Dag Kittlaus

Dag Kittlaus is the co-founder and CEO of Riva Health, a company that uses mobile technology and AI to drastically improve hypertension management. Prior to its founding in 2020, Kittlaus co-founded Siri, the world's first Virtual Personal Assistant, and Viv Labs, another artificial intelligence software. He served as CEO of Siri for two years before it was acquired by Apple in 2010, and he transitioned to the position of Director of Siri and Speech Recognition. Additionally, he served as the CEO of Viv Labs from 2012 to 2019 and became Vice President of Samsung Mobile after the company acquired Viv Labs. Both Siri and Viv Labs utilized technology to simplify day-to-day life, which he is once again pursuing with Riva Health.

A serial innovator and consumer wireless internet veteran of 10 years in Scandinavia and the US, Kittlaus has held leadership roles as VP of Consumer Internet Services at Scandinavian telecom giant Telenor Mobile, and several consumer product groups at Motorola including GM of xProducts and founder and GM of Motorola’s Interactive Media Group. He conceived and launched Screen3, a breakthrough consumer mobile application currently used by millions of users and adopted by Cingular, China Mobile, and Telefonica.

Kittlaus attended Indiana University Bloomington for his Bachelor's in economics and BI Norwegian Business School for his MBA.