Attentive, the AI-powered SMS and email marketing platform, announced that Antonio Silveira has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer.

“Antonio joins us at a critical time in Attentive’s journey as the company accelerates the pace of AI innovations to help brands deliver bespoke customer experiences that drive revenue and loyalty”

Silveira will lead Attentive’s engineering team to execute the company’s technical vision and lead the development of technology across all of Attentive’s products for a seamless customer experience. Engineering works closely alongside Attentive’s product and design teams, to build and implement the best-in-class marketing platform including core SMS, email, and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

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“Antonio joins us at a critical time in Attentive’s journey as the company accelerates the pace of AI innovations to help brands deliver bespoke customer experiences that drive revenue and loyalty,” said Amit Jhawar, CEO at Attentive. “Given Antonio’s wealth of experience in driving innovation with a track record of building products used by millions of users, I’m confident he will inspire our team to continue to develop solutions that deliver the highest results for our customers. His expertise and leadership will be instrumental in scaling our efforts to deliver value to our customers, shareholders, and employees.”

Silveira brings over 20 years of experience in building large-scale product and SaaS offerings across various business models, including marketing, payments, and subscriptions. Most recently, he led engineering at Nextdoor as Chief Technology Officer through a period of significant expansion, while creating a culture of rapid product development. Prior to Nextdoor, he was the VP of Engineering at GoDaddy, and a senior engineering leader at Yahoo. In his career, he was part of the executive team for two IPOs, Nextdoor and GoDaddy.

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