VIQ Solutions Inc. announced the appointment of Susan Sumner, a highly experienced international executive, as Chief Operating Officer. As Chief Operating Officer, Mrs. Sumner’s primary mandate is to build a world-class operational infrastructure to ensure quality and scale to support rapid revenue growth and to deploy core technologies capable of adapting to global market requirements building off of it’s innovative AI technology platform aiAssistTM. Aggressively focusing on this operational foundation ensures its’s customers a simple to use, highly accurate machine-generated digital transcript draft service will accelerate the uptake of it’s AI technology within the voice-to-text markets, greatly increase revenue and position it to develop further purpose-built AI innovations for its key global markets. These strategies align well with increasing software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings that VIQ is delivering to reduce upfront customer costs. With over 30 years in executive leadership and operations management roles in Fortune 500 companies, Ms. Sumner has successfully combined several middle-market operating companies in the medical transcription space generating a successful exit for capital providers. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Sumner was Vice President of Nuance Corporations Healthcare ambulatory division where she oversaw the acquisition and integration of multiple transcription and IT platform businesses.