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Elias Torres is the founder and CEO of Agency—an AI agent for customer success teams. Agency is backed by Sequoia and HubSpot Ventures. Before Agency, Torres co-founded Drift, a groundbreaking digital experience platform that revolutionized B2B transactions and created the Conversational Marketing category. Drift's acquisition by Vista Equity Partners in 2021, valued at over $1 billion, made it one of the less than 1% of unicorns led by Latino founders. Torres has held leadership roles at HubSpot, a public inbound marketing company, and Performable, a software platform for businesses that was acquired by HubSpot. When he was the VP of Engineering at Lookery, Torres built a cloud-based ad targeting platform. He began his career with IBM as a software engineer for 10 years working with an amazing team of technical visionaries.
Mike Kaput is the Chief Content Officer at Marketing AI Institute. Kaput uses content marketing, marketing strategy, and marketing technology to grow and scale traffic, leads, and revenue for Marketing AI Institute. An avid writer, Kaput has published hundreds of articles on how to use AI in marketing to increase revenue and reduce costs. Kaput is the co-author of "Marketing Artificial Intelligence: AI, Marketing and the Future of Business" (Matt Holt Books, 2022).
