Vitaly Golomb

Founder and CEO of Keen Systems an ecommerce and CRM SaaS solution for the printing industry. Vitaly is an expert in ecommerce, online marketing, the print industry as well as a number of other sectors. With his background as an award-winning designer and user experience expert, he continues to advise startups on product strategy, design, fund-raising and user acquisition. Vitaly also runs Founder Community, a monthly entrepreneurship-focused event series.

Prior to founding Keen, Vitaly was the head of Sputnik Integrated, a full-service design and marketing agency with multiple offices. Under Vitaly’s leadership, the agency grew to a multi-million dollar run-rate while attracting world-class talent and high-profile projects from Electronic Arts, Evernote, FedEx, HP, LookSmart, Namco, Stanford University, Datran Media, Oakland Raiders and many startups.

Prior to Sputnik, Vitaly was the CEO of commercial print firm where he enacted a comprehensive turnaround strategy and sold the company in 2005.

Vitaly got an early start as a pre-teen intern at ParaGraph, best known for powering the Apple Newton. By 15, Vitaly was a full-time freelance designer focused on branding and cross-media campaigns.

Vitaly has guest lectured on web design and online marketing at Northwest Polytechnic University, Cal State Hayward and UC Berkeley. He has also spoken at AlwaysOn Summit, Demo Conference, Stanford Global Technology Symposium, Jewish High Tech Society, Business Radio Network and SVII.

Vitaly studied Communications at Santa Clara University and earned a BA in Computer and Video Imaging from Cogswell Polytechnical College. He previously served as the Entrepreneurship Director for Silicon Valley Innovation Institute and on the Board of United Nations Association & Business Council of Silicon Valley.

1. Internet product development
2. User experience (UX) design
3. User interface (UI) design
4. Branding
5. Identity
6. Positioning
7. Analytics-driven online marketing
8. User acquisition
9. Direct marketing

• Hosting Platform

  • United States Patent Application 12/235191
  • Filed September 22, 2008
  Inventors: Vitaly Golomb

  A hosting platform provides website hosting for customers. The hosting platform may be operated in a cloud hosting environment and may comprise an application signup and billing module, a content management system, a transaction module, and optionally a messaging system and/or end-customer management and authentication module. To enable website hosting in different industries, the content management system can provide access to modules adapted for a particular industry, such as print, music, or the like. The modules adapted for a particular industry allow customers in the particular industry to engage in the online sale of products or services with an order flow that can be adapted for the particular industry. Alternately or additionally, a consumer portal can be provided for each industry allowing end-users, e.g., end-customers, of a particular industry to connect peer-to-peer in relation to customers of the hosting platform that provide products or services within the particular industry.

• English

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

• Russian

  (Native or bilingual proficiency)

Websites:

• Personal Website
• Blog

Interests:

Reading; film; motorcycle racing; road cycling; aspiring pilot; writing on business strategy and design thinking; drummer with 17 years jazz. blues and rock live performance and recording; dedicated father of two.

Groups and Associations:

(2010 - Current) Silicon Valley Innovation Institute - Entrepreneurship Director (2007 - 2009) Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association - Founding President (2003 - 2004) Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce - Ambassador (2003 - 2004) United Nations Association and Business Council - Chair, Marketing & Outreach

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  AmBAR
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  Beyond Web to Print
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  Brand Strategy and Marketing Executives
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  Digital Printing
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  Digital Printing Council
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  European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley
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  Executive Suite
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  FoundersCard
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  Interaction Design Association
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  Link Silicon Valley, LLC
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  Marketplace Germany
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  Print 2.0
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  Print Industry Networking Group
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  Printing Industries of America Networking Group
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  Printing Sales Professionals
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  Printoolz
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  SEOmoz
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  SVII
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  TEC - The Entrepreneurs Club
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  The DEMO Conference
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  The Founders Club Network
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  UX Professionals
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  Web 2 Print and Web Marketing for Print Providers
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  Web-to-Print
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  printjunkie.net
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  startupSQUARE

Honors and Awards:

• AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford 2010 - CEO Showcase
• Silicon Valley Innovation Society - “From The Entrepreneurial Trenches”
• DEMOfall 2009 - Alpha Pitch, “Demo God” runner-up
• Global Technology Symposium at Stanford 2009 - Runner-up, International Business Competition
• Jewish High Tech Society – “Eastern European Outsourcing Best Practices”
• Silicon Valley Innovation Society - “The Raise of Web 2.0”
• Business Radio Network – “Effective Small Business Online Marketing Tactics”
• Northwest Polytechnic University - Guest Lecturer in Web Design and Online Marketing
• Cal State Hayward - Guest Lecturer in Web Design and Online Marketing
• University of California Berkeley - Guest Lecturer in Web Design and Online Marketing