SeekOut Names Sean Thompson as CEO to Lead the Agentic AI Recruiting Revolution

SeekOut Names Sean Thompson as CEO to Lead the Agentic AI Recruiting Revolution

Veteran B2B executive joins SeekOut to scale agentic AI recruiting of AI-forward talent. Founder Anoop Gupta transitions to Executive Chairman.

SeekOut, the agentic AI recruiting platform helping companies hire AI-forward talent, announced that Sean Thompson will join the company as Chief Executive Officer, effective May 4, 2026. Co-founder Anoop Gupta, who has led SeekOut since its founding in 2017, will transition to Executive Chairman of the Board.

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“SeekOut is one of the most consequential companies being built in AI recruiting today. Talent acquisition is being rewritten by agentic AI, and SeekOut is uniquely positioned to lead that shift.”

Thompson is a Seattle-based enterprise software veteran who most recently served as President and CEO of NAVEX, a global SaaS leader in governance, risk, and compliance. He previously held senior leadership roles at SAP Ariba and Microsoft, and co-founded Nuiku, an NLP and AI company. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

“After more than a decade building SeekOut, this is the right moment to pass the baton,” said Gupta. “Sean is the right leader to take what we’ve built and scale it to its full potential. He brings deep enterprise experience and the humility, humanity, and values this team deserves. I’m excited to continue supporting Sean and the leadership team as Executive Chairman.”

Thompson joins at a pivotal moment. Every company is racing to hire AI-forward talent, and SeekOut is leading the shift from AI-powered to agentic AI recruiting to help them do it. Thompson brings the precise playbook this moment demands: a track record of scaling global enterprise software businesses, deep B2B go-to-market experience, and hands-on AI product credibility. That combination of enterprise scale, category leadership, and AI fluency positions him to accelerate SeekOut’s next chapter.

SeekOut’s platform is built for exactly this shift. Through SeekOut Spot, the company pairs agentic AI with expert recruiters to deliver interview-ready candidates in less than two weeks at 70% lower cost than alternatives. Through SeekOut Recruit, it puts AI directly in recruiters’ hands across more than 1 billion candidate profiles. SeekOut applies agentic AI to the full recruiting lifecycle, from outbound sourcing and inbound evaluation to AI screening and personalized candidate engagement.

“SeekOut is one of the most consequential companies being built in AI recruiting today,” said Thompson. “Anoop, Aravind, and the team have created something rare: a category-defining platform, world-class customers, and a culture that genuinely cares. Talent acquisition is being rewritten by agentic AI, and SeekOut is uniquely positioned to lead that shift. I’m honored to join, and eager to listen, learn, and help SeekOut win the next decade.”

“Anoop has built SeekOut into a category leader with extraordinary customer love and a differentiated AI platform,” said Soma Somasegar, Managing Director at Madrona and SeekOut Board member. “Sean is exactly the leader for this next chapter, a proven operator with the values and instincts to scale SeekOut thoughtfully. SeekOut has a team built to win as AI reshapes how the world hires.”

Co-founder Aravind Bala will continue as CTO, leading product, engineering, and innovation, and will partner closely with Thompson to drive SeekOut’s next phase of growth.

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