Allison Kent-Smith

Allison Kent-Smith is currently an advisor at Boomtown Accelerators, but they have held many other impressive positions in the past. Allison was a contributor for Forbes from June 2018 to November 2021, writing about marketing transformation, talent, and ways of working. Prior to that, they were a mentor at Boomtown Accelerator from January 2014 to June 2018, working with accepted accelerator companies to refine ideas, design talent structure, and explore business development opportunities. Before their time at Boomtown, Allison was the director of digital development at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners from June 2010 to February 2013. In this role, they were responsible for the agency's digital development, focused on digital and technical programming, curriculum, and content. Allison launched "school within the agency" for both employees and GSP clients, and they led the design, development, and implementation of an ED program that included instruction in Interaction Design, UX, Business Development, Programming, Strategy, Social Media, Mobile, and other technical areas. In addition to designing organizational process, structure, approach, and support for L&D agency-wide, Allison also identified industry leaders as "teachers" and executed more than 200 classes.

Allison Kent-Smith has a M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communications from University of Colorado Boulder. Allison also has certifications from ProductLed in Product Led Growth and Product-Led Growth.