Kurt Uhlir

Guntersville High School

University of Alabama, Manderson Graduate School of Business

The University of Alabama

Vanderbilt University

Chief Marketing Officer  -  Keynote Speaker  -  Business Unit President  -  CEO  -  GM  -  VP  -  Board Director  -  Advisor  -  Coach

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

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Chief Marketing Officer  -  Advisor to CEO  -  Keynote Speaker  -  Customer Success

Kurt is VP, Marketing at eXp World Holdings (NASDAQ: EXPI), overseeing the growth of eXp Realty's portals and agent tools, including lead generation, traffic, hyper-local content, and Enterprise SEO.

About eXp World Holdings, Inc.

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI) is the holding company for eXp Realty, Virbela, and SUCCESS Enterprises.

eXp World Holdings and its global brokerage, eXp Realty, is one of the fastest-growing real estate tech companies in the world with more than 60,000 agents in the United States, Australia, Canada, France, India, Mexico, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, and continues to scale internationally. As a publicly-traded company, eXp World Holdings provides real estate professionals the unique opportunity to earn equity awards for production goals and contributions to overall company growth. eXp World Holdings and its businesses offer a full suite of brokerage and real estate tech solutions, including its innovative residential and commercial brokerage model, professional services, collaborative tools, and personal development. The cloud-based brokerage is powered by an immersive 3D platform that is deeply social and collaborative, enabling agents to be more connected and productive.

For more information, visit <a href="https://expworldholdings.com/">https://expworldholdings.com/</a>.

eXp World Holdings

Vice President, Marketing

Originally founded to consolidate several of my early-stage investments, public speaking opportunities, and board roles. Since then, we have grown into a digital marketing agency for high-growth companies.

We have a mission for telling authentic stories and build engaging communities. We know high-growth companies because our founding team has built those companies and helped multiple growth-stage companies scale their marketing and sales. Now, we're helping others have an impact.

-  Lead client engagements to define go-to-market strategies, SEO/SEM roadmaps, integrated brand strategies, agile content marketing plans, and marketing analytics reports.
-  Drive consulting projects to define and create a modern demand generation marketing programs to accelerate pipelines and reach financial milestones.
-  Oversaw creation of digital marketing strategies for clients such as CBS Sports, Carhartt,
Shop-Vac, and Softwear Automation.
-  Responsible for creation of processes to drive marketing vision from inception to execution.
-  Built customer and local partner engagement strategies to maximize the number of raving
customers for multiple 25+ B2B and B2C clients.
-  Prominent speaker and coach on modern marketing activities, strategies, and tools featured at
PPAI, the White House, private company/team workshops, TechCrunch, and Thrive Global.

Ethereal Innovations, Inc.

Managing Partner & Founder  -  Marketing Strategy  -  SaaS  -  Advertising  -  Keynote Speaker  -  CMO

Provided (periodic) strategic advice on B2B marketing and innovation to private equity firms, venture capital groups, innovation teams and Fortune 500 companies. Business decision-makers come to GLG to gain insights to create better, more informed outcomes.

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)

Council Member & Consultant  -  Marketing & Advertising  -  Influencer Marketing  -  CMO  -  SaaS

Brought in to lead all growth, marketing, strategy, and communication programs aimed to help Showcase IDX achieve accelerated growth, secure new partnerships, and drive innovation.

-  Responsible for growing revenues, new accounts, and the number of agency partners - leading to the acquisition by eXp World Holdings (EXPI) in August 2020.
-  Rebuilt all sales, marketing and engagement strategies across all platforms, to increase lead generation, minimize Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), and increase revenue per local partner.
-   Achieved a 750% increase in brand recognition through more than 340 press mentions, local events, a new social media strategy, and a major industry cross-promotion partnership.
-  Served as Advisor to CEO and largest private equity holder on venture capital, M&A, growth, and intellectual property.

Chief Marketing Officer  -  Advisor to CEO  -  Keynote Speaker  -  Business Transformation  -  SaaS

We are changing the way consumer product ideas are evaluated and the way ideas turn into products in North America and around the World. Crowdcreating is the inevitable evolution of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding now possible by technology and social media. Crowdcreating decentralizes consumer product creation, empowers everyday people, involves the consumer in the product development process and capitalizes on the wisdom of the crowds to bring more power to the people.

