Erik Kellener
Education
California State University, Northridge
BS & MS, Computer Science -Work Experience
Evolution
Current
Evolution
CxO Consulting Inc
Current
CxO Consulting Inc
UCLA
Current
UCLA
Contender.com
2009-03-01 - 2016-12-01
Contender.com
WongDoody
2009-04-01 - 2012-04-01
WongDoody
Mitra IT
2003-01-01 - 2010-01-01
Mitra IT
Evite
2007-04-01 - 2008-12-01
Evite
LuxuryLink
2003-04-01 - 2007-02-01
LuxuryLink
CenturyLink
2000-11-01 - 2003-01-01
CenturyLink
Dreamworks / Pop.com
2000-01-01 - 2000-10-01
Dreamworks / Pop.com
Skills
Summary
Leadership Coach, Strategic Advisor, and Consulting CTO bringing 20+ years of operating experience as a technology executive and thought leader for both emerging and established brands in the U.S. and overseas. Working with both pre-and post- revenue generating businesses, driving deep change at the individual, team and organizational levels. Final results replace expensive missteps in scaling businesses with proven strategies and tactics for growth and profitability. Proud Partner at Evolution - "Scale without losing your soul" https://www.evolution.team/erik-kellener Operating successes include: • Building and selling a GIS consulting business for $2.5M • Packaging and selling an entertainment media platform for $30M • Increasing top-line revenues by 33% when leading a re-launch effort • Re-orienting team focus and operations to increase platform stability, increasing deployment cycles by 2x, and reducing rollbacks by 50% • Optimizing a managed-service environment to reduce costs by 60% in 4 months • Building a technology team of 25 from scratch in 90 days to support an emerging business line. A strong practitioner of lean & iterative development, leadership development, team health strategies, risk-assessment & mitigation, due diligence, capacity planning, KPI-driven operations, and revenue/expense forecast modeling.
