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All the founding team members have had major successes, and this time they strive to make something 100 times better than before - hence the name Cien, which means "100" in Spanish.

ROB KALL
CEO / CO-FOUNDER 3 Previous Entrepreneurial Successes totaling $100M

SVP at leading Real Estate Software Co. RealPage (NASDAQ:RP)

Built 2nd most trafficked US Real Estate Website (remax.com)

Devised Strategic Partnerships w/ Airbnb, TripAdvisor

B.S. Comp Sci./Business Adm.
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BEN STRUM
CTO / CO-FOUNDER
Architected $1B Booking Platform (kigo.net)

Co-Founder of Bookt LLC, Acquired in 2014 by RealPage, Inc

Univ. of Miami, B.S. Computer Engineering

Columbia University, M.S. w/ focus on Machine Learning & Operations Research



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MARGOT CARTER
INVESTOR / CO-FOUNDER
President Living Mountain Capital

EVP/CLO RealPage, Led IPO (NASDAQ:RP) Over $2B Mkt. Cap

Lead Director, Chair Nominating & Governance (NYSE:IBP)

Led over 100 M&A Transactions

Fordham Law, JD


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Joanna Ridgway
 SVP,
Global Sales 

MD Corp Banking, Santander Bank, N.A. 

Corp Banking & Diligence Experience at BofA, JPM, Fifth Third

B.A. Rhodes College
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Steve
Valenta
 SVP,
Strategic Partnerships

Senior Managing Director NASDAQ

Senior Manager, EY

MBA, Southern Methodist University
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Ivan
Redini
 Director, Partner Success

Strategy Manager, Accenture 

Business Designer & Development. IDEO. UK.

MBA London Business School
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Martin Andersson
 Director, Data Visualization

20+ years of UX Design 

Graphic Designer & A.D. w/ Branding of National & International brands

B.A. Visual Arts
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Gosia
Wiejacha
 Lead,
Data Science

Lead Data Scientist for
TrueAI platform

Rose from Intern to Lead in 3 yrs.

M.S. Data Science UPC
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Advisory Board

Wide expertise and deep experience across business, sales, AI and transactions

Dr. CHRISTIAN BROWNLEES
Strategic Advisor

Professor of Economics and Business at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE

Expert in Statistics and Econometrics

PhD in Statistics from Università degli Studi di Firenze and Post-doc at NYU Stern

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JIM McGUIRE
Strategic Advisor

Former VP Sales - Microsoft

Part of Sales Leadership that took Azure Cloud from $0 to Billion Dollar Juggernaut

Turned around FAST (MS subsidiary) - received coveted MS Platinum Award

Ex IBM, HP, etc - 25 yrs. of IT Sales

BS Marketing Northern Illinois (Magna Cum Laude)

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SUSANNE DEEGAN
Strategic Advisor

Founder and CEO of Chase Strategies

Over 25 years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies and their CEO’s on strategy

Senior Advisor to Applecart

Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Advertising from Johnson & Wales University.

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MATTHEW HOFFMAN 
Strategic Advisor

Former VP Sales & GM – RealPage, Inc

Founder of 4 Companies

Multiple Successful Exists

BS Marketing & International Affairs, Florida State

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JEROME ROSE
Strategic Advisor

Executive positions in sales at SMS Inc & IBM

Managing sales teams with over $100M in quota

Expert in Sales Enablement & CRM Tools

MBA Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business

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MICHAEL O'HARE
Strategic Advisor

Managing Director at KeyBanc Capital Markets

Advisor on over $2 billion of M&A and growth equity capital transactions for software companies

Over 26 years of M&A experience in SaaS and Enterprise Software industry

MBA, Indiana University, B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University

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