Danny Keough is Vice President of Customer Success at SmartSense by Digi. He began his career on the baseball field coaching college athletics and scouting for various MLB baseball teams. Danny joined SmartTemps in 2014 to build the Customer Success organization. When Digi acquired SmartTemps in 2017, Danny became Director of Customer Success at SmartSense. He now heads the entire team and helps ensure customers achieve their desired outcomes.
Mitsunaga Kikuchi founded Shirofune in 2014, an automated advertising management tool that maximizes the efficiency and productivity of major digital advertising platforms. The Shirofune platform is designed to maximize advertising effectiveness by automating day-to-day digital ad campaigns using a single, easy-to-use interface for management, budgeting, monitoring and analytics. Over 10,000 accounts have been automated using Shirofune, including 300,000 active ad campaigns.
John S. Kim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sendbird (YC W16), the customer communications platform powering 4,000 of the world's most popular digital applications. 7 billion messages sent and received between over 320 million people every month are routed using Sendbird, whose customers include DoorDash, Match Group, Virgin Mobile, Noom and Paytm. The company has raised $220 million USD to-date, backed by reputable investors including ICONIQ Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Shasta Ventures, Y Combinator and more.
Before that, Jamie led operations for a global services organization of 3,500 people and drove the transformation of multiple areas of their business, including learning services, partner delivery, security and compliance, and systems innovation.
Tony Klimas brings 25 years of consulting experience to his role as Horvath USA President and partner with a specialization in finance transformation and enabling technologies. An Ohio native and proud first-generation American, he attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD majoring in Mathematics and subsequently serving as an Officer aboard several Navy ships. After leaving active duty, he received his MBA in finance, graduating with honors from the Kelley School at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Rameet Kohli is Co-Founder, President & COO of Metrical, a start-up that enables e-commerce retailers to use AI to predict the behavior of their online shoppers – preventing bounce and converting them to customers. He’s worked in both the private and public sectors for organizations including GE, Chevron, IBM, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), FHI 360 and BSR. He holds an MBA from Univ. of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from UCDavis.
Yochai has over 20 years of experience developing and leading innovative AI technology teams. His experience in machine learning and research is a culmination of his work in a range of settings from academia, government agencies, startups, and large enterprises. Over the last two decades, the contact center and specifically how customers interact with enterprises, has been the commercial target of this research and its applications. Yochai leverages these experiences to help Ada transform the customer experience and enable companies to deliver the kind of personalized service consumers want.
She got her business and leadership education graduating from Harvard Executive Education and data-driven attitude in marketing from data science MA in Warsaw.
Ola actively supports startups in the CEE region, as an advisor for non-profit and Google for Startups consulting programs. Amateur climber, novice piano player, and a great fan of the remote-first working culture.
Pierre Kremer is the VP of Digital Engagement at EPAM, where he advises enterprises across various sectors to ignite start-up thinking. With a long track record of using agile methodologies, Pierre supports companies to increase customer value, drive operational effectiveness and thrive in a digital world. His expertise lies in digital, CRM, eCommerce strategy, omnichannel, design and implementation, emphasizing the consumer, pharma, travel, financial services, retail and energy sectors.
Jamie Kress, Director of RFID Sales at Sensormatic Solutions has more than 20 years of experience in RFID solutions and strategic consulting for the retail industry. Jamie has worked with Sensormatic Solutions for over 16 years specializing in retail business processes, inventory management, technology implementation and loss prevention analytics and innovations.
Global Executive: 20+ years in consulting, tech, business services. EC-1 partner (10 years) in IT/Business Consulting. Expert in global strategy, shared services across APAC, Americas, Europe, Africa. P&L leadership: £2.4B revenue, 3000 staff. Change driver in large organisations, Financial Services focus. CEO-level experience, led complex multi-national projects and cross-border teams. Seeking role to drive growth/innovation in ambitious organisation.