Rob Gonda Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Broadhaven portfolio company dedicated to monetizing data by creating and brokering information products that driveenterprise value and net-new revenue. Led technology strategy and digital transformation initiatives for enterpriseclients across Real Estate, Telecom, and Financial Services sectors.- Drove enterprise value through Data and AI innovation, securing partnerships with Two Sigma and Point72- Expanded operations internationally, capturing UAE market leaders including EMAAR and Du Telecom- Developed enterprise data monetization strategies generating over $500M in net-new revenue- Managed globally distributed teams across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and India.- Built scalable enterprise consumer intelligence platform driving enterprise value for retail, financial services, insurance, and healthcare clients.

Mountain View , California , Us

Lecture courses in 10x exponential strategy; corporate innovation; future of consumers, goods, retail; and exponential organizations and future of work.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

The Global Innovation Institute is the world’s leading certification, accreditation, and membership association in the field of innovation.

Dover, Delaware, Us

OpenExO, Inc. is a Professional Services community focused on innovation and digital transformation, based on theExO Model shared in the book Exponential Organizations. Recruited by founder to lead growth, corporatedevelopment, special projects, and M&A.- Negotiated and acquired ExoWorks, a decentralized consulting business based on ExO Models.- Negotiated and acquired Tokenly, a Digital MicroVerse As a Service, Wordpress for the new web, Digital and traditional goods marketplace with crypto, NFT and dollar support, Universal user identity system with profile, wallet and token management.- Negotiated and acquired AYF, a Web3 platform for community managementGenius Group and OpenExO Signed Merger Agreement, Accelerating Plans to Build Global AI Education Group.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Served on the board of Maverick Digital, a Salesforce specialized boutique consultancy leading to a successful exit by selling to S4 Capital in December 2021.

St. Petersburg, Florida, Us

Brought in to lead the company’s digital transformation. Challenged with modernizing the existing core foundation, driving business growth, and transforming the company’s business model and capabilities simultaneously.- Led digital-first transformation of core business model and operations- Within the first six months defined strategy, organizational design and structure, and attracted newleadership talent, brought 6 new VPs on board.- Organization redesign, prioritization, talent assessment, zero-based budgeting, and renegotiated supplier contracts on target to deliver 5% gross-margin improvement.- Drove new digital business models across advertising and attribution, expected to drive 10% incremental revenue- Removed organizational constraints blocking speed and execution, doubled development capacity,established outsourced and offshore model, defined and published SLAs, created a labs environment, built a product organization, established an enterprise PMO, and explored new strategic partnerships.- Instituted project-level P&Ls to drive accountability and commercial focus

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Led the digital transformation of one of the most iconic brands in history resulting in tripling the company’s market capitalization. Directly responsible for a corporate budget of $80 million a year and leading a $500 million digital acceleration initiative, leading strategy and execution of digital technology ranging from customer-facing products, technology platforms, and data and analytics.- Served as pioneer and catalyst in the move from mass marketing to mass personalization of our 70 million customers per day, brought to life in a mobile-first world through apps, websites, email, kiosks, and social.- IT Products for the consumer delivered 8 consecutive quarters of positive global sales and 2 consecutive quarters of positive global guest counts.- Launched the first mobile app and drove customer acquisition from a database of zero to over 24M within first 12 months.- Brought Adobe into the organization and built all marketing technology and direct-to-consumer capabilities for the first time in the organization, including email and text message outreach, loyalty programs, and digital media integration- Directed a significant transformation of this world-class brand, defining vision and digital strategy, byestablishing direct-to-consumer communications, adding e-commerce capabilities, and digitizing the store with kiosks and menu boards. - Redefined organization to own digital product management, effective program management, technology delivery excellence, and overall increased product quality resulting in successes in improved time to market and reduced cost of ownership.- Drove organizational changes in human resources, organizational roles, reporting structures, financial &funding models, strategic planning, sequencing & road-mapping, cross-functional governance models, and PMO- Key executive sponsored and drove cloud adoption

Boston, Ma, Us

Sapient, a globally renowned Digital Transformation Agency, purchased Rob’s iChameleon Group as a foundation to build their digital capabilities, where he quickly developed the Mobile, Social, Digital Strategy, Innovation, R&D practices. Served as strategic advisor for top Fortune accounts including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Kellogg’s, Target, Chrysler, NBC, Samsung, NASCAR, Miami Heat, Visit Florida, Tesco, Marks and Spencer, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Ann Taylor. Member of the Global Technology Leadership Team, Strategy Leadership Team, and Experience Innovation Leadership Team. Owned and ran the innovation and foresight practice, marketing technology, and R&D labs.♣ Launched one of Coca-Cola’s most successful global marketing campaigns to-date, for FIFA 2010 World Cup. Coca-Cola supported players’ goal celebrations and launched a global sweepstake to collect fan celebrations. The campaign launched in web, mobile, social media, YouTube, messenger games, collecting millions of fan-generated videos. ♣ Hand-selected to lead emerging technology and marketing strategies for the business development team with a $100M book of business.♣ Drove strategic alliances with Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft.♣ Successfully developed strategies and visions for emerging technologies such as mobile, social, IoT, touch interfaces, face recognition, data mining, contextual computing, business intelligence, predictive analytics.♣ Developed strategy whitepapers, contributed to media publications (DigiDay, AdWeek, and AdAge), and spoke to a dozen conferences per year (SXSW, Omma, Cannes Lions, DigiDay, 4A’s CreateTech, 4A’s Transformation, Future of Advertising, AdFed, AAF). Won dozens of awards including Cannes Lions, SXSW, Addy, Sofi, Belding, W3, Ads of the World.

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Co-founded boutique digital agency in Florida that quickly became known for its innovative use of cutting-edge technology, unprecedented creativity, continuously disrupting the industry, resulting in its rapid international expansion and collecting reputable awards for fortune clients. After four successful years, company got acquired by Sapient and became their digital arm.- Grew the company 300% year-over-year for four years.- Expanded operations and secured status of one of the market’s top boutique digital agencies.- Achieved a multinational presence and obtained global clients including Coca Cola, Diageo, Guinness, NBC, Taco Bell, Motorola, and Kyocera.- Won multiple international awards for cutting edge campaigns and technology such as A.I. bots, facialrecognition, and online massive multiplayer games including D&AD, Cannes Lions, ADDYs, and CLIOs.

Led all web and eCommerce for Web United, part of Landmark Communications' Continental Broadband family of commercial internet data providers, once ranked fourth on the Business Journal's list of fastest-growing technology companies.

Early days digital entrepreneur – innovated in digital before it was called digital. Co-Founded and built the first BBS in Venezuela, first ISP, first VoIP company. Started building Websites in 1994 when there were less than 200 in the entire world. Sold Eldish to IFX Networks and Comvoz to NetUno International.

Master, Business Administration

B.S., Computer Science And Engineering

Ingeniería De Computación