Kelly Nyland

Over the past 20 years, Kelly has a hand in building successful tech companies, two of which have realized public offerings (NYSE: SNAP) as a result of her leadership during her tenure. She has operated as an executive & financial leader through her roles as CEO and SVP of sales, marketing and product - aiding companies at from Zero to One through growth stage trajectories. Kelly is responsible for helping startups launch, market and grow both in the US and overseas. She has built merchants and retailer relationships across 20,000 points of sale and over 1,000 e-commerce sites in the top 40 global markets - architecting large channel sales partnerships with Apple, Disney, Amazon and more. As a product leader, she has introduced over 130 digital products, software, apps and consumer electronics to market, scaling from PMF to IPO. Kelly has worked across a variety of emerging technology sectors including mobile VR / AR, AI & ML, robotics, gaming and voice-enabled applications. She has also established B2B software partnerships for STEM education and developer networks. Kelly demonstrates her understanding of how to leverage multimedia platforms and social buzz to garner global attention and go-to-market virality through her launch of the Parrot AR.Drone on Youtube, Star Wars BB-8 Droid on Snapchat, and Spectacles Snapbot campaign on Twitter. Most recently Kelly founded, built and scaled an end-to-end ecom, payments & data software suite for social selling, servicing more than 500 SMB merchants to mid-market retailers and 35,000 consumer wallets with unique solutions like text-to-pay, universal carts & shopper identity profiles.