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# Steffen Tjerrild

COO and co-founder

Steffen Tjerrild is the COO and co-founder of Synthesia, the world’s leading video communications platform for enterprises. More than 65,000 businesses, including over 80% of the Fortune 100, use it to communicate efficiently and share knowledge at scale using AI avatars. Synthesia is headquartered in London and makes video creation, collaboration and sharing easy for everyone.

On a daily basis, Steffen passionately drives strategic client relationships, forms impactful partnerships, and oversees daily operations. With an unwavering commitment to innovation and operational excellence, Steffen has cemented the company's position as a market leader, paving the way for the adoption of generative AI in real-world use cases. His investment and startup experience from his time working in Europe and Africa form the bedrock of his leadership.

## Latest blog posts by Steffen Tjerrild

Tool and strategies modern teams need to help their companies grow.

**AWS and Synthesia extend their collaboration to advance AI video adoption**  
Today, Synthesia and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are expanding their collaboration to accelerate the adoption of AI video in the enterprise space. As a result, our AI video platform is now available through AWS Marketplace, we have increased our use of AWS cloud services to help train our models faster to meet the growing demand for enterprise AI video, and AWS has adopted our AI Dubbing technology to localize its own marketing content.