About Us
Meet the team building the future of brand
management on AI Search
Built with experience from
Andrew Yan
CEO
Former Google Search PM who helped define the future of AI-powered search with Google and DeepMind. B.A. in Computer Science & Math from Columbia University.
Today, helping global brands adapt to AI Search disruption.
Alan Yao
CTO
Former ServiceNow platform engineer and founder of Cribbly, an AI property management tool. Building with GPT‑2 since 2020. B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and Statistics from UIUC.
Prefers shipping code over slide decks, dark mode over sunlight, and will absolutely tell you he’ll ‘just refactor one thing’ before dinner.
Renan Serrano
Founding Evangelist
Former Athena power-user who scaled a CPG brand. Winner of 12+ awards including Singularity University, SXSW, and TEDx speaker. Highly technical and research-driven. When not helping Athena and Fortune 500s grow and protect their AI search moats, he’s filing patents worldwide, championing recycling and plant-based diets, surfing with his family, and advancing Athena’s market-leading AI strategies.
Merrick Liu
Founding Engineer
Former engineer at Mercury. Worked on credit and debit card processing. Built various AI-powered tools, and did research on biologically plausible deep learning algorithms.
Will graduate from the University of Toronto at some point.
Ganesh Asapu
Founding Engineer
Former ML engineer at Cohere, Voiceflow, and Wisedocs. Built SOTA LLMs, shipped AI agents into finance, healthcare, and insurance, and somehow still likes datasets. On leave from the University of Toronto to build AthenaHQ.
James Moreno
Founding GTM
Formerly at Reputation.com, where he helped brands and agencies optimize their public image and digital presence, with a focus on reputation management that drives growth and protects brand equity.
Grant Harvey
Founding GTM
Grant enjoys long walks on the golf course when he is not helping folks crush their GEO goals. He will always find a way to tell you he played D1 college sport and how much his back hurts. When people ask him where he went to college, he just shrugs his shoulders and says a small school in Boston.
Our Investors
We are grateful to be backed by
industry-leading investors and advisors.
Firms
Founders and Leaders From
Our Advisors
We are fortunate to be guided by
industry veterans and thought leaders.
Rachel Ten Brink
Co-Founder, former CMO Scentbird.
Former marketing exec at Estée Lauder and Bacardi
Ashley Stirrup
Former CMO of Algolia
Ethelbert Williams
Head of Retail Media Search & DTC Marketing, PepsiCo
Eli Schwartz
SEO leader, advisor to Coinbase, WordPress, Tinder, Shutterstock, and more