Meet Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO of Roam at NextGen Local: AI, Search and Digital Marketing Conference 2025!

Howard Lerman is the Founder & CEO of Roam, the Office of the Future: a Virtual HQ where people and AI coworkers collaborate with full company visualization, presence, spontaneous drop-ins, video meetings, AI note-taking, and AI Agents.

From 2006 to 2022, Howard was Founder & CEO of Yext (NYSE: YEXT), pioneering the pay-per-call and business listings markets. He also founded Confide, a confidential messenger used by millions and sold to IAC, and co-founded Intwine, sold in 2005. While in college, he launched and sold JustATip.com.

Howard holds a history degree from Duke University and attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

Keynote: The AI Business Revolution

In his keynote, Howard explores how AI is transforming SMBs into “AIBs” – lean, global, AI-native businesses that are always on. Tens of millions of companies will either become AIBs or be created as one.