Bio
A 25-year enterprise software, consulting and Internet veteran, Allen Bonde is currently VP of marketing at Repsly, and an advisor to several start-ups. He was previously SVP of marketing at Placester, VP of product marketing and innovation at Actuate (sold to OpenText), and a partner and principal analyst at Digital Clarity Group, where he bootstrapped the firm's CRM and big data research. He is an investor in social marketing pioneer Wyng, where he was a co-founder and CMO, and was SVP and CMO at services firm eVergance, which he helped to sell to KANA Software. An accomplished industry watcher and strategist, he spent time studying online advertising at McKinsey's New York office, and has also held consulting and practice leadership roles at Yankee Group, Extraprise, and ABG (which he sold to eVergance). Earlier in his career, he was a researcher in AI and machine learning, and received a patent for some of his work. Published in over 150 publications around the globe, he has spoken at events across the US, Europe and Asia, has been a contributor to 1to1Media, DM News, and Forbes, and blogs at www.smalldatagroup.com.