Alex Holt appointed as Field CTO at ElevenLabs

Alex Holt has been appointed as the Field CTO at ElevenLabs, where he will lead efforts to integrate AI into customer production systems, focusing on delivering impactful outcomes. Having joined the company in 2023 as one of its first employees, Holt has played a crucial role in product development, scaling engineering functions, and shaping the company culture as it grew from fewer than ten employees to over 500. His notable achievements include leading a significant voice agent project in California and previously working at Palantir on high-stakes engineering deployments with the NHS during the Covid crisis. Holt and the Forward Deployed Engineering team have collaborated with Fortune 500 companies and governments globally to transition AI from pilot stages to production, such as deploying live translation agents for Deutsche Telekom and voice agents for the Ukrainian Government. His appointment marks the beginning of a new leadership phase at ElevenLabs, aiming to further expand AI applications worldwide.