About Canvs AI
Canvs AI is the easiest, fastest and most accurate insights platform for analyzing open-ended text from virtually any source, including surveys, customer reviews and social media. Canvs is used by some of the world’s most admired brands, research agencies, and media & entertainment companies to accelerate time-to-insights, reduce cost, and deepen understanding of consumers.
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Leadership Team
Jared Feldman
Founder & CEO
Jared Feldman is the founder and CEO of Canvs AI, the fastest and easiest insights platform for analyzing open-ended text. He started the company with the vision of empowering organizations to understand their customers and markets at scale. Today, Canvs is used by some of the world’s most admired brands, research agencies, and media & entertainment companies to accelerate time-to-insights, reduce cost, and deepen understanding of consumers.
Outside of Canvs, Jared’s passions include supporting the global entrepreneur community as an angel investor and startup advisor, music production and travel. Jared was previously named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List and was awarded the Advertising Research Foundation’s Great Minds Award. Jared holds two patents in innovative measurement techniques and holds a BFA from New York University.
George Kontos
Chief Technology Officer
With five prior start-up experiences, George was born to be an entrepreneur. Canvs struck him as an exciting opportunity to join what was rapidly becoming an extremely successful company. As Chief Technology Officer, George manages technology operations and oversees product development and vision. He is a professional problem solver, inspiring teams to collaborate and develop innovative solutions to deliver the optimal customer experience. When he is not playing soccer with his kids, you can find George working on his current project: building an off-grid solar power system for his house.
Dr. Sam K. Hui PhD
Co-Founder & Advisor
As a believer in the potential of young minds, Dr. Sam Hui spotted CEO Jared Feldman’s talent when Jared was a student at New York University. Ever since Jared launched Canvs from his dorm room, Sam has always believed in the company’s mission. Sam earned his Ph.D in Marketing from UPenn, a MS in Statistics from Stanford, and a BS in Mathematics and Computational Science from Stanford and has written over 20 publications. Outside of Canvs, Sam enjoys researching the entertainment industry, specifically casino gambling and gaming.
Laura Kegley
Chief Revenue Officer
Laura has over two decades of experience leading sales teams at SaaS platforms offering cutting-edge AI solutions for consumer analytics and voice of the customer. Prior to joining Canvs, Laura built out the US team and GTM at Revuze and was the Senior Vice President of Account Management and GM of APAC at NetBase Quid. Her extensive background in sales and leadership, honed in both the tech and fashion industries, makes her uniquely qualified to drive Canvs AI’s continued growth. Kegley holds an MS in Technology Management from Columbia University.
Trip Kucera
EVP, Marketing
As Executive Vice President of Marketing, Trip is focused on driving awareness and growth for Canvs AI. Trip is a SaaS marketing veteran with over 20 years of experience. After starting his career in corporate communications (PR/AR), during which he navigated tech category creation, an IPO and an acquisition, Trip joined Aberdeen Group as research analyst covering marketing effectiveness and strategy. At Aberdeen, Trip developed survey-based data sets, correlating actions with performance to identify “best-in-class” practices. He subsequently led a “center of excellence” team within Oracle focused on accelerating modern marketing practices across the North American marketing teams and was head of marketing communications at Dyn, which was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Prior to joining Canvs, Trip led marketing for Blackbaud’s K-12 and Higher Education verticals.
Steven Wolkenstein
VP, Finance
As Vice President of Finance, Steve manages the finance and administration teams at Canvs AI. Steve brings over 20 years of SaaS experience working with rapidly growing private equity-backed technology companies. He specializes in helping companies manage their growth through implementation of process improvements and data enhancements. As a servant leader, his team’s focus is on their three constituencies: 1) Customers 2) Canvs employees and investors, and 3) Outside third parties (vendors, banks, consultants), with the objective of providing high-quality data and information to help each make better business decisions. Steve has significant experience in managing the rapidly increasing needs of finance and administration teams as the needs of the business expand, including budgeting/forecasting, cash management, customer and vendor contract negotiations, capital raising, and tax matters. Steve is a CPA (inactive), has a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and has worked for both publicly traded and private equity-backed companies.
Leadership Team
Jared Feldman
Jared Feldman is the founder and CEO of Canvs AI, the fastest and easiest insights platform for analyzing open-ended text. He started the company with the vision of empowering organizations to understand their customers and markets at scale. Today, Canvs is used by some of the world’s most admired brands, research agencies, and media & entertainment companies to accelerate time-to-insights, reduce cost, and deepen understanding of consumers.
Outside of Canvs, Jared’s passions include supporting the global entrepreneur community as an angel investor and startup advisor, music production and travel. Jared was previously named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List and was awarded the Advertising Research Foundation's Great Minds Award. Jared holds two patents in innovative measurement techniques and holds a BFA from New York University.
George Kontos
With five prior start-up experiences, George was born to be an entrepreneur. Canvs struck him as an exciting opportunity to join what was rapidly becoming an extremely successful company. As Chief Technology Officer, George manages technology operations and oversees product development and vision. He is a professional problem solver, inspiring teams to collaborate and develop innovative solutions to deliver the optimal customer experience. When he is not playing soccer with his kids, you can find George working on his current project: building an off-grid solar power system for his house.
Dr. Sam K. Hui PhD
As a believer in the potential of young minds, Dr. Sam Hui spotted CEO Jared Feldman’s talent when Jared was a student at New York University. Ever since Jared launched Canvs from his dorm room, Sam has always believed in the company’s mission. As Chief Data Scientist, Sam is the mind behind the Canvs machine. Sam earned his Ph.D in Marketing from UPenn, a MS in Statistics from Stanford, and a BS in Mathematics and Computational Science from Stanford and has written over 20 publications. Outside of Canvs, Sam enjoys researching the entertainment industry, specifically casino gambling and gaming.
Erinn Taylor
As Executive Vice President of Product and Platform, Taylor is charged with the direction and vision of the Canvs platform's expansion. He worked most recently as SVP, Product Development at Dynata, joining eighteen months ago when the firm acquired his previous employer, Critical Mix, where he was Chief Product Officer. Earlier he spent a dozen years at MR software firm Decipher, then eighteen months at FocusVision when it acquired Decipher in January 2015.
Trip Kucera
As Executive Vice President of Marketing, Trip is focused on driving awareness and growth for Canvs AI. Trip is a SaaS marketing veteran with over 20 years of experience. After starting his career in corporate communications (PR/AR), during which he navigated tech category creation, an IPO and an acquisition, Trip joined Aberdeen Group as research analyst covering marketing effectiveness and strategy. At Aberdeen, Trip developed survey-based data sets, correlating actions with performance to identify "best-in-class" practices. He subsequently led a "center of excellence" team within Oracle focused on accelerating modern marketing practices across the North American marketing teams and was head of marketing communications at Dyn, which was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Prior to joining Canvs, Trip led marketing for Blackbaud’s K-12 and Higher Education verticals.
Lisa Leung
As head of sales, Lisa is responsible for leading Canvs’ client acquisition, expansion and retention efforts. Lisa brings over 15 years’ experience and specialization in new client acquisition and business development to Canvs. Prior to joining Canvs in 2016 Lisa held several positions in account management and client success with Sysomos (acquired by Meltwater), acquiring, managing and growing relationships across a portfolio of Fortune 500 brands.
Board of Directors
Jason Stein
Stein
Josh Lamstein
KEC Ventures
Jared Feldman
Canvs
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