KX - Key Persons
With a proven track record of delivering mission critical results for hyper-growth companies, Anitha brings more than 25 years of finance and operational expertise to KX. Combining an operational and data-driven mindset with a visionary capacity to transform and scale businesses, Anitha has previously held leadership roles at companies including Fireblocks, Rapid7, Catalant Technologies, Lyniate and iPass. She has extensive experience building high-performing teams and scalable infrastructure that successfully deliver hyper-growth and major global expansion programs.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Leadership Team
Ashok Reddy, as the CEO of KX, applies his wide-ranging experience with Fortune 500 companies, leading banks and firms worldwide to foster a better understanding and use of AI systems. His main focus rests on the often overlooked, yet fundamental, concept of temporal reasoning in AI, i.e., the system's ability to understand the relationships between events over time.
Ashok Reddy is dedicated to making a tangible difference in the AI field. He seeks to enhance AI's capacity through temporal reasoning and is passionate about fostering a more collaborative future between humans and AI, where each entity benefits from the other's strengths.
After spending the 90s in ground-breaking, real-time telecoms software development at Alcatel, in 2002 Charles specialized in applying KX technology at the Equity Derivatives Group in J.P.Morgan, followed by Unicredit and Deutsche Bank. He joined KX as CTO in 2008, where he has since led the team that develops and supports the ultra-fast database, kdb+. As of 2021, Charles continues as Chief Scientist, responsible for the research initiatives that help KX retain its position as the leader of time series streaming analytics.
As Chief Growth Officer, James is responsible for driving strategic and operational initiatives to accelerate KX's growth and for building the KX developer and user community across the world. He joined First Derivatives in 2009 and spent several years building front office trading and analytics platforms, using KX technology, for many of the world's largest financial institutions. He was subsequently appointed to a number of leadership positions, including CTO, and led the global expansion of the product and solution engineering teams through a combination of organic growth and the integration of strategic acquisitions. He holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance from University College Dublin.
Before coming to KX in 2023 to oversee Go-To-Market operations, John Hoffman served as Head of Sales for Data and Analytics for Google. John joined Google through the acquisition of Looker and played an integral role in expanding the market positioning of its data and analytics business and supporting the integration with the Google Cloud organization. He has over 25 years of experience in the enterprise software industry, including leadership roles in both start-up organizations and multi-billion-dollar corporations.
Lauren joined KX in July 2021 as VP of Human Resources and was promoted to SVP in March 2022. Lauren is a hands-on leader, actively engaged in driving the people strategy to retain and attract the industries best talent in support of the overall business plan. Lauren is a seasoned leader having worked in the software industry for over 10 years and has held several human resources and talent acquisition roles at several high-growth businesses including TIBCO, Information Builders and [m]Platform. Lauren holds a Bachelor's degree and is a Certified Professional in Human Resources.
Job Titles:
- Business Executive
- Chief Product & Engineering Officer
Michael is an experienced software business executive with a strong track record of driving growth and building scalable global software product businesses for the enterprise market. At KX, his focus is on driving a product-led software strategy, accelerating market growth by democratizing access to KX's market-leading technology, principally the KDB.AI vector database.
With over 20 years of experience in software development Michael held a number senior positions at IBM, leading teams in product management and engineering for data, AI, integration, and automation technologies. Most recently, he served as an advisor to the leadership team at Domo Inc, a cloud business intelligence company, on product and business strategy.
Paul is an experienced and successful Company Executive with over 15 years of senior management experience in both private and public multi-national tech companies. He is responsible for KX's technology vision and roadmap, delivering its product strategy across all industry verticals. Paul is passionate about using technology to generate value and helping clients to achieve their business objectives. He was formally the Communication Sector Leader (Telco, Media & Entertainment and Utilities) for IBM's Analytics Solutions globally. Prior to IBM, Paul was CTO of TheNowFactory - an awarding winning mobile network analytics company which was sold to IBM in 2013, 6.5 years after startup. Before IBM, Paul worked in various engineering roles in Openet and Logica. He holds a BSC in Electronic Eng and an MBA from Smurfit Business School.
Job Titles:
- Head of Partnerships & Strategic Alliances
Paul joined KX in 2017 and has more than 25 years of experience in providing specialist advice on Partnerships, Alliances and corporate structures. Prior to joining KX, Paul spent much of his career at KPMG Ireland, rising to become head of its corporate finance business and responsible for setting the strategic direction of the business unit and leading a large team of corporate finance professionals. A trained accountant, Paul has spent the first 3 years at KX establishing KX Ventures - creating a portfolio of 20 venture-backed KX companies. Since 2020 he has been Head of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances for KX globally, successfully originating and developing meaningful KX partnerships with a focus on Cloud Vendors, Corporate Development Partners, ISVs, SIs, Data Vendors and hardware providers. He holds a BSc in Accounting (Queens University Belfast) and an MBA (University of Ulster, Jordanstown).
Job Titles:
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Senior International Marketing Executive
Peter Finter is a senior international marketing executive with broad experience across product, sales, and marketing. Peter has successfully led global organizations through periods of rapid growth and transformation across a variety of B2B high technology industries and business models, from pre-IPO start-ups to highly mature public organizations in the US, Canada and EMEA. Peter's deep expertise includes brand development, product-led growth, account-based marketing, product & solutions marketing, channels, alliances & partnerships, strategy, and operations.
Áine Rafferty is the Chief Legal Officer of KX and Senior Vice President, responsible for the global legal affairs of KX. Áine joined KX in 2017 as VP of KX Legal and was appointed Chief Legal Officer and SVP in March 2022. Áine last served as Corporate Counsel and Company Secretary for a large Pharma corporation. Prior to that she worked in private practice as a Litigator. Áine also provides a pro-bono advisory role to a number of scaling SMEs. Áine has over 15 years' experience as a trusted legal advisor to board level and senior executives. She brings a depth of expertise across a range of legal disciplines and of driving legal teams to success.