SafetyCulture’s US-based CEO will depart subsequent month after only a 12 months in cost the Sydney tech unicorn, with founder and govt chairman Luke Anear returning to the helm.
Former US Particular Forces Inexperienced Beret Kelly Vohs, who took over from Anear on January 1 last year, will depart on March 31 after 14 months. An announcement from the corporate mentioned the choice “follows considerate discussions in regards to the enterprise’s rapid priorities and the significance of getting a constant CEO presence at our Sydney headquarters”.
Anear can be interim CEO.
“Whereas he’s worn a special hat this previous 12 months, Luke has remained energetic within the enterprise, and having constructed the corporate imaginative and prescient, he’s greatest positioned to steer whereas we discover the precise long-term substitute,” a SafetyCulture spokesperson mentioned, including that Vohs “leaves the enterprise higher than he discovered it”.
Chatting with Capital Brief, Anear said the software program enterprise wanted a serious rebuild within the AI period, and that meant having somebody in Sydney main the challenge. Vohs has a household of teenage kids within the US and reportedly flagged the problem of embedding AI in SafetyCulture’s knowledge set of greater than 3.5 billion worksite pictures to assist corporations make sense of their points.
“We can assist our clients perceive what nice seems like within the office and what unhealthy seems like higher than anybody,” Anear advised Capital Transient.
The office security app final raised $75 million in late 2024 at a $2.5 billion valuation, $200 million lower than its earlier spherical.
