About us

Business travel shouldn’t be a headache, but too often, it is. Searching through endless flight options, dealing with delays, and scrambling to rebook when things go wrong takes up way too much time. That’s why we built Otto, an AI travel agent that learns your preferences, handles bookings, and solves problems before they even reach you.

Our backgrounds are in travel tech and AI, and we’ve seen firsthand how frustrating business travel can be.

Michael Gulmann, our CEO, has 14 years in travel at Expedia and Egencia (now Amex GBT) leading product teams that helped millions of travelers book trips.

Before launching Otto, Michael spent more than a decade at Expedia, where he served as Senior Vice President of Consumer Product and Egencia as Chief Product Officer & SVP of Marketing. In this role, he played a key part in improving the traveler experience, leading teams that built user-friendly products and enhanced Expedia and Egencia's platforms to make trip planning easier and more efficient.

Chundong "CD" Wang, our CTO, built real-time machine learning systems at Uber, improving the driver experience at 700+ airports worldwide. We knew business travel could be easier, smarter, and more personal. So we built Otto to do just that.

Before launching Otto, CD held leadership roles at CloudKitchens, Uber, Snap Inc., and Microsoft. At CloudKitchens, he built a real-time data platform processing billions of order events and led the Revenue Recapture product that became one of the fastest growing SaaS product. At Uber, he led the Airport Engineering teams, optimizing airport Uber experiences across 700+ airports worldwide using real-time forecasting and machine learning.