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KLP Summit: Speaker Bios

5/16/2019

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Ryan Williams 

J. Ryan Williams is a San Francisco-based executive coach trusted by CEOs, US Navy SEALs and almost everyone in between. 

As a sales leader, Ryan has seen multiple companies from $0-$100M+ from the inside.  His work at InVision App launched the enterprise sales team that has landed over 90% of the Fortune 500 logos.  As an early employee at AdRoll, Ryan built a $58M mid-market sales team in under 22 months and created a sales training program for 350 sales reps. Later as VP of Sales at a Y Combinator-backed data startup, he grew bookings from $4M to $12M and supported a $15M Series B fundraise from top investors. 

As a keynote speaker, Ryan’s talks have taken him to 13 countries to mentor at 16 startup accelerators where he has coached founders backed by Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Techstars and Andreessen Horowitz.  His workshops have been hosted at top universities such as University of Chicago, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Singapore Management University as well as corporate institutions such as Adobe, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Lyft, Salesforce, and Boston Consulting Group. 
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Ciara Peter

Ciara is best known for bringing consumer grade experiences to enterprise products at scale.

As VP of Product at Gainsight, she leads vision and strategy for Gainsight PX, the Product Experience platform focused on delivering insights, enabling data driven in-app customer engagement, and instantly evaluating ROI of product investments.
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Prior to Gainsight, Ciara held Product & Design leadership positions at InVision, Box, BetterWorks, and Salesforce. She lives in downtown San Francisco with her rescue cat, Wesley.
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Emilie Davis

Emilie Davis has a passion for building and scaling customer facing teams and processes from the ground up, having joined early stage startups as the first CS member three times over. She co-organised the Customer Success meetup in San Francisco and geeks out on all things data and customer growth. Outside of that, you’ll find her running, cycling or making awful puns. ​
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Cath Carlsen

10+ years’ global experience across B2B and B2C marketing and revenue operations, project management, field, experiential and direct marketing, event management and sponsorship.

My expertise is developing, scaling and maintaining marketing infrastructure and alignment across all revenue departments. I’m a solution oriented, people focussed leader. I sprinkle creativity, a can-do attitude and sense of humour across everything I touch.

Ex-Director of Marketing Ops at Vend and currently running Marketing Ops at Powered by Flossie; customer frontend software for the hair and beauty industry that acts as a universal booking layer for legacy systems, creating an intuitive and customisable interface. 
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Philip Fierlinger

Philip Fierlinger is co-founder of Xero, where he was Head of Design for nearly 10 years. He’s an investor and advisor to a variety of startups including Milanote, Deputy, Storypark and Atomic. Philip’s career started in Silicon Valley in 1992, designing smart phones at General Magic. For ten years he ran a digital design agency in San Francisco doing groundbreaking work for clients like Apple, Beastie Boys, Disney, Dreamworks, Palm and Playstation. 
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Kiwi Landing Pad Overview

3/21/2018

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Letter from the Chairman – Looking at 2018

2/27/2018

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Writing this introduction has caused me to reflect on my own personal journey in the world of entrepreneurship. 10 years ago, I started by foray into the world of tech entrepreneurship co-founding Sonar6 which we successfully sold to a US publicly listed company four years later. The journey of the entrepreneur is hard – demanding, frustrating, stressful but incredibly addictive.

We started the Kiwi Landing Pad (KLP) as a way of paying it forward, our vision has been largely unchanged – to have a positive impact on the New Zealand technology and innovation community measured over 20 years – about the same amount of time it takes to build a meaningful startup ecosystem. As I write this, looking at how far we have come, I’m incredibly proud to welcome us all, stakeholders included into our 8th year.

While the mission has changed, we make it our core objective to change as the market changes – a dynamic that any 21st century business should adopt, combining long term thinking with effective short term execution quickly adjusting to changing market demands. In plain english this means, we evolve as our community evolves, everyone grows up, that means changing tactics and offerings where appropriate.

While we were initially focused on Landing, we realised the small branding error we made with a shortened KLP actually became a blessing in disguise when we worked out that we needed to do more work at home to make our companies and kiwi entrepreneurs more ready to land in new markets anywhere – not just the US.

We’ve become less focused on physical space, and much more focused on building a meaningful useful community that is highly engaged and connected. What really matters for businesses is networks, information and access. We pride ourselves on building this out and working collaboratively with those sharing similar objectives.

Community is not a new concept, we all know that it ‘takes a village’ , and tribalism pre dates most of us, however community in terms of adding business value is incredibly powerful when curated effectively. Connecting the dots, and helping people learn from those who have ‘been there and done that’ but also to weather the storm of entrepreneurship which is honestly fundamentally lonely, but often the life blood of any communities and nations.

The Kiwi Landing Pad in 2018 is looking to evolve again, building on what’s working and increasing it’s impact and availability. Timing plays a big role in all decisions and much of our change and refinement is based on community readiness rather than completely new thinking / ideas.

We’re excited for your reading this and are keen to continue with us on this journey. 2018 brings many challenges we are eager to tackle these as overcoming them will provide even more benefits for our community at all levels continuing our philosophy of giving back.