Hubmade

Advisory Board Member  -  Digital Marketing  -  Marketing Strategy  -  Coach  -  Innovation  -  B2C

Pathway RE

Chief Marketing Officer  -  Partnerships  -  Marketing & Advertising  -  SaaS  -  Public Speaking

Brought on to provide deep insights into influencer marketing, referral marketing, and word-of-mouth marketing, as well as how growth-minded marketers make decisions related to their overall marketing strategy and current platforms.

ABOUT: Yaystack's unique "share to give" technology allows brands to ignite their customer base by allowing customers to unlock donations to charities they care about by sharing.

Yaystack

Advisory Board Member  -  Influencer Marketing  -  Digital Marketing  -  B2B Marketing  -  Venture Capital

MAM is the largest Made in America organization and represents 20,000 American sourced companies, with 520,000 consumer members. I stepped in as Chief Operating Offer in 2017 to oversee B2B marketing, strategy, and customer success.
-  Spearheaded strategy and training to drive marketing results with	100+ member	companies.
-  Developed comprehensive go-to-market plans for expansion into high-tech industries.
-  Oversaw all aspects of new product marketing materials to support sales with clear value propositions, resulting in a 250% increase in member companies.
-  Ensure the organization has the proper operating processes, financial mindset, as well as technologies and systems in place to effectively grow.
-  Led change to agile marketing for the team in 2017, resulting in 120,000 new consumer members and an increase of 500% in the pipeline for potential member companies.

The Made in America Movement

Chief Operating Offer  -  Business Transformation  -  M&A  -  Digital Marketing  -  GM  -  Innovation

Brought on to coach the founders in customer discovery, innovation, and execution as they've worked with initial lighthouse customers and closed their first round of funding. Currently assisting with their go-to-market strategy and development of marketing processes for their next round of growth.

ABOUT: Helping companies build qualified talent pipelines. TopPick's Talent CRM works on top of your ATS to build and nurture talent pools. Stop starting from scratch and start with top qualified candidates engaged with your company. Then, allow the Talent Screening module to seamlessly schedule and screen both passive and active candidates.

Selected for the 2017 BridgeCommunity Cohort, in coordination with a "heavy-hitting list of corporations – Capgemini, Coca-Cola, COX Enterprises, InterContinental Hotels Group, Porsche North America, SunTrust Bank, and The Weather Company".

TopPick Inc.

Advisory Board Member  -  Venture Capital  -  M&A  -  Digital Marketing  -  B2B  -  Coach to CEO

Initially brought on to provide counsel to CEO and COO on innovation in the automotive, smarter cities, IoT, and spatial data industries. Role expanded to provide insights around their go-to-market strategy, market positioning, and partnership opportunities.

ABOUT: MetroTech is the trusted, neutral, third-party Digital Streets Platform of the Autonomous City.

MetroTech Net (IntelliSection)

Advisory Board Member  -  Strategic Planning  -  Business Development  -  Venture Capital  -  M&A

- Asked by the White House to participate in and choose attendees for a roundtable with
the President on American companies and the economy. Brought eight American made companies to the White House for “Made in America Week”.
-  Selected for the first Made in America Roundtable at the White House with the President.
-  Led the 2019 acquisition and integration of Made in America Co. adding 50+ companies to our members, an e-commerce store, and 200,000+ consumer members.

Chairman  -  Board Director  -  Strategic Planning  -  Keynote Speaker  -  PR  -  Marketing Strategy

Pathway RE is a portfolio company of The National Association of REALTORS. Brought on to provide counsel to the CEO on real estate marketing, customer success, go-to-market strategy, and operations. Stepped in as Head of Marketing to finalize preparations for product launch.

ABOUT: Pathway RE is THE operating system for real estate agents - both residential and commercial.
-  Nurture from lead to close in one system
-  Fast-track real estate transactions
-  Collaborate with everyone on the deal
-  Reinforce agent value

Advisory Board Member  -  Advisor to CEO  -  Venture Capital  -  Go-to-Market Strategy  -  SaaS

Co-founded company that built one of the first influencer marketing platforms. Our marketing and customer success efforts drove the marketing programs responsible for millions of touch points with potential customers.
-   Assembled the initial team and oversaw the first three years of operations.
-   Raised and oversaw early-stage financing from angel investors including $1M capital raise from Bee Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and a group of prominent angel investors.
-   Responsible for all aspects of the company with day-to-day responsibility for marketing, sales, and customer success.
-   Led successful launch - becoming the platform of record for marketing teams in eSports, gaming, and nutrition industries. Customers included top brands such as CBS Interactive, BenQ, Harmonix, HyperX, Hansgrohe, KontrolFreek, <a href="http://Supply.com">Supply.com</a>, MuscleTech, and dozens of others.

