Overview

Gender

male

Kurt is an entrepreneurial leader with 20+ years of experience/expertise specializing in growth strategies and commercial initiatives to activate and accelerate value creation for growth/new ventures and complex/underperforming businesses.

He helped to transform the spatial data industry with technology, data, and new business lines, creating more than $8 billion in value for investors. As an executive, he has a successful track record of effectively using a systematic approach to innovation and transformation to scale revenues, customer value, internal processes, marketing, technology creation, intellectual property, and operations.

Kurt has a broad repertoire of strategies & techniques (e.g. agile marketing, content creation, data analysis, pattern recognition, Lean StartUp, deliberate innovation, etc.), and a mix of strategic, technical, and business operational skills. He is recognized for his proven ability to develop growth-stage initiatives into enterprise-scale, thriving business enterprises and scale growing organizations through the power of B2B storytelling. He uses his expertise in organizational design, building and growing diverse & geo-dispersed functions & teams from the ground-up to accelerate growth.

His marketing experience in B2B, B2C, SaaS, co-marketing, large cause-based organizations, and high-growth environments has driven billions of prospect and customer touchpoints with companies such as NAVTEQ, Vitrue, Apple, Mapquest, the White House, Garmin, CBS Interactive, BenQ, Harmonix, Samsung Mobile, American Express, etc., as well as numerous challenger brands.

Fundamentally, Kurt just wants to help people and create environments where people can flourish as themselves. This continues outside of work too, as he stewards a portion of his evenings and weekends to mentor and coach individuals and groups.