Vertex Search

Founder

TenX Recruiting

Talent Partner

Massive

Talent Advisor

KENEKT GROUP, LLC.

At KENEKT Group, recruitment is in our blood! Our approach is far from generic – we believe in using an assertive and highly effective strategy that's customized to each client's unique needs.

Our focus isn't just on immediate profits. We're dedicated to building and nurturing relationships with clients and candidates alike, treating every interaction with the same level of care. With this approach, we're confident that we'll always have the right candidate within reach.

We're not just experts in engineering recruitment – we've successfully filled hundreds of key positions in marketing, sales, and manufacturing too! But we know that every client is different, which is why we work closely with them to design a custom candidate-screening process that meets their specific requirements.

Unlike other recruiters, we don't measure success by the number of resumes we can send for a particular role. Instead, we take pride in screening hard to ensure that we send only a few highly qualified candidates who possess both the soft and hard skills our clients desire. With this approach, our clients can rest easy knowing that one of the candidates we send their way is sure to be their next great hire.

When it comes to pricing, we're incredibly flexible, ensuring that our clients get the recruitment services they need at a price that works for them. If you're looking for a recruitment partner that truly cares about your success, then look no further than KENEKT Group!

Driftr

Driftr is THE social media company dedicated to the communication and sharing of all travel. We are based on the traveler and the travelers point of view. Real person to person communication allows for real life experience and recommendations. This allows for real life experiences shared directly from the mouths and fingertips of the person experiencing them.

Advisor

Technical Connections Inc.

Advising the Technical Connections recruiting team, helping to generate more revenue in order to take the team to the next level.

Kwalified LLC

Created ‘Kwalified’, a brand new concept and business model that greatly expands job seekers’ prospects in a competitive job market. Performed market research, designed, built and launched a responsive and easy to use MVP and tested with a group of early adopters (www.kwalified.com).

Co-Founder/Chief Marketing Officer

Betagig

Advised the company on new platform implementations, and helped move through a possible pivot. Unfortunately the company was deemed unscalable and the investors pulled out. Recruiting is a "hustle" business. It always has been and always will be. That said, I'd like to give a shoutout to Nicole Klein, Founder of Betagig. Had Nicole not been swayed by a particular incubator in the early stages, and had she released her initial Betagig platform, there is no doubt in my mind that the company would have ultimately been a multi-million dollar organization. Nicole is now a Senior Technical Product Manager at AWS in Seattle, WA. She is truly the definition of a rockstar.

Neohire South

Worked primarily with startups in the bay area looking to scale their companies and teams. The majority of my focus was centered around working with tech leaders looking to hire engineering talent. I was very instrumental in advising these clients on things from fundraising and pitch decks to best recruiting practices.

Senior Technical Talent Agent

Vertex Search and Consulting

By the age of 16 I was managing large accounts in the video game industry- EA, Activision, Nintendo, Disney, etc. By 18, I moved to SoCal to throw my recruiting career into full gear.

Senior Recruiting Specialist

I’ve been immersed in the recruitment world since I was 16, starting by placing executives at top gaming companies while still in high school. With a deep-rooted legacy in staffing from my entrepreneurial parents, I’ve transformed traditional recruitment into a fully customizable process, tailoring each approach to fit the unique needs of my clients.

Since 2012, I’ve been the trusted recruiter for tech startups and Fortune 500 companies, building high-performing teams in engineering, product, sales, marketing, and hardware roles at all levels. My efforts have helped propel companies like Flo Technologies and BisonTrails to successful exits, highlighting the impact of my talent sourcing on their achievements.

As a champion of gender diversity, I’ve revolutionized how diversity is integrated into recruitment, believing that a mosaic of perspectives is crucial for business success. I dive deep into understanding each company’s unique culture, ensuring that every candidate I place is not just a fit, but a key contributor to the team’s success.

What sets me apart is my approach to crafting narratives where each placement is integral to a company’s growth. I go beyond just matching resumes to job descriptions, maintaining an unwavering commitment to honesty and integrity in every partnership.

If you’re seeking a recruitment strategy that mirrors your company’s unique DNA, I offer a partnership that blends innovation with a daring edge. Together, we can redefine talent acquisition, building diverse and skilled teams that become the heartbeat of your company's success story.



In a nutshell, if you're looking for a recruitment strategy that’s as unique as your company's DNA, and a partner who brings a little edge to the table, let's connect. Together, we can redefine the art of talent acquisition, creating teams that aren’t just diverse and skilled, but are the heartbeat of your company's success story.