Sideqik

CEO & Co-founder  -  Sales  -  Marketing  -  P&L  -  Influencer Marketing  -  SaaS  -  Business Development

Flashpoint is an "accelerator" that helps entrepreneurs build better startups, faster. The goal is to identify deep unmet demand and then build scalable companies to meet it. Since 2011, companies that originated at Flashpoint have grown to a combined valuation of over $1 billion.

The director, Dr. Merrick Furst, has developed an unprecedented approach to new company creation called “Startup Engineering,” centered on the discovery of authentic market demand and high yield startups. By building companies around authentic demand, Startup Engineering shortens launch time for startups, avoids unnecessary costs, and reduces risk.

Flashpoint at Georgia Tech

Deliberate Innovation Coach  -  Advisor  -  SaaS  -  B2B  -  Executive Coaching to CEO & Executive Team

Responsible for all non-sales outside relationships – fundraising, partnerships, technology licensing, mergers, and acquisitions, including relationships with Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and Google.
-   Led strategy and partnerships for industry-first Media Partner Program (MPP), including six launch partners resulting in $10M revenue in the first year.
-   Developed expansion strategy and marketing plan, leading to $300M+ acquisition by Oracle.
-   Oversaw creation of all due diligence materials and served as Vitrue lead for fundraising and diligence efforts.

ABOUT: Acquired by Oracle in June 2012; Vitrue SRM platform enables brands to engage consumers on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and emerging platforms such as Pinterest and Instagram through a singular, centralized platform interface. Vitrue's platform collectively manages more than one billion social relationships in over 100 countries.

Vitrue (an Oracle company)

Director of Strategy and Corporate Development  -  Venture Capital  -  M&A  -  Marketing Strategy

Led product and marketing efforts related to emerging technologies in social, location and e-commerce, reporting to Chief Product Officer.
-   Drove partnerships with multiple companies across social media, social commerce, web analytics and other sectors.
-   Led the Emerging Products and Vitrue Games teams through the release of multiple products responsible for driving multi-million revenue increases.
-   Managed Customer Advisory Council for key customer initiatives, including Apple, Samsung Mobile, American Express, Mcdonald's, Lowe's Home Improvement, P&G, BBC, and hundreds of more.
-   Responsible for all aspects of acquisition and integration of GamesThatGive.
-   Defined the marketing and sales messaging used across the company, resulting in 45% increase
in recurring annual revenue.

Director of Emerging Products  -  Advisor to CEO  -  Social Media  -  Innovation  -  P&L  -  Digital Marketing

- formerly NAVTEQ; IPO then acquired by Nokia)
Drove all aspects of business affairs (strategy, pricing, licensing negotiations) for SaaS, geo-spatial platforms, real-time roadway traffic, video games, athletic usage, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and emerging products, leading to $8.1B sale to and successful integration with Nokia.

-   Led worldwide competitor research efforts, identifying potential $1B+ revenue opportunities, resulting in successful pivot when Google entered geo-spatial market
-   Ran business and strategy for successful negotiations of intellectual property (IP) and technology licensing; Examples include Nokia / Apple patent agreement, NAVTEQ / Tele Atlas IP licensing, NAVTEQ / Google IP licensing
-   Reduced time to market and increased model forecast accuracy, for business divisions with $400MM of annual product development and $1B+ of annual revenue
-   Successful partnerships and co-marketing with many Fortune 500 companies and startups in Asia, Europe, North America and South America (e.g. Microsoft, Google, Tencent, China Mobile, Garmin, Motorola, Sirius Radio, BMW, Renault-Nissan, Tribune Group, Cox Radio, Route66, NavInfo, etc.)

HERE Technologies

Business Affairs, Strategy and Technology Innovation Leader  -  P&L  -  SaaS  -  Corporate Intelligence

Created as a web magazine that looks at the gaming, technology, mobile devices and entertainment industries from a business viewpoint.
-  Featured in Wired, 3D World Magazine, Mobile Games Analyst, Wireless World Forum, TheFeature, Gamasutra, GameDaily Biz and others.
-  Oversaw the content creation, editorial calendar, and guest writers.
-  Created and led the email marketing efforts resulting in 20,000 email subscribers.
-  Led creative design and build out of the website, from idea to launch in less than 30 days.
-  Created a growth hacking strategy that allowed us to connect to thought leaders in North America, Europe, and Asia, resulting in cross-promotions and partnerships to drive traffic.

