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Kevin Bolen

Kevin is a results-oriented leader with a proven track record of identifying, incubating, and scaling new sources of growth in a variety of domains, industries and company stages. He has been a Partner at Innosight, an innovation consultancy since 2007. He collaborates openly and efficiently across many topics and has worn many "hats" (COO, CMO, Sales) in his career as a direct enterprise leader and a trusted strategy consultant. He holds an MBA from New York University.

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I hired Kevin through two contracts with Innosight during the course of 2008. Kevin was great to work with. Kevin provided us expert leadership and giudance in best-practice innovation methodologies and recommendations. He did so in a way that was truthful, engaging, and motivational. Kevin's work with Sage led to some highly insightful and potentially disruptive innovation ideas. He was very prompt, thorough, informative, and courteous with his written and verbal communications. Kevin is a highly polished, yet personable professional. I would easily hire Kevin and Innosight again.
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David Horn Source: LinkedIn

“Kevin is a true professional. His knowledge of both business, broad-based and specific, enable him to provide valued insights that are helpful to any company. Kevin's skills make him a valuable asset both to the company he works for and its clients. I definitely hope to work with Kevin again!”

Russell Trounce Source: LinkedIn

Kevin was a solid marketing executive and visionary who was able to convert vision and strategic objectives into product direction and partnered with the business units to assist with execution. He was a solid business partner in go-to-market strategies and an excellent addition to the Lionbridge management team. I will work with Kevin again and will hire him as part of my team if the opportunity came along.

Satish Maripuri Source: LinkedIn

Kevin is a rare talent. He is part senior marketer, part seasoned management consultant, and part business executive, who has a very distinct way of examining tough problems and devising solutions. By understanding finance, HR, marketing, and sales principles, he is able to take a holistic view of the enterprise that creates relevant and actionable opportunities. In my experience, this is unique in marketing leadership, and contributes to his overall success as an executive.

Aaron Dun Source: LinkedIn

Kevin has an innate ability to look at information from multiple angles and provide quick intiutive analysis. He would not only look at a problem from traditional head-on perspective, but would also turn it on its ear and find unique angles that allowed us to exploit what at first appeared to be disadvantages. In many cases when assessing a competitor or market opportunity, Kevin would provide insight that would get us thinking in new directions and often resulted in more effective use of limited resources.

Working with Kevin was a pleasure, he helped me expand my analytical skills and added a creative perspective that has helped me greatly as I moved on in my career.

Michael Rosenblatt Source: LinkedIn

I worked with Kevin at Lionbridge and found him to be a true professional. He was knowledgable in a number of areas and always willing to provide advice or help in anyway for the companies best interest. I highly recommend Kevin!

David Flanagan Source: LinkedIn

Kevin is a "natural" at business, marketing, strategy and business development. Kevin has a great ability to lead and motivate staff, and participate in problem solving. He is a very hands-on leader, and rolls up his sleeves and works along-side his team, and cares deeply and invests in the teams' success. Finally, I have never met anyone who could crank out high-quality presentations in such short periods of time (on any topic, too) as Kevin.

Dmitry Grenader Source: LinkedIn

Kevin is an exceptionally focused and determined strategic marketing professional who displays an innate ability to deliver projects on time and on budget whilst working across diverse sets of teams and geographies. Kevin’s leadership qualities are embodied in his ‘lead from the front’ attitude where he led successive global teams through major acquisition and integration phases, not to mention the successful launch of ‘Freeway, a major innovation in the localisation industry.
Kevin is an extraordinary professional and from my experience in working with him I can state that he is a valuable asset to any company.

Michael O'Brien Source: LinkedIn

Kevin brings energy, excitement and a wealth of knowledge to the CMO position. He tackled the difficult task of leading a marketing organization that never had marketing leadership before. He brought marketing discipline, process and structure to an otherwise decentralized organization.

Kevin is an out-of-the box thinker, avid blogger and excellent communicator. A high-energy executive who constantly challenges the status quo in search of improved marketing effectiveness. He pushes his team to achieve excellence, and is a strong mentor who encourages his team to think about both their present and future career goals. He is always ready to engage customers, analysts, and the media to help them see the vision of what is possible.

Archit Shah Source: LinkedIn

Worked with Kevin while at LexiQuest. I found Kevin's ability to understand technical issues and turn them into busienss and marketing concepts brilliently. Kevin is extremely bright and it is no surprise he has moved up in his career so quickly.

David Morgan Source: LinkedIn

Kevin was one of the finest marketing executives I've ever had the pleasure to work with. His creativity, boundless energy, optimism and ability to generate sales results is rare. I hope to work with him again.

Terry Seymour Source: LinkedIn

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