Ken Kalb has a history of starting and leading successful technology companies. Previous to co-founding Analog Analytics with Tom Buscher, Mr. Kalb was CEO of SearchRev, a paid search optimization company. From May of 2006 through August of 2007, Mr. Kalb lead a 500 percent increase in revenue resulting in the company's sale to AKQA / General Atlantic in September of 2007 for a six fold return on shareholder value.
In 1998 Mr. Kalb was the founding CEO of Continuous Computing, based in San Diego, California. While there Mr. Kalb lead the company to $72 million in revenue, raised $52 million in capital, completed two acquisitions off of the company's balance sheet, developed teams in India, China and the US with 450 employees and won multiple awards.
Mr. Kalb won the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2005.
Under his leadership, Deloitte & Touche recognized Continuous Computing on six separate occasions for its rapid growth rate, including winning the San Diego Fast 50 award for being the fastest growing company with a 28,357 percent increase over a five-year period. In addition, he won the Fast 500 award for being the 16th fastest growing company in North America. The company also won multiple Product of the Year awards and in March 2004 was honored as Company of the Year during inFUSION '04. In February 2005, the company was awarded a software patent for "High Availability File Server For Providing Transparent Access To All Data Before And After Component Failover."
Previous to Continuous Computing, Mr. Kalb was president of Emultek (now eSim), an Israeli simulation tool company, where he doubled revenues and led a successful IPO.
Mr. Kalb has attended American University and New York University Graduate Film School. Originally from New York, Mr. Kalb lives in San Diego. |
