Contributors
Tara Kelly
Tara Kelly is the founder, president & CEO of SPLICE Software, a customer engagement company that specializes in using big data, small data and artificial intelligence to create messages that drive customer engagement and the desired call to action.
Diane Keng
Diane ran three successful businesses before she was 18 and is a noted software innovator who frequently speaks on the intersection of AI, personal data, privacy, and the future of smarter products. Prior to Breinify, she was at Apple and Symantec. She graduated with a B.S. in computer engineering from Santa Clara University.
Kenn Kennedy
A loyalty marketing strategist with over a decade helping Fortune 5000 brands research, plan, implement, and execute global loyalty programs, Kenn Kennedy offers compelling insight about how macroeconomic forces are reshaping customer loyalty. Kenn leads Antavo across the US and Canada, supporting global retail, hospitality, and travel brands.
Danny Keough
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
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 Kim
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.
Jamie Kiser
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.
Myles Kleeger
Myles Kleeger is president and chief customer officer at Braze. An experienced executive with expertise in multiple facets of integrated marketing, marketing technology, and SaaS, Myles previously served in roles at Salesforce, Kaplan Thaler Group, and Alloy, Inc. He holds a BA from Duke University and a MBA from NYU.Lara Kleinert
Lara Kleinert is VP Business Development at HGS
Tony Klimas
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.
Ray Ko
Ray Ko is the Senior Ecommerce Manager at ShopPOPDisplays. With years of experience in the retail space, Ray is an expert in formulating and implementing e-commerce strategies to increase revenue.
Katie Kochelek
Katie is a well-versed point of purchase marketing professional at Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc., with knowledge of in-store merchandising displays, retail fixtures, and interactive and self-service kiosks.
Rameet Kohli
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 Konig
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.
Sai Koppala
Sai Koppala is the CMO at SheerID. Previously, he led a variety of marketing and product teams at global software companies like Google and SAP and start-ups like Proximity (acquired by Apple) and Apigee (acquired by Google).
Aleksandra Korczynska
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.
Chandni Kothari
Chandni Kothari is Biddable Associate Director at Croud, the global digital agency connecting data, technology and creativity to drive business performance.
