About Us
We’re Building the future of Voice Technology
Our Mission
Our mission is to democratize access to AI technology, empower collaborative creativity and allow communities to redefine how people express themselves through audio, together.
We believe AI should be accessible, it should be open to everyone and it should be fun.
Meet The Team
Heath Ahrens
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
A true expert in his field, Heath has invented innumerable AI and voice changing technologies for over fifteen years. He established the very first cloud-based, text to speech platform, iSpeech.org in 2007; which brought to market DriveSafe.ly 2009. This was the first app to dictate text messages aloud (CES Best Mobile App 2011, Mashable Best Mobile App 2010) before creating iSpeech Home in 2012; a connected home precursor of Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
Both an early and follow-on investor in multiple tech startups including Andreessen Horowitz-backed, ReadyPlayerMe, Heath has lectured on the social impact of artificial intelligence, bootstrapping and speech technology at many industry conferences including TEDx, NJTC, CTIA, AI World Forum 2017 and Mobile Voice Conference.
After iSpeech, Heath built an enormously robust app portfolio from scratch - building over fifty apps, acquiring a further fifty and exiting over a dozen. He has had iPhone apps in the top 50 and has continuously built technology that is lightyears ahead of its time. At the core of these accomplishments sits a demonstrable love for the power of voice; be it human or synthetic. It is this fervor that sparked the inception of Voice.ai, reverberates throughout the business and ignites excitement with both colleagues and communities alike.
An ex-opera singer, tech paramour and respected advisor for startups, Heath is an avid gearhead and boater, in any spare time he can grab, will be found fly-fishing the flats, eFoiling or being relentlessly humbled by his small children.
Paul Kats
Chief Operating Officer
As a serial entrepreneur and inventor, to say that Paul has a successful
track record in the technology space is an understatement.
In 2011, his team won TechCrunch Disrupt with consumer rewards app, Checkpoints,
before founding video caller ID app, Vyng, in 2014. He grew the app to over
20 million users before exiting to Digital Reef, a digital marketing company.
In mid 2020, Paul helped launch BRCvr, a VR Burning Man Experience, and built a VR e-commerce company that sold to metaverse company, Morpheus XR in 2021.
After being recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 as an innovator in consumer technology he joins Voice.ai as COO where he works cross-functionally across the teams, overseeing business operations and strategy. In his free time, Paul can be found freediving, traveling, guest lecturing at the USC School of Entrepreneurship and coaching young people through the NFTE program.
Johannes Schiefer
Chief Community Officer
A digital marketing leader with over 15 years of experience, Johannes has helped grow and foster passionate communities across gaming and esports. As VP of Digital Marketing at ESL, the world’s largest esports company, he led the company's social media and digital B2C strategy, paving the path to becoming the first esports unicorn. As the owner of digital storytelling, social media and content creators, he worked on activating brands such as DHL, Intel, Mercedes & Vodafone into the world of esports.
In 2020, he moved into synthetic voice technology, becoming CMO of Voicemod,a leading company in the space. There he spear-headed community centric product initiatives and grew the company to a powerhouse of organic content production.
Johannes’ first love is people and building thriving communities that foster collaboration, creativity and innovation. In his spare time he is an avid content creator always looking for ways to make people smile
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