Our strategy covers three areas – learn, launch, land and we’ve built up robust programs and networks in each of these areas some of which you have hopefully already experienced / gained value from. We’ve realised that if you pay close attention to the cycle of innovation and disruption, startups exist in the disruption phase, then they go into scale up, then over time they become a corporate, then they either become a household name by continually disrupting themselves or, they wither away and the cycle continues.
Tech, innovation and silicon valley are often sighted as the new frontier, but there is much to be gained from markets and experience further afield.  This is exciting because it gives us the opportunity to take our lessons, learnings, observations and data from the companies we work with and the alternate markets we operate in and connect to and bring this knowledge home and apply it to our SMEs which make up 95% of New Zealand.
Why? Because people are people and kiwis like helping kiwis, we can’t help ourselves and our 2 degrees of separation.

Digital disruption is affecting us all, irrespective of being NZ focussed or global. A large part of our opportunity lies in thinking bigger and leading. We not only have a duty to our organisations, but also to the next generation, to our society, and the only way we will help, and make everyone more successful is if we look forward with a longer horizon and think about being a 21st century business.

Its time for us to truly realise some of the benefit that New Zealand has being so far removed but so well connected. It means our competition is less, our markets more monopolistic. We do better when New Zealand does better so let that be our goal which we’ll reach through collaboration.

Finally and ending around the most key critical part Community and business – people, it’s important we spend more time as a community looking after each other. Managing and supporting each other around the stress and anxiety that is unavoidable in building something from nothing is an area we can all do better around. For all the need for us to be aggressive, driven and work our asses off to succeed let’s never forget to take time to share, ask for help or simply ask others we work with and love the simple questions – How are you going ? and Are you Ok ?
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Thanks for your support and looking forward to a outrageously successful 2018 for us all.
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Celebrating 6 years, with 6 events – Something For Everyone

9/10/2017

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“Building a business is hard, building a global business is even harder” - Sam Morgan
The idea for Kiwi Landing Pad began in the Kiwi entrepreneurial community in 2008 with a small group of entrepreneurs reflecting on their own journey and how to make it easier for the next wave of entrepreneurs to successfully follow – but faster and smarter.

The New Zealand government planned to invest more to support the technology and innovation ecosystem to make it easier for our companies to land and expand into the US market. During an “NZ Inc” meeting in 2010, John Holt & Sam Morgan put up their hands to collaborate and make the vision of a physical hub in Silicon Valley a reality three years ahead of plan – KLP was born.

In July 2011 we opened our doors in San Francisco for the first time, and with our first residents Xero, Vworkapp and Magritek.

On September 16th 2011, we held our very first Kiwi Landing Pad event. This year it’s now been 6 years, and we’ve had over 250 events with no signs of slowing down, right now we have one a week, at least.

This month we are celebrating the success of 6 years, with 6 events – as our community is global, 4,000 members in 36 countries around the world, we decided to have something for everyone whether thats a jam, webinar or our very first party in New Zealand. We encourage you to come along and meet our community (your peers) and learn more about where we are going in the future.

The Events:
Webinars
  • September 14th 10am NZT: Kiwi Founder Series – Elizabeth Iorns, CEO & Founder @ Science Exchange
  • September 21st 10am NZT: How To Actually Close Deals – Emmanuelle Skala, former VP of Sales & Customer Success @ Digital Ocean

Sales & Marketing Jams
  • September 26th: Christchurch Sales & Marketing Jam
  • September 27th: Wellington Sales & Marketing Jam
  • September 29th: Auckland Sales & Marketing Jam

Party/Drinks
  • September 29th @ 6:00pm: Kiwi Landing Pad 6 year celebration (Auckland, Nighttime)

Thanks for your support over the last 6 years, onwards to make technology the number #1 export in New Zealand and continue building great businesses, great products and helping Kiwis think big. 

Sian Simpson & John
@ Kiwi Landing Pad
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June: Scaling Up, Exiting, The Product Roadmap & Forming A Common Language on Company Stage

6/1/2017

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Our webinars for the next 3 weeks, we’ve again really tried to stretch ourselves and bring you people who are doing it or who have done it before to continue helping you build the capability in your teams and businesses, we think you’ll like what we have come up with.

Founder Spotlight:

Kiwi Founder Series – Jonny Hendriksen – CEO & Founder @ Shuttlerock, Formerly, CEO & Founder @ ValueClick.Jonny is probably one of New Zealand’s best kept secrets, along with him business partner Tim Williams were the first foreigners to list on the Japanese Stock Exchange in 2000. The pair have gone on to start a number of companies and have a wide range of experience building internet companies, and have a profound understanding of the Japanese & US markets.

When: Wednesday 28th June 10am NZT.

Product Spotlight:Product Managers’ Guide To Taming Fires And Winning FriendsZheng Li – VP of Product @ Raygun.

Themes:
  • What do Product Managers actually do, Building and communicating your roadmap
  • How to avoid the common Product Management pitfalls (dealing with churn, prioritisation, distributed teams, comms and office politics)
  • and exploring a day in the life of a Product Manager (and some tools to help you along the way).
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When: Friday 23rd June 10am NZT.

Kiwi Landing Pad Monthly AMA: ​

A Common Language on Company StageTheme: This month the Kiwi Landing Pad team are focusing on setting a common language around company stage, we have noticed many times and through the data we capture from the Sales & Marketing Jams that companies seem to struggle to identify their company stage, we want to help shape this and make it easier which will help founders, teams, advisors and investors in the long run.
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When: Friday 16th June @ 9am NZT.
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Looking forward for to seeing you at these sessions, remember to ask questions and pop these dates in your calendar.

​For more awesome content visit:

kiwilandingpad.com or salesandmarketingjam.com
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