INTERVIEW: Sameer Patel, CEO and Board Member of Kahuna


09 August 2018
Gordana Davila
Founded in 2012, based in Redwood City, California, Kahuna is powered by big data and machine learning and is trusted by companies like Yelp, Yahoo!, GoPro, Dollar Shave Club, among many more companies, to provide a new level of authentic engagement between brands and their customers via web, email, mobile and social media channels.
Claiming over 144 million engaged users and over 4 billion messages sent, Kahuna has quickly taken the lead in becoming the platform of choice for meeting the needs of marketplaces, using state of the art machine-learning technology to drive extreme personalization, product and pricing optimization, trust, and engagement.
Sameer Patel joined Kahuna as CEO and board member in 2016. Before Kahuna, Patel served as General Manager at SAP / SuccessFactors overseeing the Collaboration and Hybris Commerce Community Software business. Prior to SAP, Patel had 15 years of leading enterprise technology teams in management consulting and the systems integrator business.
We caught up with the Kahuna' CEO and Board Member, Sameer Patel at the Global Online Marketplaces Miami 2018 Summit to talk about his company's take on the race to the transaction model, the innovative processes and methods Kahuna is implementing and more.
The above article was originally published here.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Interview with Erik Backer, Co-Founder and CEO of Portal.chat

Image
Erik Backer, Co-Founder, and CEO of Portal.chat 26 November 2018 Gordana Davila Recently we caught up with Erik Backer, Co-Founder, and CEO of  Portal.chat  at the 24th Property Portal Watch Conference in Madrid. The decade-old Netherlands-based Portal.chat offers online real estate sites an instant messaging app that also supports live video and audio chat.  “We have a plug and play solution that allows real estate classified sites and marketplaces, anywhere in the world, to offer a live chat solution between consumers and the listings owners or between the advertisers (the agents) and the real estate site. “In the past 18 months, we have noticed that there has been a significant increase in the use of chat and it can no longer be ignored as a communication channel,” stated Backer. He also added that the use of chat is generational with the younger generations using chat as their prime method of communication with so...
Read more

REVIEW - The Pirates of Penzance

Image
The Pirates of Penzance | The Production Company Written by  Gordana Andjelic-Davila    Saturday, 02 November 2013 07:29 Melbourne has been invaded by pirates. The Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta  The Pirates of Penzance , that is. From the moment the doors open and the seats of Hamer Hall begin to fill, colourfully dressed young men and fair maidens stroll through the isles, interacting with the public as well as each other, whilst a merry bunch of swashbuckling pirates congregates on stage, enticing the observers with what is to come, and that which does come, is great over the top, light and fluffy fun. Though there was little reference to the classic which debuted in 1879, this silly adaptation, mirroring the 1981 Broadway production is one fabulously orchestrated show. From the beautiful costumes, overly dramatic acting (reminiscent of South American soap operas), earth shaking vocals, amazing Orchestra Australia, whimsical set design, spot...
Read more

REVIEW - Stomp '13

Image
Written by Gordana Andjelic-Davila    Friday, 23 August 2013 08:07   After two decades of impressing audiences around the globe, the Brighton, UK and Manhattan-based dance troupe known as Stomp has come back to Australian shores. My first exposure to the troupe was in the US back in 1997, at the Orpheum Theatre, by which time New Yorkers had already enjoyed numerous performances over the years. For me it was all very new. I was impressed by its originality and awestruck from the first matchbox shake. If you have never heard of Stomp , imagine a sort of post apocalyptic junkyard, where its inhabitants or workers have rummaged through the scraps and salvaged such things as large plastic rubbish bins, metal paint buckets, shopping trolleys, rubber tubes, newspapers, etc. After which, these overall clad scruffy individuals perform a mind blowing percussion symphony which varies from Spanish Flamenco-like clapping to Brazilian Samba ...
Read more