Sameer Patel

Sameer Patel joined Kahuna in August 2016 as CEO and board member to help modern marketers and CMOs transform how they engage and sell to digitally native consumers. Kahuna's customers include Dollar Shave Club, HotelTonight, GoPro, Yelp, and other leading consumer brands. Prior to Kahuna, Sameer was GM/SVP at SAP/SuccessFactors where he led the team that was responsible for making SAP a leading provider of customer and employee collaboration solutions, serving over 35 million subscribers. Before SAP, he consulted for leading brands such as The Wrigley Company, Grupo Televisa (Mexico), and BitTorrent on how to transform consumer engagement.

Sameer has keynoted over 50 industry and venture capital/private equity events on how modern organizations and their employees need to connect to their consumers in a digital-first world. Events include CeBIT (Germany), IBMConnect, The Social Business Forum (Milan), SIIA, KMWorld, Defrag, GigaOm Net:Work, and GigaOm Mobile Enterprise Summit, among others. He is also privileged to have been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Harvard Business Review. Sameer writes about organizational transformation on his blog, Pretzel Logic, and can be reached on Twitter @sameerpatel.