Acquired for a piece of internal technology. We created a curation engine to identify news and trending content. This caught the attention of corporate development executives and led to an acquisition for the IP and developers.

The Technology Suits (acquired)

President and Head of Marketing  -  P&L  -  PR  -  Digital Marketing  -  SEO  -  Content Marketing

Cofounded the industry's 1st global special interest group for mobile gaming, with industry titans such as Microsoft Gaming, Nintendo, Activision, Electronic Arts, Rockstar Games, Sony, Ubisoft, Epic Games, and others. We successfully advanced the state of the mobile games industry.
-  Assembled and oversaw advisory board. Speaker at multiple international conferences.
-  Led all digital marketing efforts for the group, in coordination with IGDA's overall brand and marketing strategy.
-  Responsible for content strategy, PR, and all digital marketing efforts.
-  Chosen as a speaker for multiple international gaming conferences on 1) the state of mobile gaming 2) how to market disruptive gaming technologies and concepts to consumers 3) marketing strategies for high-growth mobile games.

International Game Developers Association (IGDA®)

Chairperson & Co-Founder of Mobile Game Dev SIG  -  Mobile Gaming & New Technology Advocate  -  Speaker

Developed and implemented the marketing strategy to expand internet subsidiary and marketing for multiple store locations, resulting in a 40% year over year growth of internet sales for four years.
-  Created marketing strategy resulting in capturing 10,000+ emails in the first 12 months of its launch.
-  Ran PPC/CPA and SEM campaigns responsible with annual budget of $50,000 - $100,000.
-  Led Search Engine Optimization (SEO) initiative for e-commerce website with 3,000 SKUs.
-  Oversaw all email campaigns (e.g. newsletters, email blasts, abandoned shopping cart, etc.) for 30,000 email list, with a minimum open rate of 38%

Better Living Products

Fractional Chief Marketing Officer  -  Lead Generation  -  Marketing Strategy  -  SEO  -  E-commerce

- Founded and led global skunk works team responsible for: 1) inventing technology and foundational patents covering all check-in services and location based advertising 2) all aspects of expanding NAVTEQ’s business into the gaming and entertainment industries 3) more cool stuff (ask me about the rockstars on my team)
-   Recognized for contributing 50+ invention disclosures in social media, location based services, gaming and other areas
-   Received 10+ company awards for inventions and 10+ granted/pending U.S. patents and international patent applications
-   Drove financial modeling, due diligence and substantial author of filings for $880MM IPO in 2004
-   Led strategy and IP efforts for $250MM in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across 3 continents
-   Founded and led competitive intelligence team reporting to C-Level and Board of Directors
-   Developed and implemented pricing strategies, new business models, and licensing structures for expansion into Asia in China (joint venture), South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan

Business Analysis, IPO, and Corporate Strategy Teams (Multiple Roles)  -  M&A  -  B2B  -  B2C  -  Innovation

ClearVision began as an informal business venture selling websites and hosting primarily to financial planners, small law firms, accountants, and college conferences. I led business development and marketing as the business grew to several hundred clients, with solid free-cash-flow each month. Acquired by a hosting company in 2006.
-  Led marketing website strategies, creation, and operations for all customer engagements.
-  Oversaw link building teams (internal and outsourced) for 100+ customer websites.
-  Responsible for expansion into high-education research conferences, digitizing of research papers, and launch of online database of research papers in economics and finance.

ClearVision Hosting (acquired)

President  -  P&L  -  Business Development  -  Marketing  -  Operations  -  Public Speaking  -  Keynote Speaker

Served as analyst for the Bank Portfolio Manager ($3.5 billion portfolio) and focused on finding new sources/methods for forecasting the economic and risk conditions in primary markets.

Compass Bank (A Compass Bancshares Company)

Treasury Analyst

Conducted financial analysis of private and public companies, including analysis of capital projects, intellectual property, venture capital and industry projections.

Financial Economic Consulting Group

Portfolio Management Analyst

Spearheaded creation of subsidiary focused on internet sales and catalog ordering. Responsible for hiring and managing new employees, outsourcing, website creation and marketing campaign.
-  Led creative design, development efforts, and roll out for custom self-hosted e-commerce store with 500+ SKUs at launch.
-  Oversaw entire marketing strategy and efforts for the successful launch, resulting in e-commerce revenues becoming 20% of total company revenues by year 3.
-  Implemented customer loyalty and referral programs to engage past customers, leading to a 40%+ rate of repeat purchases from first time customers.