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Vancouver, BC, July 25, 2023--(T-Net)--Sanctuary AI announced today that it has added two new members to its senior management team at the VP level.

The company says it faces new challenges as their general purpose robots (GPRs) attempt to solve real world problems for their customers.

"It is astronomically awesome to be able to deploy and scale this type of technology into the real world. But that awesomeness comes with very different kinds of problems to overcome" said the company in a blog post.

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To take on those challenges, Co-Founder and CEO Geordie Rose announced that both Matt Meeks and Vincent Clerc have joined the company's management team.

Matt joins Sanctuary AI as VP of Customer Experience, and will be responsible for designing and running the company's Customer Experience processes.

Vince joins the company as VP of Hardware and Manufacturing, and takes on responsibility for those parts of the organization as the company scales.

Matt Meeks, VP of Customer Experience

Matt Meeks joined Sanctuary as VP of Customer Experience in Spring 2023, bringing more than two decades of experience in team building and organizational leadership. His decorated career spans military operations, robotics, automation, and customer enablement. In his role, Matt manages customer experience initiatives and leads the deployments of Sanctuary's AI technology to customer sites.

Previously, Matt was the Senior Systems Lifecycle Manager for Robotic Fulfillment and Managed Customer Success at Amazon Robotics. There, he enhanced Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), system performance, and productivity, contributing to a 4X increase in the Global Robotics customer base over two years.

Matt excels in dynamic environments and is devoted to the development of people and teams. He holds an MS in Systems Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and a BS from Georgia State University. Outside of work, Matt enjoys time with family and friends, snowboarding, golf, and classic sports cars.

Vincent Clerc, VP of Hardware and Manufacturing

Vincent Clerc joined the Sanctuary team as VP of Hardware and Manufacturing in the summer of 2023. Vincent uses his expertise to lead the company's growing manufacturing division, with responsibilities that include overseeing hardware development associated with the manufacturing and scaling of the company's general-purpose robots. For over 25 years, Vincent has played a pivotal role in the growth of many successful technology companies of varying sizes, including Dyson, Softbank Group, and Terramera. Vincent has held senior roles in engineering, R&D, and mechatronics and is widely known for being one of the makers of Pepper, a semi-humanoid robot primarily used for customer service experiences, while the Nao and Romeo humanoid robots have also been released under his supervision.

Vincent holds a dual Ph.D. in Robotics and Signal Processing from Pierre and Marie Curie University (now a part of the Sorbonne University group) and a Dual Master's in Mechanics and Electronics from ESME-Sudria. He is currently a board member of the Industrial Advisory Board for SFU Mechatronics School of Engineering and, in his spare time, enjoys outdoor activities, martial arts, and anything sci-fi related.

About Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary is on a mission to create the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots that will help us work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. And in the not-too-distant future, help us explore, settle, and prosper in outer space.

Members of the Sanctuary team founded D-Wave (a pioneer in the quantum computing industry), Kindred (first use of reinforcement learning in a production robot), and the Creative Destruction Lab (pioneered a revolutionary method for the commercialization of science for the betterment of humankind).

The team has experience launching market-defining innovations rooted in previously unsolved and deep scientific problems.