Kenneth Chestnut

Summary

Kenneth Chestnut leads Intuit's global partner ecosystem and is responsible for growing business with technology and service partners. He was Global Head of Technology GTM Partners at Stripe where he was responsible for building the go to market technology and solutions partner business from the ground up. Prior to Stripe, Ken was Global Segment Lead at Amazon Web Services where he and his team defined and drove partner strategy across 14+ horizontal technology domains. Previously, Ken was responsible for building and scaling both the analytics and machine learning AWS partner ecosystems across hundreds of partners. Prior to joining AWS, Kenneth defined and launched new SaaS and Cloud initiatives at Infor. As Vice President of Product Marketing at MarkLogic, he repositioned the company and its product to significantly increase market traction. He has held management and executive positions at several start-ups including Interlace Systems, a business intelligence and operational planning solution acquired by Oracle. Kenneth holds a Bachelor of Science from MIT, a Master of Science from Wayne State University, and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. My professional WHY: 1/ simplifying the complex; 2/ addressing bottlenecks and increasing throughput; 3/ making the hard to understand more easily understood; 4/ helping team members find their WHY. Specialties: market strategy, business development, product vision, new category definition, product marketing, product management, product definition, compelling company and product positioning, thought leadership content, launching and growing new products, prospect/analyst/media briefings