Zingtree Names New CTO, Venkat Iyer

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Venkat Iyer to the Zingtree team as Chief Technology Officer. Read the full press release here.

Venkat joins Zingtree from Talkdesk, where he held multiple product and engineering executive roles, including most recently, Vice President of Products. Prior to Talkdesk, he held leadership roles at SAP and Oracle, and brings additional entrepreneurial and startup experience from Traform and Acme Ticketing. Venkat’s experience solving complex workflows across fragmented systems spans industry-specific enterprise solutions as well as customer experience and workflow automation. 

In this role, Venkat will oversee and expand the company’s engineering and product development functions to accelerate our product roadmap. He will be focused on building new agentic capabilities to safely scale AI agents for complex products and highly regulated industries as well as advance human-agent collaboration. 

“Enterprises are adopting AI, but realizing its full value requires more than adding intelligence to individual applications. It requires connecting technology, business context and understanding, and trusted processes so that people and AI can work together effectively,” said Venkat Iyer, CTO of Zingtree. “Zingtree has a strong foundation in helping organizations operationalize complex processes, and I’m excited to build on that with our customers, partners, and team to capitalize on this massive AI opportunity in complex CX.”