Dexory, the UK-based robotics and AI company responds to growing demand from the North American logistics market

Nashville TN and London, UK September 18, 2024 - Dexory, the leading logistics robotics and data intelligence company, today announced the next stage of its expansion with the opening of its North American headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Earlier this year, Dexory announced it has deployed solutions across six states in the USA, following its entry to the market in early 2024. Along with the opening of the office, Dexory also announced that Kristen Shannon is joining the Company's executive team to become Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. Shannon brings a wealth of experience in scaling companies, building processes and strategic plans for businesses such as Monzo, Cisco Meraki and Sonantic. She will work alongside the co-founders, Andrei Danescu, CEO, Adrian Negoita, CTO and Oana Jinga, CC&PO.

"Businesses across the globe are looking at extracting more insights from their warehousing operations and this is where Dexory can rapidly help businesses unlock actionable data insights from the warehouse that help boost efficiencies across the board," said Andrei Danescu, CEO and Co-Founder of Dexory. "After entering the US market, we're excited to open new offices in Nashville and appoint Kristen to accelerate our scale, drive new levels of efficiency and reimagine supply chain operations."

The Nashville base will serve as a hub for Dexory where it can showcase and rapidly deploy its robots to various locations across North America, have access to fantastic technical talent and benefit from exceptional transportation links. The offices will also be home to part of Dexory's support team, a base of operations for its growing sales team, as well as a customer innovation center.

Shannon Brings Deep Operational and Strategic Expertise
Shannon joins Dexory with a distinguished career marked by deep operational and strategic executive experience. She is an experienced COO having held roles with organizations such as General Systems, a geospatial database company focused on large volume sensor data, where she streamlined the company's operations and commercialized deep technology products for market adoption. Most recently Shannon founded Highliner Technology, a consultancy of senior COOs, to serve scaling businesses with global expansion plans. In her role as a consultant she advised companies such as:
• Cisco Meraki, the global market leader in scalable cloud-managed network solutions: Supported global operations team and wider business to enable rapid change through strategic realignment and technical transformation.
• Sonantic, a cutting edge AI voice company: Built teams, systems and processes necessary for scale to prepare Sonantic for a successful funding round which escalated into an acquisition by Spotify.
• Monzo, one of the earliest app-based online banks: Aligned informal work into resilient systems and processes suitable for large scale, agile and innovative organization.
Shannon's extensive experience advising CEOs, founders, and senior executives makes her an invaluable asset to Dexory. Her key responsibilities will include scaling the company globally, with a specific focus on the US market. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Shannon will be based at Dexory's main HQ in the United Kingdom.
"Businesses are looking at new ways of doing things and Dexory is well placed in the market through its product offering, innovations and vision," said Shannon. "I am delighted to have been entrusted with the responsibility to scale the company and in the months ahead we will continue to build business processes to ensure that Dexory becomes the go-to solution for warehouses using autonomous tools."
Rapid growth, industry recognition and new customers
Since the beginning of 2024, Dexory has experienced rapid growth of its team and its deployments in the market. Just last month, Dexory completed further deployments in France, Netherlands, Germany, Middle East and the United Kingdom. These new customers will join companies such as DB Schenker, JAMCO GROUP, Huboo and ID Logistics that are already capturing real-time data daily from their warehouses. In addition to the new customer acquisitions, Dexory has also been recognised as a Cool Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors™ in Logistics and Robotics Technology report.

About Dexory
Dexory captures real-time insights into warehouse operations using fully autonomous robots and Artificial Intelligence. Using autonomous technology to unlock data and drive insights through all levels of business operations, helping companies boost their performance and unlock their full potential. Instant access to real-time data helps optimise the present, de-risk the future and discover the intractable in each location and at every stage of the product journey through the warehouse and onto dispatch.
Introduced to the market in 2023, the DexoryView solution combines robotics, digital twin and AI technologies to understand, analyse and operate end-to-end warehouse operations, offering unprecedented time to value. For businesses that need to thrive in increasingly complex and competitive markets, DexoryView is the solution for warehouse and supply chain operators to gain full visibility of their operations.