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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Brian Goldfarb is the Chief Marketing Officer at Amperity. Prior to Amperity, Brian was the CMO and SVP of Business Development at Chef Software, which sold to Progress in October 2020. Previously, Brian was the CMO at Splunk from 2016 to 2019, leading that business through a major digital marketing transformation. Brian has also served as SVP, Platform at Salesforce; Head of Marketing, Cloud Platform at Google, launching Google’s multi-billion dollar cloud service provider; and various product marketing and product management roles at Microsoft. Brian holds an A.B. from Duke University in Computer Science and Economics.

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Michael has more than 25 years of sales, marketing and operations experience, with 15 years focused on Digital Marketing SaaS Technology. He was most recently the COO of Cheetah Digital, where his responsibilities included driving growth, client retention and services engagement across the global business. Prior to that, Michael was the CEO at Simply Measured, a Seattle based Social Analytics company, and has also held executive level sales positions at Monetate, Salesforce/ExactTarget, and Webtrends.

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Christina Miller serves as Amperity’s General Counsel, where she advises the company on a wide range of legal issues with a focus on privacy, commercial, and general corporate matters. Prior to Amperity, she was Associate General Counsel at Affirm, a San Francisco-based consumer finance start-up, and also worked as Vice President & Corporate Counsel at Prudential Private Capital in both San Francisco and Chicago. Christina began her career in private practice as an associate at the law firms of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago and Allen & Overy in London. She received her law degree from Northwestern University and a Masters degree from the London School of Economics. Christina is an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan and enjoys biking and trying to keep up with her two toddlers.

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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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Mary Miller leads People & Business Operations where she focuses on the intersection of business strategy, company culture, and our people. She is passionate about unlocking potential in individuals and teams. Before Amperity, Mary designed and scaled some of Amazon's first global executive and leadership development programs. Prior to that, she worked in the non-profit sector and remains involved in social good through the MovingWorlds Institute. Mary is also a certified Executive Leadership Coach via Georgetown University.

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Barry has been growing and leading companies for the last 25 years with more than half of that time spent living and building businesses in Europe and Asia. He spent nearly 20 years at Concur Technologies in a variety of roles across engineering, sales & marketing, product & strategy and, eventually, as President of the company. Post acquisition of Concur by SAP, he was President of global procurement leader Ariba as well as President of Chicago based contingent labor platform FieldGlass. Barry then moved to FinTech leader Stripe to help build the distribution engine as Chief Revenue Officer. He has a deep passion for customer engagement informed by intelligent data.

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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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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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Ciara is a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter, producer, model, actress, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Over her nearly twenty-year career, she has sold more than 23 million records and 22 million singles worldwide. Ciara is founder and CEO of Beauty Marks Entertainment (BME), a production company with a business model built on fully supporting the artist. She is also co-founder of The House of LR&C, a fashion brand and pending B-corp focused on sustainability and impact. These businesses are vehicles for Ciara to bring together her deep passions for music, film, fashion, technology, and community engagement. As part of her ongoing philanthropic work, Ciara sits on the board of the Why Not You Foundation, a charity dedicated to fighting poverty through education, empowering youth to lead with a ‘why not you’ attitude.

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Kevin Johnson is president and chief operating officer for Starbucks Corporation, leading the company’s global operating businesses across the Americas, EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa), and China/Asia Pacific, as well as Starbucks supply chain, information technology, and mobile and digital platforms across more than 21,000 stores worldwide.

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