Robin AI Appoints Carina Negreanu as Vice President of Artificial Intelligence

July 3, 2024 - Carina Negreanu PhD is Robin AI's new vice president of Artificial Intelligence — joining from Microsoft, where she was principal research manager.

Carina will head up Robin AI’s R&D activities and ensuring alignment between the company’s research activities – in fields such as machine learning and generative AI – and its product roadmap and commercial objectives.

Carina comments, “I’m hugely excited to be joining Robin AI. It’s one of the few AI companies truly walking the walk, building real products to solve real customer problems, and doing so in a sector where the entry bar for AI products is very high, with no margin for error.

“AI has the power to transform how we all work and drive a step-change in productivity, but it’s vital that the products coming to market are accessible, intuitive and deliver genuine value.”

Carina obtained a PhD in Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University, and worked on AI for five and a half years at Microsoft — helping to build Microsoft Excel Copilot, and focusing on supporting non-technical users.

James Clough, CTO and co-founder of Robin AI said, “Carina has made a name for herself as one of the leading thinkers around the application of AI to everyday technology."

"We were impressed by her R&D work on improving staple Microsoft products and saw an obvious opportunity for her to bring her expertise over to the legal sector, where Word and Excel are the default tech tools for millions of legal professionals," Clough said.

“Successful AI companies have to manage the dual focus of developing practical products that improve customers’ working lives, while also paying close attention to the ever-evolving technology landscape. This is the skill set Carina brings to the table.”

At Robin AI 35% of management roles are held by women, around double the tech industry average.