SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keen IO, a leader in cloud analytics, today announced that it hired Will O’Brien as chief operating officer. O’Brien is a seasoned technology executive with a proven track record of scaling organizations, managing corporate financings, and structuring strategic partnerships. O’Brien joins Keen at a pivotal time to help the company meet the rising demand for its real-time, scalable, and extensible analytics platform.
“I am delighted to welcome Will O’Brien as COO of Keen IO. He is an extremely accomplished business executive who knows first-hand how big the opportunity is for cloud analytics,” said Keen founder and CEO, Kyle Wild. “Will’s operating experience, values, and strategic vision will be a tremendous asset to Keen during this time of rapid growth and expansion.”
“I am thrilled to join Keen IO as the company continues to define the future of the analytics industry,” said Will O’Brien. “Keen’s flexible and intuitive platform enables customers of all sizes to collect, enrich, and analyze custom event data at an unprecedented scale. Customers are flocking to Keen as they recognize it is no longer competitive to build analytics tools in-house or rely on the ‘one-size-fits-none’ dashboards that exemplified the first stage of digital business intelligence. They are using Keen’s platform to make decisions with real business impact and ROI.”
Last year, Keen expanded beyond its self-service analytics API and launched Keen Pro, an enterprise platform with flexible data models, embedded analytics, and support for large data volumes. As part of ongoing account management, Keen Pro customers also get hands-on expert advice from Keen’s engineers and data scientists to ensure their integration with Keen’s API is tuned for performance and delivers the desired results. The company has experienced tremendous customer growth and the Keen platform has been integrated across a wide range of categories, including mobile, gaming, e-commerce, media, IoT and retail.
As COO of Keen, O’Brien is tasked with driving operational excellence and financial performance. O’Brien arrives with a wealth of experience in building and running high growth technology firms including recent executive roles as CEO of BitGo, SVP at Big Fish Games (acquired for $885 million by Churchill Downs, NASDAQ:CHDN), and GM at TrialPay (acquired by Visa, NSYE:V). His angel investment and advisory portfolio includes more than 50 companies in a broad range of sectors including fintech, blockchain, gaming, media, healthtech and cloud services. O’Brien holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.
// About Keen IO
Founded in 2011, Keen IO (https://keen.io/) is a leading cloud analytics platform that lets businesses collect, enrich, pipe, store, and analyze custom event data at a truly massive scale, all via API. The company has raised more than $15 million from prolific investors including Sequoia Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, Amplify Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners. Keen has a diverse base of customers including O’Reilly Media, Quartz, EMC, OpenDNS/Cisco, Schneider Electric, Al Jazeera, International Hotels Group, Kik Messenger, Kongregate, The Motley Fool, and UserTesting, who query trillions of business-critical data points every month with the Keen platform.
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