Ben Hanley

Vendormint

Vendormint™ helps suppliers navigate financial complexities, recover lost revenue, ensure compliance, and optimize operations with major Brick-and-Mortar retailers like Walmart, Kroger, Target, and more. Our expertise spans deduction recovery, supply chain optimization, compliance management, and document organization, providing suppliers with data-driven insights and hands-on support.
Our Core Services:

• Recover Invalid Deductions – We handle the entire dispute process, ensuring suppliers recover revenue lost to unjustified deductions.
• Ensure Retail Compliance – We help suppliers meet OTIF, SQEP, OTFR, ORAD, and other retailer compliance standards to prevent chargebacks and penalties.
• Optimize Operations – We improve supply chain processes, reduce inefficiencies, and implement data-backed SOPs for better performance.
• Manage & Organize Key Documents – We collect, store, and submit PODs, BOLs, invoices, and compliance records, ensuring accuracy in financial and compliance matters.

With a 97% client retention rate and a team with over 60 years of experience across 50+ major retailers, Vendormint™ simplifies supplier operations while maximizing financial performance.

📌 Learn more at www.vendormint.com

Chief Technology Officer

Singularity University

Lecture courses in 10x exponential strategy; corporate innovation; future of consumers, goods, retail; and exponential organizations and future of work.

Faculty / Guest Lecturer

GInI - Global Innovation Institute

The Global Innovation Institute is the world’s leading certification, accreditation, and membership association in the field of innovation.

Board Member

Broadhaven portfolio company dedicated to monetizing data by creating and brokering information products that drive
enterprise value and net-new revenue. Led technology strategy and digital transformation initiatives for enterprise
clients across Real Estate, Telecom, and Financial Services sectors.
- Drove enterprise value through Data and AI innovation, securing partnerships with Two Sigma and Point72
- Expanded operations internationally, capturing UAE market leaders including EMAAR and Du Telecom
- Developed enterprise data monetization strategies generating over $500M in net-new revenue
- Managed globally distributed teams across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and India.
- Built scalable enterprise consumer intelligence platform driving enterprise value for retail, financial services, insurance, and healthcare clients.

Managing Partner

OpenExO

OpenExO, Inc. is a Professional Services community focused on innovation and digital transformation, based on the
ExO Model shared in the book Exponential Organizations. Recruited by founder to lead growth, corporate
development, special projects, and M&A.

- Negotiated and acquired ExoWorks, a decentralized consulting business based on ExO Models.
- Negotiated and acquired Tokenly, a Digital MicroVerse As a Service, Wordpress for the new web, Digital and traditional goods marketplace with crypto, NFT and dollar support, Universal user identity system with profile, wallet and token management.
- Negotiated and acquired AYF, a Web3 platform for community management

Genius Group and OpenExO Signed Merger Agreement, Accelerating Plans to Build Global AI Education Group.

Executive Vice President

Maverick Digital

Served on the board of Maverick Digital, a Salesforce specialized boutique consultancy leading to a successful exit by selling to S4 Capital in December 2021.

Catalina USA

Brought in to lead the company’s digital transformation. Challenged with modernizing the existing core foundation, driving business growth, and transforming the company’s business model and capabilities simultaneously.

- Led digital-first transformation of core business model and operations
- Within the first six months defined strategy, organizational design and structure, and attracted new
leadership talent, brought 6 new VPs on board.
- Organization redesign, prioritization, talent assessment, zero-based budgeting, and renegotiated supplier contracts on target to deliver 5% gross-margin improvement.
- Drove new digital business models across advertising and attribution, expected to drive 10% incremental revenue
- Removed organizational constraints blocking speed and execution, doubled development capacity,
established outsourced and offshore model, defined and published SLAs, created a labs environment, built a product organization, established an enterprise PMO, and explored new strategic partnerships.
- Instituted project-level P&Ls to drive accountability and commercial focus

EVP - Chief Technology Officer

McDonald's Corporation

Led the digital transformation of one of the most iconic brands in history resulting in tripling the company’s market capitalization. Directly responsible for a corporate budget of $80 million a year and leading a $500 million digital acceleration initiative, leading strategy and execution of digital technology ranging from customer-facing products, technology platforms, and data and analytics.

