Bogdan Ripa

Background

About Bogdan Ripa

Entrepreneur at heart, Bogdan has cofounded his first startup, InterAKT Online, when he was 21 years old. He started by doing consultancy for web apps using open-source technologies and ended up automating their own work by building products for web developers. Six years later, the company he cofounded was acquired by Adobe, where he worked in engineering and product management helping grow their Romanian campus from 30 to 300+ employees while contributing to Adobe’s digital media product suite, acting as a intrepreneurial coach and having a decisive role in one of the company’s largest M&A deal. This time from the acquirer’s side. After 8 years with Adobe, he decided to return in the startup environment. He decided to join Vector Watch, one of the most promising Romanian Startups at the time that was building a cross-platform smart watch with 30 days battery life, to lead product management. A couple years later Vector Watch was acquired by Fitbit where Bogdan worked as a Sr Director of Product Management, responsible for the company’s Network cluster (gamification, social) as well as new product developments (Fitbit Ace). Bogdan then worked at UiPath, as an SVP of Product Management, expanding UiPath's product suite working on the following products: Orchestrator, Robots, Assistant, Attended Automation Strategy, Contact Center Automations, Apps, Action Center, ClipboardAI and Augment. He then advised the MyBenefits team on product, automations and M&A, marking another exit to Pluxee. Today he is with the Genezio team, helping marketers be visible in an AI-first conversational world.