Kabir is CEO at Amperity, and a technology entrepreneur and senior executive with experience at many stages of the lifecycle: start-up/bootstrap, venture funding, M&A, and IPO experience. He co-founded Amperity in January 2016 with the vision of using data and software to unleash the potential of marketers and analysts at the world’s most admired consumer brands. Kabir’s previous company, Appature, developed a relationship marketing platform that enables brands to deepen customer relationships through an integrated data infrastructure, multi-channel campaign toolset, and innovative analytics engine. In recognition of the company’s success, Kabir was named one of BusinessWeek’s “Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009” and was also named a 2011 Puget Sound Business Journal “40 Under 40" honoree. In 2012, he was awarded the U.S. SBA “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award.

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Derek is the CTO and co-founder of Amperity, where he is responsible for product, engineering, operations, and information security. He co-founded Amperity in January 2016 with the vision that access to accurate, consistent, and comprehensive customer data can transform consumer marketing at the world’s most loved brands. Derek was part of the founding team for Appature, a leading SaaS marketing automation platform for healthcare companies. Prior to Appature, Derek held engineering leadership positions at a variety of business and consumer facing startups, with a focus on large scale distributed systems and security.

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Amy brings more than two decades of financial and operational management experience to Amperity, having led finance and operations across the spectrum from venture-backed technology companies to a publicly-traded enterprise software company. Amy held multiple financial management roles at Onyx Software - an enterprise software company she joined when the company was generating $3 million in annual revenue with 35 employees. Onyx went public in 1999 and Amy served as its CFO during 2000 and 2001 when the company was generating $120 million in revenue with over 800 employees. In addition to Onyx, she has served as CFO for Basho Technologies, doxo, Gist (acquired by Blackberry), Tegic (an AOL subsidiary acquired by Nuance), and Wildseed (acquired by AOL).

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Chris comes to Amperity with over 25 years of experience delivering products and bringing large scale services to market at Microsoft. He most recently co-created and led Healthcare NExT, an initiative to accelerate healthcare innovation through artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Prior to that, Chris drove all product development efforts for OneDrive and SharePoint. In previous roles he led the development of Windows, Internet Explorer, and Outlook.com.

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Rajeev is currently the CEO of Accolade, the market leading on demand healthcare concierge for employers, health plans, and health systems. Rajeev joined the company as a board member, investor, and CEO in November, 2015. Today, Accolade has 700 employees focused on driving better outcomes and increased satisfaction for healthcare consumers while delivering incredible savings for payers.

Prior to that, Rajeev co-founded Concur (NASDAQ: CNQR), the global leader in travel and expense management, in 1993 two years after graduating from college. His initial role in the company was in product management and his early years were focused on the product management and development organizations. In the twenty years that followed, he worked in nearly every role in the business – culminating in his final role as president, chief operating officer, and board director for the last nine years of his tenure.

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Kelly led the Sales team at Tableau, a Seattle-based data visualization company, which encompassed all Worldwide Sales and Field Operations, including Direct Sales, Channel Sales, Pre-Sales, Professional Services, Training, Customer Success, Technical Support, and Sales Operations.

Kelly started as the first salesperson in February 2005, one month before the launch of Tableau version 1.0. She helped build and grow Tableau from a small start-up to a multi-billion dollar public company as a member of the core executive team.

This is the first time Kelly has joined an outside board of directors since she retired from Tableau last year.

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Matt invests in a broad range of software-driven companies with a focus on companies in the Cloud, Machine Learning and Intelligent Apps space. His words of advice to would-be entrepreneurs: “Truly understand the customer and their needs first and work your way back to a technology-differentiated solution to their needs from there.” Before joining Madrona in 2000, Matt was vice president of business process for the Genuine Parts Company (NYSE:GPC). He also was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, concentrating on strategy and marketing in technology-driven sectors and prior to that worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse.

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