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.
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