The team
Who we are
Mike Azzara
CEO
Mike spent 20 years in tech journalism before founding Content Marketing Partners, a professional writing agency. In 2023, he became Expressive Machines' first customer — and liked the work so much he joined as CEO.
"I'm our CEO, but I'm also our first customer. I know exactly what our tools do because I use them every day to run my company."
Dean Thompson
CTO
Dean spent 8 years at Yelp, ending as technical lead for their Core LLM team as the current wave of AI got started. He co-founded Expressive Machines with Mike and built ALEX, Kal-El, and the underlying AI platform.
ALEX was so successful for CRA | Admired Leadership that they hired Dean into a dual role as Head of Digital Products & Strategy — while he continues as CTO of Expressive Machines.
Kristina Russo
CFO
[Bio to be provided]
Ryan Lynch
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