- Served as pioneer and catalyst in the move from mass marketing to mass personalization of our 70 million customers per day, brought to life in a mobile-first world through apps, websites, email, kiosks, and social.
- IT Products for the consumer delivered 8 consecutive quarters of positive global sales and 2 consecutive quarters of positive global guest counts.
- Launched the first mobile app and drove customer acquisition from a database of zero to over 24M within first 12 months.
- Brought Adobe into the organization and built all marketing technology and direct-to-consumer capabilities for the first time in the organization, including email and text message outreach, loyalty programs, and digital media integration
- Directed a significant transformation of this world-class brand, defining vision and digital strategy, by
establishing direct-to-consumer communications, adding e-commerce capabilities, and digitizing the store with kiosks and menu boards. 
- Redefined organization to own digital product management, effective program management, technology delivery excellence, and overall increased product quality resulting in successes in improved time to market and reduced cost of ownership.
- Drove organizational changes in human resources, organizational roles, reporting structures, financial &
funding models, strategic planning, sequencing & road-mapping, cross-functional governance models, and PMO
- Key executive sponsored and drove cloud adoption

Vice President - Global Data & Digital

SapientNitro

Sapient, a globally renowned Digital Transformation Agency, purchased Rob’s iChameleon Group as a foundation to build their digital capabilities, where he quickly developed the Mobile, Social, Digital Strategy, Innovation, R&D practices.  Served as strategic advisor for top Fortune accounts including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Target, Chrysler, NBC, Samsung, NASCAR, Miami Heat, Visit Florida, Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Ann Taylor.  Member of the Global Technology Leadership Team, Strategy Leadership Team, and Experience Innovation Leadership Team.   Owned and ran the innovation and foresight practice, marketing technology, and R&D labs.

♣	Launched one of Coca-Cola’s most successful global marketing campaigns to-date, for FIFA 2010 World Cup. Coca-Cola supported players’ goal celebrations and launched a global sweepstake to collect fan celebrations. The campaign launched in web, mobile, social media, YouTube, messenger games, collecting millions of fan-generated videos. 
♣	Hand-selected to lead emerging technology and marketing strategies for the business development team with a $100M book of business.
♣	Drove strategic alliances with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft.
♣	Successfully developed strategies and visions for emerging technologies such as mobile, social, IoT, touch interfaces, face recognition, data mining, contextual computing, business intelligence, predictive analytics.
♣	Developed strategy whitepapers, contributed to media publications (DigiDay, AdWeek, and AdAge), and spoke to a dozen conferences per year (SXSW, Omma, Cannes Lions, DigiDay, 4A’s CreateTech, 4A’s Transformation, Future of Advertising, AdFed, AAF).  
Won dozens of awards including Cannes Lions, SXSW, Addy, Sofi, Belding, W3, Ads of the World.

Global Head of Emerging Technology & Innovation

iChameleon Group

Co-founded boutique digital agency in Florida that quickly became known for its innovative use of cutting-edge technology, unprecedented creativity, continuously disrupting the industry, resulting in its rapid international expansion and collecting reputable awards for fortune clients. After four successful years, company got acquired by Sapient and became their digital arm.

- Grew the company 300% year-over-year for four years.
- Expanded operations and secured status of one of the market’s top boutique digital agencies.
- Achieved a multinational presence and obtained global clients including Coca Cola, Diageo, Guinness, NBC, Taco Bell, Motorola, and Kyocera.
- Won multiple international awards for cutting edge campaigns and technology such as A.I. bots, facial
recognition, and online massive multiplayer games including D&AD, Cannes Lions, ADDYs, and CLIOs.

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Rob Gonda is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation and revenue growth for leading Retail and CPG organizations, as evidenced by his work with McDonald's, Catalina Marketing, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Target, Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Bed Bath & Beyond. He combines a deep understanding of consumer behavior with expertise in AI/ML, cloud computing, and data analytics to deliver personalized customer experiences and optimize business operations. As a multilingual leader fluent in five languages, Rob brings a global perspective to solving complex business challenges.

Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at VendorMint, Rob leads the technology vision and implementation of advanced analytics solutions that help retail suppliers recover revenue, enhance compliance, and streamline operations across the supply chain. His expertise in data monetization and AI-driven insights is transforming how suppliers manage deductions and compliance with major retailers, including Walmart, Target, and Kroger.

Rob has a proven track record of building and leading high-performing technology teams, implementing innovative solutions, and delivering measurable results. A recognized thought leader, he is a faculty member at Singularity University, a Forbes Technology Council contributor, and a frequent speaker at industry events.

Key achievements include:
• Architecting and leading McDonald's digital transformation, resulting in eight consecutive quarters of positive global sales growth and a tripling of the company's market capitalization. Key initiatives included the launch of the first mobile app, driving customer acquisition from zero to over 24 million within the first 12 months, and the implementation of enterprise-wide DevOps practices, reducing deployment time by 70%.
• Leading Catalina Marketing's digital-first transformation, delivering a 5% gross-margin improvement through modernization of the legacy technology stack to a cloud-native architecture.
• Serving as Global Head of Innovation at Sapient, advising top Fortune accounts, which included Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Target, Tesco, Marks and Spencer, and Bed Bath & Beyond.
• Developing and implementing data monetization strategies that generated over $500 million in new revenue through data, analytics, and AI initiatives, applicable to enhancing customer loyalty programs and personalizing marketing campaigns.

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