Allen Bonde is vice president of marketing at mobile CRM provider Repsly, and has consulted with dozens of emerging and global consumer and B2B brands. He has also spent time at McKinsey and Yankee Group, was co-founder of social marketing pioneer Wyng, and VP of product marketing and innovation for the Analytics business at OpenText. He is a long-time "data guy," blogs at Small Data Group, and started his career as a researcher in machine learning and AI in the telecom sector.

As founder of IOOI Advisors, he also enjoys advising early-stage companies in the Boston area, and was named a “50 On Fire” Finalist in Marketing & Advertising for 2016. Allen is also a prolific speaker and writer, has delivered keynote talks on 4 continents, and has been featured on MSNBC, CNBC and FOX News, as well as in over 150 publications worldwide. He holds degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Virginia, plays a mean bass guitar, and when not working can be typically found up on a ladder renovating his family's beach house.