Executive Management

  • Stephen
    Stephen Ehikian Chief Executive Officer
    Stephen Ehikian Chief Executive Officer

    Stephen Ehikian is Chief Executive Officer of C3 AI. He is a seasoned technology executive in the enterprise software industry and public-sector leader. Mr. Ehikian successfully built and scaled RelateIQ and Airkit.ai — both acquired by Salesforce. RelateIQ underpins Salesforce Einstein, and Airkit.ai is now a core component of Salesforce Agentforce. He also served as President Trump’s appointee as Acting Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, spearheading historic reforms in federal procurement and technology modernization, pioneering AI adoption, and unlocking billions in taxpayer savings. Mr. Ehikian received a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering and economics from Yale University, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

  • Edward Y. Abbo
    Edward Y. Abbo Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
    Edward Y. Abbo Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

    Mr. Abbo has served as our Chief Technology Officer since July 2011. He previously served as our Chief Executive Officer from September 2009 to July 2011 and a member of our board of directors from August 2009 to November 2020.

    Prior to joining us, Mr. Abbo served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems from July 1994 until it merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006, and Senior Vice President of Oracle Corporation from January 2006 to July 2009.

    Mr. Abbo holds a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  • Hitesh Lath
    Hitesh Lath Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
    Hitesh Lath Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

    Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Hitesh Lath served as the C3 AI’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer from December 2023 to February 2024.

    Before joining C3 AI, Mr. Lath spent over 22 years with EY and was most recently a partner in their San Jose, CA office. At EY, he served several technology clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to Silicon Valley startups.

    Mr. Lath holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of California.

  • Merel Witteveen
    Merel Witteveen Senior Vice President, Operations
    Merel Witteveen Senior Vice President, Operations

    Merel Witteveen is Senior Vice President, Operations at C3 AI. Having held multiple roles within the company over her tenure, Ms. Witteveen has deep experience within products, marketing, operations, and alliances. In her previous role at C3 AI as Group Vice President of Alliances, she focused on programs and partnerships to accelerate the evolution of C3 AI as a company that serves hundreds of customers to a company that serves thousands of customers. She led a team that established a strong and growing global partner and system integrator network with companies such as Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, and Booz Allen.

    Before C3 AI, Ms. Witteveen was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She was also a member of the Dutch Olympic Sailing Team for six years and holds a silver medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

    She holds a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Amsterdam, an M.S. in Applied Physics from Utrecht University, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.