CGO @ A1M. Award-Winning Marketer Obsessed with Building Systems. Co-Host of Marketers Talking. Mediocre Call of Duty Player.
It all started in 1995 when my grandpa bought a copy machine and I started making counterfeit bills with my classmates pictures where the dead presidents should be. I sold them for $2 a piece or 3 for $5 until the school shut it down and I switched to selling mix tapes before moving onto building geocities sites for local businesses.
Some kids grew up playing with dolls or legos; I grew up playing business.
My most profitable childhood venture was mowing the neighbors lawns - I later learned that this was partially because my grandfather was fertilizing their yards while they were at work. This was before Nest and Ring when the only home security was the stay-at-home parents in the neighborhood and they didn't snitch on each other.
I had an unconventional childhood which left me with a strong sense of purpose and confidence that I could conquer anything I chose, regardless of my experience or expertise in an area, as long as I work hard.
This led me to be the first-in-the-family to do a lot of things; starting college part time at 15, moving to Italy at 16 for a year abroad, launching and selling a company in my early 20s, moving from a 7,200 person town to NYC to work in VC-backed startups, publishing a book, selling another company, being on tv, speaking at conferences around the country, grad school, and more.
Nearly 3 decades after my first (childhood) entrepreneurial venture I'm still in the business of building businesses and love it.
Today I run A1M with one of my oldest marketing friends who I met on Twitter in the early 2010s. We split our time between advising high-growth SaaS startups and founders, working directly with clients to drive revenue through adoption of AI and robust, automation systems, and producing content to help make good marketing more accessible for all.
Prior to High Alpha, Kristian founded Studio Science - a leading design and innovation consultancy that he sold in 2019. He's an active angel investor and previously co-founded Gravity Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund, and a number of software companies, including Octiv, Lessonly, Visible, and Pathagility. In addition to serving on several corporate boards, he's actively involved in a number of philanthropic and nonprofit endeavors.
GTM Strategist | Business Builder | Revenue Generator | Narrative Creator | Digital Innovator
Let's chat about Growth Strategies and Enterprise Brand Partnerships. Operational Efficiencies, Revenue Maximization, Business Development are open game as well.
I have an extensive personal and professional network that I am happy to expand and amplify if it helps you, so feel free to connect with me.
I have a lengthy history of launch successes across numerous verticals ranging from Visual Media and Financial Services to Travel and Digital Startups.
Current responsibilities include maximizing new revenue, managing a talented and growing team, business development and strategic partner management. Skilled in selling / negotiating / procurement / contracting (RFI, RFP and MSA / SOW, etc.) but extend to coaching, mentoring, building business cases, presentations and public speaking.
I'm also intimately familiar with the end-to-end product lifecycle, have conducted extensive market research (include UX / UI testing), gathered detailed business requirements, and designed / built / UAT / launched numerous new products to address current market needs.
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) Consultants to Business & Government / Technical Information Security Surveys / Corporate Counterespionage Solutions
Kevin D. Murray CPP, CISM, CFE, CDPSE is a Technical Information Security Consultant* and
electronic surveillance detection specialist with over four decades of experience.
Murray Associates, founded in 1978, is an independent security consulting firm which provides eavesdropping detection and counterespionage services to business, government and at-risk individuals.
Headquartered in the New York metropolitan area, a Murray Associates team can assist you quickly, anywhere in the United States, and internationally.
Murray Associates technical information security inspections solve security concerns, such as:
• business espionage;
• illegal eavesdropping,
• voyeurism and tracking;
• information security / intellectual property loss loopholes;
• spying at off-site meetings;
• protection of Board meetings;
• enterprise TSCM program management;
• construction projects: information security advice, TSCM documentation / testing;
• and more.
Complete information is available at https://counterespionage.com.
Murray Associates is an independent security consulting firm. "Independent" means clients receive honest advice, unbiased by commissions, referral fees, or sales incentives.
* Also referred to as: Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, TSCM, or bug sweeps.
Hobbies: Travel, Amateur radio (W2KDM)
For over three decades R&A Marketing has been developing effective money-making promotions that are specifically intended for retailers who sell products for the home. From turn-key circular programs for large appliance and electronics buying groups in the early 1990′s to custom agency services in the 2000′s R&A’s mission has stayed the same: To always give the retailer a real chance at success.
