, which grew 20% in 2024 and spans Deloitte, Microsoft, IBM, Blue Prism, and Roboyo. He launched the ABBYYOne global partner program in 2022 and established the ABBYY Partner Awards.
His recurring thought leadership position is that automation succeeds or fails due to culture rather than technology, and that the real prize is redeploying people into more creative work rather than reducing headcount.
Neil joined ABBYY in 2016 as Sales Director for the UK and Ireland, moved into global business development in 2018, took on the global channel chief and EMEA sales leadership roles in 2021, and was appointed to the executive leadership team in 2023. Before ABBYY, Neil built and ran AI Foundry in EMEA, a start-up inside Kodak Alaris focused on the AI and robotic process automation (RPA) markets, and served as EMEA Solutions Director at Kodak Alaris. Earlier, at Bell & Howell, he covered the UK, Ireland, Benelux, and Eastern Europe single-handedly.
