Nottingham-based robotic process automation (RPA) specialist, The Robot Exchange (TRX), has named award-winning tech entrepreneur, Elizabeth Gooch MBE, as chair.
The new role has been created to help the growing business expand its current offering by scaling up and accelerating the creation and delivery of its innovative RPA solutions in the UK and expanding overseas markets.
Gooch’s technology career began after she pioneered an emerging technology market that today is worth over $3bn. That software is now used in over 50 countries by blue-chip international companies in financial services, utilities, telcos, business process outsourcing and the public sector.
Her career highlights include; The Telegraph’s Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs, Finance Monthly CEO Award, PCR’s Top 50 Women in Technology, West Midlands Women of the Year Outstanding Contribution to Technology Award. Gooch was also awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2012.
The Robot Exchange, led by CEO Andy Wallace, specialises in developing and deploying RPA solutions for SMEs; enabling smaller customers to gain the same process efficiencies and reduced wastage of resource and time previously enjoyed by bigger businesses.
Speaking about Elizabeth’s appointment, Andy Wallace, CEO at The Robot Exchange, said: “This is a major moment for The Robot Exchange. We have ambitious plans and attracting someone of Elizabeth’s character speaks volumes for our potential. Now that she is on the team, we cannot wait to begin this exciting next step in the journey of The Robot Exchange.”
Speaking about her appointment, Elizabeth Gooch MBE said: “Staffing and recruitment is a massive challenge for SMEs and, at the same time, their processes have often lacked attention, becoming unwieldy and time consuming. TRX enables them to reduce the amount of work and resources locked up in manual processes and to leverage the faster roll-out of cloud based RPA solutions that the major corporations enjoy.
“I am looking forward to working with Andy on scaling his company and accelerating its transition from unassisted to autonomous RPA. It has the potential to become a major enabler for ambitious, forward thinking organisations in the modern economy and that is a very exciting challenge.”
