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WellSaid Appoints CFO Benjamin Dorr as Chief Executive Officer

WellSaid Appoints CFO Benjamin Dorr as Chief Executive Officer

Business Wire14-05-2025

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- WellSaid, the industry's most trusted AI voice platform for businesses, today announced the appointment of Benjamin Dorr as Chief Executive Officer. Dorr, previously WellSaid's Chief Financial Officer, is taking on the leadership role to help the company drive further growth in enterprise solutions for WellSaid Studio and expand the potential of AI voice through the official rollout of its highly anticipated ' Caruso ' foundational model. With Caruso, WellSaid will deliver the highest quality-to-cost ratio in the Text-to-Speech industry.
'Ben's proven expertise in leading growth-stage companies will be invaluable as we continue to scale and advance our AI voice capabilities for enterprise customers,' said Matt Hocking, founder and Executive Chairman at WellSaid. 'During his tenure as CFO, he demonstrated his strong operational sense and ability to partner cross-functionally to drive our strategy. As he steps into the role of CEO to help take the company to the next level, we have no doubt that Ben's impressive track record will play an essential role in WellSaid's long-term success, especially as we prepare to deliver our highest quality model yet.'
Dorr brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience operating and investing in high-growth companies. Prior to joining WellSaid, Dorr was the Chief Operating Officer of Cordial, an enterprise cross-channel marketing platform and two-time Deloitte Fast 500 selection, where he delivered a 10-fold increase in annual recurring revenue and orchestrated more than $80 million in equity and debt financing to drive expansion. He also held executive roles at Rhythm NewMedia, Rustic Pathways, Counsyl, and Valassis, where he helped quadruple digital revenue through acquisition. Dorr started his career at Citi, Morgan Stanley, and The Carlyle Group, and received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in computer science and public policy.
'I've spent my time at WellSaid learning the ins and outs of our business,' said Dorr. 'WellSaid is not only driving unprecedented innovation in AI voiceover technology, with AI voices that achieve human parity and commercial quality, but we're also setting a new industry standard for responsible and ethical AI practices. My career and education have been shaped by looking at the cross-section of technology and ethics, and as CEO, I look forward to leading the company through this next chapter of growth.'
WellSaid's enterprise AI voice platform enables users to create natural sounding voiceovers in seconds for corporate training, advertising and marketing, product and customer education, and more. Unlike competitors, WellSaid's closed-source platform uses exclusive voice data from professional voice actors who have all consented and are compensated for their work. This approach ensures WellSaid customers have commercial usage rights for any voice content they create on the WellSaid platform. WellSaid is trusted by over 50 percent of the Fortune 500, including LinkedIn, T-Mobile, ServiceNow, Accenture, and more.
About WellSaid
WellSaid is an advanced AI voice platform. The company's Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology leverages proprietary AI models, which are trained on exclusive and licensed voice data, to generate natural sounding voice overs. WellSaid's TTS system can produce unique dialects, accents, and languages to optimize audio content creation for corporate training, advertising, products, experiences, video production, publishing, audiobooks, and more. Built with ethics at its core, WellSaid's responsible AI platform is trusted by 50 percent of leading Fortune 500 brands including LinkedIn, T-Mobile, ServiceNow, and Accenture. For more information, visit wellsaid.io.

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