Former DataRobot, IBM Executive Joins Anyscale to Accelerate Business Development

Anyscale, the company enabling instant scaling of AI applications, today announced the appointment of Rich Hoyland as head of sales. In this role, Hoyland will lead sales and business development efforts for the Anyscale platform, a fully managed platform for the open source distributed computing project Ray. Hoyland will report to Executive Chairman and President Ion Stoica.

Hoyland brings over 20 years of sales leadership experience to Anyscale, previously serving as chief revenue officer at DataRobot, where he scaled annual recurring revenue from 0 to over $100 million. Hoyland’s deep experience building high-performing sales teams will enable Anyscale to accelerate revenue growth and develop strategies to address the company’s large market opportunity.

“I’m excited by Anyscale’s technology as well as the company’s vision to democratize AI,” said Hoyland. “Ray and Anyscale are empowering every developer and every team to succeed with AI without needing to worry about building and managing infrastructure. I’m looking forward to working with Robert, Ion, and the rest of the Anyscale team to execute on this vision while driving value for customers.”

“I’m thrilled to welcome Rich to Anyscale as head of sales. His track record of leading high-performing sales teams will be tremendously valuable as we accelerate the growth of our cloud platform to support growing customer demand,” said Robert Nishihara, chief executive officer, Anyscale. “The coming year will be critical for Anyscale as we mobilize to capture the immense opportunity in front of us. With his extensive experience in the AI and enterprise spaces, Rich is uniquely qualified to take us to that next stage of growth.”

About Anyscale:

Anyscale, the company founded by the creators of Ray, is accelerating the development and productionization of AI applications, at any scale. Ray, the fastest growing open source project in distributed AI, lets developers instantly scale applications from a laptop to the cloud, without the cost or expertise of building complex infrastructure. By empowering developers of all skill levels to effortlessly develop and scale the end-to-end AI lifecycle on a single compute substrate and deploy the app into production, Anyscale is enabling organizations to bring AI products to market faster and at lower costs. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Addition, Anyscale is based in San Francisco, CA. www.anyscale.com

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