FIVN News & Events

Five9 (FIVN) announced the appointments of Niranjan Vijayaragavan as Five9's new Chief Technology Officer, Rob Hornish as its new Chief Sales Officer, and Sven Linsmaier as Executive Vice President, Transformation and Strategy, effective June 29. Vijayaragavan served recently as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Nintex. Hornish most recently served as Chief Sales Officer at Redaptive. Linsmaier most recently served as VP of Business Finance and Operations at Workday (WDAY).

Five9 launched a breakthrough new release of Voice AI Agents, the next generation of agentic self-service that runs on a completely new, purpose-built architecture designed from the ground up for the agentic era, helping enterprises move beyond scripted bots and legacy Interactive Voice Response systems. Built to reason, take action, and resolve customer requests, Five9 Voice AI Agents bring agentic AI capabilities to customer self-service, helping organizations automate complex interactions while ensuring smooth, friction-free handoffs between AI and live agents.