DevRev Appoints AI Expert Alex Dimakis to its Board of Directors

DevRev, an AI-native enterprise platform that redefines customer and employee experiences with consumer-grade surfaces and 1-click data integrations, today announced the expansion of its Board of Directors with the appointment of Professor Alex Dimakis, a researcher and thought leader in AI. He brings expertise in developing techniques to improve reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) and agents to support DevRev in bringing explainable and accessible AI-powered workflows to the enterprise. DevRev was co-founded by Dheeraj Pandey, the former CEO and co-founder of Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) and a board member at Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE).

Dr. Dimakis, a globally recognized AI researcher, is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-founder of Bespoke Labs, a startup focused on data curation and training of specialized AI Agents. He is an IEEE Fellow and has spearheaded the creation of influential open-source models and datasets such as Datacomp, DCLM, OpenThinker, and OpenThoughts, and is known for translating cutting-edge academic breakthroughs into real-world AI applications. His work directly supports DevRev’s mission to move beyond black-box AI toward solutions that are transparent, trustworthy, and aligned with what teams actually need.

“I’ve grasped so much of AI from Alex in the past several years of our association, both when he was at UT Austin and now at UC Berkeley,” said Dheeraj Pandey, CEO of DevRev. “Post-training will change everything, if it hasn’t already. The best agents for companies will have skills that are specific to their business and sensitive to continuous change. With Alex in AI, Georg in design, and Amit in finance, we now have a board with a trifecta of teachers our company can learn immensely from.”

Dimakis’ research spans AI reasoning, data curation, and post-training methods that make AI agents more reliable and responsive to user needs. His work has advanced the understanding of how reinforcement learning can refine AI behaviors after pre-training, resulting in models that are not only more capable but also more aligned with human goals.

“I’m excited to join DevRev at a moment when the industry is taking a hard look at ROI and seeking solutions that solve real problems and serve a specific function,” said Dimakis. “DevRev is building AI with purpose, designed to integrate seamlessly into workflows, drive measurable outcomes, and earn its place as a trusted teammate.”

Dimakis joins a board committed to pushing DevRev to help enterprise teams unlock their full potential through human-AI collaboration, adding depth in AI research to a leadership team with proven expertise in design and business scaling.

To learn more about DevRev, visit devrev.ai.

About DevRev
DevRev is redefining enterprise software with AI-native solutions that unify siloed data and transform how teams collaborate. Its patented technology takes structured and unstructured data from existing tools like Salesforce, Jira, and Zendesk, organizing it into a knowledge graph that powers conversational enterprise AI. With DevRev, businesses get precise answers, real-time analytics, and automated workflows to unlock unrealized value. Founded in 2020 and backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield, DevRev is led by co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, former co-founder and CEO of Nutanix [NASDAQ: NTNX] and an Adobe [NASDAQ: ADBE] board member, alongside co-founder Manoj Agarwal, former SVP of Engineering at Nutanix. Headquartered in Palo Alto, DevRev operates globally across eight offices.

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