Before I co-founded Dexory a decade ago, I had no experience in robotics. I am a go-to-market specialist with degrees in both liberal arts and business, a fiction and fantasy obsessed reader, and I am a woman who comes from a family of doctors. My background isn’t in a lab, on a manufacturing floor or on a campus. I grew up in Romania and after studying in the UK, I spent six years working in marketing, sales, partnerships at Telefonica and Google.
All these things make me quite unusual in my field, robotics, dominated as it is by super-qualified scientists who tend to be men. In the early days at Dexory, it wasn’t unusual to walk into a robotics meeting and be the only woman in the room.