The WHY and the need is different for every retailer. But the one thing that binds us together is the common goal of success. We would love to help grow and reenergize your business.
Founder & Director, The Affiliate & Partner Marketing Association: educating, advocating and elevating the affiliate industry | Also, speak to me about affiliate consulting, strategy, data, editorial and content.
With more than 20 years of experience in the affiliate and partnerships industry, I am founder and director of The Affiliate & Partner Marketing Association, a new initiative that aims to promote and professionalize the global affiliate market. I am also an affiliate marketing expert, a qualified journalist, and an industry stalwart, who has been recognized by The Drum and PerformanceIn as one of the most influential players in the UK industry.
I have a proven track record of leading and growing teams, securing and managing blue-chip clients, creating and delivering affiliate marketing strategies, and producing and presenting industry-first insights and reports. As a former Strategy Director and Global Client Strategy Director at Awin, the leading affiliate marketing network, I was instrumental in expanding the business from 35 to over 1,400 people in 16 years, and supporting the rollout of the award-winning SME proposition, Awin Access. I have also served as the Chair of the Affiliate Marketing Council three times and contributed to the self-regulatory and promotional efforts of the industry. I am now available for affiliate consultancy and new senior level opportunities alongside my APMA commitements.
If you're interested in finding out more about the APMA, please register here www.theapma.co.uk.
Currently, I'm interested in: gardening, content strategy, web3's real-life applications, distributed agriculture, and food systems.
Epic Gardening is a content to commerce gardening company, with the #1 most-followed accounts across most social media platforms. Our mission is to teach the world to grow, and we do so by creating best-in-class gardening content and selling high-quality, functional gardening products directly to our passionate audience of growers.
Past Projects
Funded my college degree by playing online poker. Near the tail end of my poker career, I began to both coach and invest in other poker players, giving me the funds to start my first business post-graduation.
Grew and sold high-end microgreens to some of the best restaurants in the San Diego area in my first experiment with offline products. Although I shut this business down so I wouldn't be tethered to one location, it sparked a life-long interest in plants, food, and food systems.
Co-founded a startup called GreatMate, which was a machine-learning / AI-based relationship personal assistant. Inability to get product-market fit before we ran out of cash (along with a whole host of other failures) caused GreatMate to fail.
Was employee #2 at Scribe Media (formerly Book in a Box), a new type of publishing company co-founded by Tucker Max and Zach Obront. I was in charge of building out the author marketing services side of the company, as well as executing a lot of the marketing strategy in the early stages of the company's life. In the 18 months I was there, Book in a Box grew from $200k in revenue and 10 authors to over $2.5mm and 250+ authors.
Kevin F. Adler is the Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages, an award-winning nonprofit organization that helps people experiencing homelessness rebuild their social and financial support systems, primarily through family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and direct cash transfers, including the United States' first basic income pilot for people experiencing homelessness. To-date, Miracle Messages has reunited over 500 families, paired 150 phone buddies, and distributed $50K.
Prior to Miracle Messages, Kevin co-founded three education technology startups: https://www.linkedin.com/redir/general-malware-page?url=alumn%2eus (acquired), Entangled Group (acquired), and BetterGrads (nonprofit free mentoring service). Kevin is the author of Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital: A Study of the 500-Year Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (Rowman & Littlefield 2015). Kevin is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and Occidental College, where he was the 2018 Young Alumnus of the Year and where President Obama's favorite professor said, "in 40 years of teaching, Kevin is the single best student I’ve ever had."
For his work as a social entrepreneur and advocate, Kevin has been honored as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, TED Resident, MassChallenge winner, Rotary scholar, Ashoka & American Express emerging innovator, South by Southwest (SXSW) Community Service Award winner, and Singularity University Global Solutions Program 2015 participant. In 2021, Kevin served as the "Social Entrepreneur in Residence" at the Stanford GSB course on Strategic Leadership of Nonprofits and Social Ventures.
Kevin has given talks at TED, the US Census Bureau, HUD, and HHS, The Commonwealth Club, SXSW, Google, Berkeley, and Stanford. Kevin’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, BBC, on a billboard in Times Square, in an essay by President Bush, and many more.
Kevin was born and raised in Livermore, California, and lives just outside San Francisco.
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