Kate Ravanis Email and Phone Number

Kate Ravanis is COO and co-founder of VIA. As a co-founder, Kate established VIA’s client service program in 2016 to help make the company’s technologies more accessible and understandable to a broader group of individuals, beyond artificial intelligence specialists and mathematicians. Since then, she has been certified by FERC as an expert in the field of artificial intelligence. Her primary focus has been on the use of machine learning to solve high impact problems in the energy sector such as predictive maintenance for high priority equipment. Kate’s previous experience with smart grid technology is the reason why VIA is providing solutions to the energy generation, transmission, and distribution space. In addition, as part of her role as COO, Kate personally oversees all aspects of project delivery and talent management. Before VIA, Kate was with Grail Research, where she was a director personally overseeing 10 to 20 clients per year across financial services, consumer brands, and online retail sectors. Kate joined Grail Research in its first year of operation and helped build the firm’s marketing, finance, and account management functions. Kate eventually co-lead the consumer brands practice with clients across the US, UK, and South Africa. She was responsible for business development, account planning, and project delivery for some of their most important accounts. Kate brought in several new clients each year and grew select accounts to multi-year, million-dollar per year contracts. Prior to joining Grail Research, Kate worked with one of the world’s leading public relations firms, Weber Shandwick. Kate graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern University with a degree in organizational communication.