Javed Khan became CEO of Neat in March 2026, taking charge of an Oslo-based technology company focused on intelligent video collaboration devices. Neat was founded in 2019 and has since deployed over 600,000 devices across 20,000 customers in 90 countries.
The company’s work sits at the intersection of video collaboration hardware and artificial intelligence. Its portfolio combines purpose-built cameras, microphones, displays, audio systems, and processing hardware with an AI-powered distributed architecture. The devices support Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, along with bring-your-own-device configurations.
For Khan, the appeal is not simply adding AI to meeting equipment. He sees a larger shift in where computing happens and how collaboration tools respond to the people using them.
A career built around technology in use
Khan brings more than two decades of leadership experience in enterprise collaboration, intelligent systems, edge computing, and cybersecurity. Before joining Neat, he served as Executive Vice President and President of Intelligent Systems at Aptiv, spent more than nine years at Cisco as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Collaboration, and worked for 14 years at Symantec as Vice President of Enterprise Security.
Those roles connected different parts of the technology industry, from collaboration software and enterprise security to intelligent systems and edge computing. Khan describes the common thread as a focus on products that operate in real settings and serve large groups of users.
“Building products that get used at scale has always been at the heart of what I do, and that’s how you find out fast whether you’re actually solving a problem,” Khan said.
His time at Cisco gave him a close view of how video conferencing changed its place in business. “At Cisco, I watched video conferencing go from a boardroom luxury to the backbone of how the world works,” he said.
That experience now connects with the work he saw at Aptiv. “At Aptiv, I saw intelligent edge computing quietly transform entire industries — automotive, aerospace, robotics — in ways most people didn’t notice until suddenly they couldn’t imagine working without it,” Khan said.
“What connected both was the same thing: intelligence moving closer to where things actually happen.”
Why AI matters inside the conference room
Neat’s devices use AI for functions such as intelligent framing, audio optimization, and adaptive meeting experiences. These features place processing closer to the room where the meeting takes place, matching Khan’s view that useful intelligence should move nearer to the point of action.
The change depends on the progress of AI models and the hardware that runs them. “In the last couple of years, AI models have become small enough and powerful enough to run directly on a device sitting in a conference room,” Khan said.
That shift gives Neat a clear reason to combine cameras, microphones, displays, audio systems, and processing hardware in one portfolio. The company’s AI-powered distributed architecture ties those components together while keeping the focus on collaboration across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet.
Neat’s support for bring-your-own-device configurations also places its equipment within different meeting setups. The company’s devices are designed to work with the platforms and arrangements customers already use, while adding capabilities such as intelligent framing and audio optimization.
Khan does not describe on-device AI as a small upgrade to existing meeting equipment. “That’s not an incremental improvement. That’s a fundamental shift in what’s possible, and frankly, it’s an incredibly exciting time to be in this industry,” he said.
“That’s why Neat made sense.”
Scale gives the strategy a real-world test
Neat’s growth since its founding in 2019 gives the company a large installed base for its approach. Over 600,000 devices are deployed across 20,000 customers in 90 countries, putting its collaboration hardware in a wide range of customer environments.
Those numbers also reflect the kind of scale Khan has emphasized throughout his career. His earlier work at Cisco, Aptiv, and Symantec covered collaboration, intelligent systems, edge computing, and cybersecurity, but his stated focus remains practical: build products, put them to work, and learn whether they solve a real problem.
As CEO, Khan is leading Neat at a point when AI can run directly on a device in a conference room. The company’s portfolio brings that capability into cameras, microphones, displays, audio systems, and processing hardware, with support for major collaboration platforms and bring-your-own-device configurations.
For Neat, the story is not AI as a separate feature. It is AI built into the equipment people use to meet, communicate, and work together. Khan’s background helps explain the direction: collaboration became essential, intelligent systems moved closer to where work happens, and meeting-room devices are now gaining the processing power to respond in real time.
