Mr. Gabriel Rene reports

VERSES PROMOTES HARI THIRUVENGADA PHD TO CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Verses AI Inc.'s Dr. Hari Thiruvengada has been promoted to chief product officer as the company aggressively focuses on shipping its flagship product, Genius.

Dr. Thiruvengada was previously vice-president of product and the promotion follows the company's commercial progression, with an emphasis on the upcoming launch of Genius, Verses's intelligence-as-a-service platform. Prior to joining Verses, Dr. Thiruvengada was at Honeywell in various positions, including director of product management, director of user experience and global design director. During his tenure, he launched Honeywell's first WiFi connected thermostat family of products with mobile app, as well as leading initiatives in material handling, robotics, SaaS (software as a service) and data analytics.

"I started my career in research and gravitated towards product management because I thoroughly enjoy nurturing emerging technologies into useful tools," says Dr. Thiruvengada. "I am pleased to apply my experience along with the discipline and rigour of product development to mature our research and technologies into commercial software."

"Hari is the ideal person to unite and lead research, product and engineering into our next phase of growth," said Verses chief executive officer Gabriel Rene. "His leadership and experience shipping product aligns perfectly with our transformation from a technology centric start-up to a product driven scale-up."

Dr. Thiruvengada has a PhD in industrial engineering and human factors and an MS in computer science from Penn State, as well as over two decades of research development and product management. The chief product officer role replaces the role of chief technology officer, held by Jason Fox, who is no longer with the company.

About Verses AI Inc.

Verses AI is a cognitive computing company specializing in biologically inspired distributed intelligence. its flagship offering, Genius, is patterned after natural systems and neuroscience. Genius can learn, adapt and interact with the world. Key features of Genius include generalizability, predictive queries, real-time adaptation and an automated computing network. Built on open standards, Genius transforms disparate data into knowledge models that foster trustworthy collaboration between humans, machines and AI (artificial intelligence), across digital and physical domains. Imagine a smarter world that elevates human potential through innovations inspired by nature.