Kelly Herrell

Kelly Herrell has a thirty-year career span in high tech industries. After earning his MBA at Cornell, he started in Product Management with large companies such as AT&T and Oracle, which landed him in Silicon Valley in 1995. From there, he quickly pivoted to software startups where he rapidly grew responsibilities to become CEO. Of the first four consecutive startups, two went public and two were acquired. Now at his fifth young software company, Hazelcast, he is driving rapid growth across the world’s largest financial services and eCommerce customers worldwide.

Kelly has served as an advisor to multiple young companies earning successful exits and is a mentor and lecturer for the Digital Immersion program at Cornell’s graduate business school.