Kenneth Frank

Kenneth has a proven track record in the technology arena - in telecommunications, software, services and retail. He has held responsibility for P&Ls in excess of $2B and has managed organizations as small as 100 and as large as 7,000. He has vast international experience having lived in Paris, France and in Mumbai, India for over 5 years. He has worked in large, public multi-nationals (Alcatel-Lucent, BellSouth), early stage start-ups (Broadband Office, Masergy) as well as, most recently, software technology private equity turnaround and growth companies. Kenneth's strength in technology and product is coupled with significant scaled operational and Go-To-Market experience. He is well networked and respected in the industries he's served.

Kenneth has served as the CEO at Kibo Software a Vista Equity Partners (private equity) portfolio company providing omni-channel retail SaaS solutions for the mid-market retailer and branded manufacturing segments. Prior to Kibo, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Aptean - another Vista Equity Portfolio company focused in the Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Resource Management and the Supply Chain Management segments.

Prior to his Vista experiences, Kenneth was most recently the President, Solutions and Marketing a member of the Management Committee at Alcatel-Lucent where he was responsible for their integration, software, end-to-end delivery and go-to-market functions globally based in their Paris, France headquarters. During this stint, he was also the President of the Joint Venture between Reliance Industries (India) and Alcatel-Lucent supporting the design and strategy of Reliance Industries telecommunications investment working directly for both the CEO of Alcatel-Lucent and Mukesh Ambani, CEO and founder of Reliance Industries in Mumbai, India. He held earlier assignments at Alcatel including President, Global Professional Services and CTO of Alcatel North America. Prior to Alcatel-Lucent, he held executive positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, BellSouth Telecommunications and Kleiner-Perkins backed start-up Broadband Office/Zephion/Masergy.

Besides his board experience with Kibo Software (as CEO) and with Eyecast (privately held company in video surveillance segment based in Miami, Florida), Kenneth has been on multiple non-profit boards including Junior Achievement, Circle Ten Council/Boys Scouts of America and University of Southern California Board of Leaders (Marshall Business School). He has held industry board positions including Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), the Telecommunications Management Forum (TM Forum) and Center for Telecommunications Management (CTM at University of Southern California).

He received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, his MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and his MBA from Emory University.