Leadership and Advisors
Our executive and advisory team has decades of experience in leadership roles with digital organizations in a variety of industries. From startups to IPO and beyond, our team has the knowledge, insight and experience to deliver the next generation of analytics solutions that drive business decision making.
LEADERSHIP
Brent Arslaner
Co-founder and CEO
Brent Arslaner has been helping venture backed B2B SaaS start-ups rapidly scale for the last 20 years. During his career, he has been instrumental in working with five organizations that were acquired and one that went public. For the record, he claims that he has learned more from the ones that didn’t work out.
Brent has held various executive positions within sales, marketing and product for a number of industry leading technology brands including Oracle, Broadbase, Unisfair and Switchfly. He is adept at creating strategic plans with a hands-on execution approach. He is passionate about helping companies harness the power of data.
Brent currently lives in Sarasota, Florida with his wife, three children and a dog. He lived in Paris, France for three years, but his French is still not very good. When he is not working, he enjoys international travel, mountain biking, scuba diving, snowboarding and basketball.
David Palmer
Co-founder and COO
David Palmer is a visionary business intelligence and analytics leader with more than 20 years of strategic and hands-on experience transforming companies into data-driven organizations.
He has served as a chief architect and lead developer of multiple enterprise-wide data architecture transformations, overseeing migration from archaic architectures with multiple data silos to cloud-based architectures with high data quality and self-serve access to information. He also has designed, developed and launched new analytical products for a variety of companies including Greensky, Global Credit Union, Premier Healthcare and Verizon.
David currently lives in Atlanta Georgia with his wife and their two dogs, and he is the proud parent of three successful adult children. He recently launched Best Day Ever (bdever.life), a movement that helps connect people by sharing stories of kindness that inspire others to do good, today. When not working, he enjoys playing men’s ice hockey and spending time with his family.
ADVISORS
Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Armstrong is currently a Partner at Khosla Ventures (KV), where he focuses on enterprise technology and digital healthcare companies. Prior to joining KV, Bruce was CEO of PivotLink (SaaS business intelligence), CEO of Kickfire (data warehouse appliance for MySQL), and the CEO of publicly-traded KNOVA Software (search-based apps). Earlier in his career, he was the VP and GM of the server products group at Sybase, where he ran the company’s enterprise database management business. Bruce began his career as one of the first 20 employees at Teradata Corporation.
Patrick Kelly
Patrick Kelly currently serves as the Chief Data Intelligence Officer at PRGX, the global leader in source-to-pay analytics and profit recovery services. He has many years’ experience leading and growing product and data science organizations, selling enterprise technology, and building and executing winning business strategies. Patrick has extensive experience in the US grocery and retail industries and has led teams developing, launching, and scaling commercial and merchandise analytics solutions. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Science degree in Analytics from the University of Chicago. He calls Cincinnati, OH home where he lives with his wife and three children.
Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly has 20 years of executive management experience in technology companies. He has held the role of CEO, CMO, and CPO at a number of companies, ranging in size from self-founded start-ups to publicly traded enterprises. Brian has raised capital from top-tier VCs multiple times, and led companies from product launch through successful IPO and acquisition. His passion and expertise are focused in the areas of product strategy, establishing product-market fit, and executing scalable growth strategies.
Devin Long
Devin Long is a high-performing, results-driven global entrepreneur who truly speaks the languages of marketing, data and AI, as well as digital and mobile technologies. He has extensive experience in market-to-market planning, in-store implementation and tracking (image recognition), with a proven track record of developing KPIs for business planning that leverages data and technology. Devin has led several CPG initiatives in consumer marketing with a number of Alc-Bev organizatons including Anheuser Busch Inbev, Miller Coors, and Heineken. He has also held executive leadership roles with Neilsen and Omnivor Technology as well.
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