Automated Insights, a Stats Perform company, announced on Monday their new vice president of sales, Michael Soluri.

Soluri most recently served as the chief revenue officer of EDM Group, a private, global outsourced technology company. Prior to EDM Group, Soluri held several key management positions for Lexmark International, where he spent nearly two decades building annuity contracts.

“We are excited to have Michael on board to lead our NLG sales group as he brings extensive experience successfully managing high-performing sales groups for global technology companies,” said Steve Xeller, chief revenue officer at Stats Perform.

“Automated Insights and Stats Perform are at the forefront of a lot of exciting work in NLG and artificial intelligence and I am thrilled to join the team,” Soluri said.

Automated Insights is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first self-service natural language generation platform for business intelligence.