Daniel Dines

Daniel Dines is co-founder, chairman and CEO of UiPath[1], an automation company headquartered at One Vanderbilt in New York City. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bucharest, earned between 1990 and 1997[7]. Dines began his career as Developer Lead at Crinsoft from March 1996 to January 2001[6], followed by a position as Software Development Engineer at Microsoft from February 2001 to September 2005[5]. He founded UiPath in October 2005[3] and has served as its CEO and founder[2]. In October 2020, Dines became co-founder of Crew Capital[4].

Founded

• CUiPath

Insights & ideas

Daniel Dines sees agentic AI as a natural extension of RPA, arguing that both technologies share the same goal of imitating how people actually perform manual processes, first by capturing keystrokes and clicks, now by inserting AI agents into steps robots could not previously handle [1][2]. He contends that a strong foundation of deterministic automation must precede intelligence, comparing this to evolution where simple, reliable organisms preceded higher intelligence, and warns that most companies fail to see AI ROI because they build low-impact chatbots and pursue small, low-risk use cases instead of tackling painful, high-value processes [2]. He believes horizontal platforms are hard to build in AI's much larger category than RPA, so newcomers should focus on vertical agents tied to deep process knowledge, while orchestration, coordinating agents, robots and people, has become the critical emerging need at scale [1]. Internally, he pushed adoption through incentive plans and reframed agentic AI as a way to grow customer reach rather than cut headcount [2].

Experience

1. CEO & Founder

   UiPathOct 2005 to Present
2. Co-Founder

   Crew CapitalOct 2020 to Present
3. SDE

   MicrosoftFeb 2001 to Sep 2005
4. Developer Lead

   CrinsoftMar 1996 to Jan 2001

Education

• University of Bucharest · MS, Mathematics and Computer Science1990 - 1997

Media & appearances

• Daniel Dines, UiPath | UiPath Fusion 2025 - YouTubeSep 30, 2025

  Daniel Dines, CEO and founder of UiPath, discusses why 95% of companies aren't seeing ROI from AI pilots, arguing that companies need a strong foundation of automation before adding intelligence. He explains that organizations are pursuing small use cases with limited impact instead of tackling bigger, more painful problems that would drive broader adoption. Dines also describes UiPath's internal approach to building organizational buy-in for agentic AI, including incentive plans tied to AI adoption and reframing the initiative as growing customer reach without increasing workforce size.

• Videos

  Daniel Dines, CEO of UiPath, discusses how RPA and agentic AI share similar automation goals by imitating manual processes, and explains UiPath's transition from robotic process automation to agent AI as a natural extension. He addresses orchestration as an emerging critical need for deploying multiple agents and robots at scale, and shares that UiPath has more than 10,000 enterprise customers.

• UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI … - Decoder with Nilay Patel ...Apr 7, 2025
• 155 Investing in entrepreneurs building category-defining B2B companies | Podcast with Sonia Damian - Crew CapitalTekpon SaaS Podcast · Sep 8, 2023
• UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs - Podtail

In the news

• Daniel Dines on X@danieldines · May 28, 2026
• Daniel Dines on X@danieldines · Feb 6, 2026
• Daniel Dines on X@danieldines · Jan 27, 2026
• Daniel Dines on X@danieldines · Jan 12, 2026
• Daniel Dines on X@danieldines · Jan 8, 2026

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