Natural language and conversational AI startup Hyro today announces a series of senior appointments that have joined the company: Daniel Ben Tov as VP of Research and Development, Paz Yanover as VP of Product Management and Cathy Jones as VP of Sales. Hyro helps enterprises streamline their communications through various channels such as customer service call centers, chat interfaces on websites, SMS and more, through natural language processing automation (NLP Automation) capabilities and Conversational AI. The announcement of these senior appointments comes after significant growth of the company since its inception in 2018 and towards the company’s Series B capital raise.

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