Ken Hirschkind Email & Phone Number

Senior executive, non-profit board member, and change agent with a passion for growing and scaling businesses, solving complex problems, building high-caliber teams, and utilizing change management. Successfully transformed global operations in dynamic and rapidly scaling environments to efficiently implement best-in-class practices while building significant shareholder value and a culture of trust and transparency. Deep experience in both multinational enterprises and driving start-up environments to scale.Selected Achievements:At Pega: Developed Pega’s client success strategy from concept to Executive team approval in five months; oversaw strategy execution, onboarding of two regional VPs, over 60 CSMs globally and an operations team in less than a year At Pega: Stabilized a small consulting operations team and grew it into a worldwide, world-class enterprise-class organization to support Pega’s growth from a $462M to over $1B in annual revenuesAt Endeca: Implemented Xactly Incent compensation system to automate the administration of nearly $20M in annual compensation calculations and incentive statements resulting in an estimated 3% savings in compensation payment errors and a 50% reduction in compensation processing timeAt Endeca: Migrated Endeca’s PSA system from QuickArrow to OpenAir, keeping continuity of processing for over $3M in monthly service billings and support of 150 active system users Selected Skills:- Strategic Planning & Implementation- Operational Improvement- Change Management - Business Transformation- Financial Forecasting and Analysis- P&L Management- Client Relationship Building - Consensus Building- International team leadership- M&A Due Diligence and Integrations- Incentive Compensation Design

Listed skills include Professional Services, Strategy, Start Ups, Management, and 46 others.

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  New York Institute Of Technology-Old Westbury

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