Ken Pilot has over 30 years of retail, C-level operating experience at Gap, J.Crew, Ralph Lauren, American Eagle and ABC Carpet & Home. Ken served as a board member to the Lenox Corp (leader in the table top space), Alternative Apparel and Dormify. Ken actively invests in technology that supports retail and brand growth focusing on early stage solutions that address online, stores, marketing and operations. He takes on an active role with each investment supporting the founder/team as an operating partner. Ken’s retail operating experience combined with his knowledge of technology provide strong guidance at the board level as well as with companies that he advises. Ken advises retail brands providing a variety of services that support scaling businesses. Ken is currently working with the following platforms: PredictSpring (modern, global POS), Lily,AI (automating the product attribution process with customer speak terms versus industry lingo), FindMine (leveraging generative AI to complete the look and improve email marketing campaigns), Ometria (the leading CDxP platform to organize all customer data and capable of email, sms and social media outreach), ROKT (helping brands monetize their ecommerce traffic), Raspberry.ai (improving the speed and output of design for designers), FlexFactor (approving 30% of online credit card declines, real time),Wunderkind (the largest platform capable of identifying anonymous site traffic and then creating personalized email marketing based on last touch attribution). Firework (enabling livestream shoppable video within an e-commerce site), Fabric(Headless e-commerce solution),Radar (RFID that provides a continual inventory update without wanting product), CrosStar Network Solutions (Provides data/telecom services at best pricing leveraging its network of over 200 international providers).Ken serves as an advisor to The Lead, ReThink Retail, Sarona Partners, Alpaca VC and Provenance Digital and Fernbrook Capital. Ken has advised Teak + Table, Harbour Outdoor, Lenox, Calvin Klein, Kassatex, Burrow and Alternative Apparel. Ken is also an investor/advisor to Burrow, Koio he holds a real estate associates license with KSR.