Joe Petro CTO and EVP of R&D at Nuance - Voicebot Podcast Ep 186

Joe Petro is CTO and EVP of R&D for Nuance and has been with
the company since 2009. Nuance is a voice giant doing $1.5
billion in annual revenue and has a valuation of over $12 billion
today. For over a decade, Nuance essentially defined the voice
industry holding many of its most significant patents and
dominating several market sectors.


Joe oversees an annual R&D budget of over $200 million
including new features such as Ambient AI and a COVID-19 bot.
Prior to Nuance, Joe was SVP of research and development at
Eclipsys, an early leader in electronic medical records. He began
his career as a systems engineer at EDS, has a bachelor's degree
in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in Computer-Aided
Engineering.