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As Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Compliance Officer, Gracie leads the global legal team in managing the company’s legal affairs worldwide. She also manages the company’s global ethics and compliance program. Gracie originally joined Bazaarvoice in 2015 as Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, managing the company’s ethics and compliance program and providing administrative oversight of the internal audit function.

Gracie also had a 13-year tenure at Dell, serving in a variety leadership positions, including SVP of the litigation, employment law, government relations, and ethics and compliance functions. Gracie has also served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Texas where she taught courses on business law, ethics, government relations, corporate compliance, and corporate social responsibility. She started her legal career in private law practice and was a partner in the Austin Office of Hughes & Luce (now K&L Gates) before joining the in-house legal team at Dell. She received her undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.

As Chief Financial Officer, Ken oversees the financial strategy, planning and analysis, operations and accounting for Bazaarvoice. Previously, Ken was the SVP of Finance — Controller & Program Management and was responsible for global controller functions, leading the organization’s global Program Management team, and driving cross-functional process improvements.

Prior to joining Bazaarvoice, Ken served as the CFO at Younicos, a venture-backed startup in the clean tech industry. In this role, he had global financial responsibilities and helped raise over $50 million in venture capital. He also served as CFO and COO of Open Labs, Inc. where he raised $2 million in funding from investors and venture capitalists and significantly restructured and improved the company’s manufacturing operations.

Ken also had a 17 year tenure at Dell, serving in a variety of general management and executive roles in professional services, operations, and finance. Ken holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Creighton University and earned his CPA from the Texas Board of Certified Public Accountants in 1986.

As General Manager, Colby oversees the Influenster community and content acquisition services for Bazaarvoice.

With over 15 years of experience operating media divisions and digital properties, Colby has a track record of launching profitable enterprises, building brands, and growing audiences. He spent the past nine years at Disney, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Manager. In this position, Colby led the digital and streaming charge for the brands of Walt Disney Television, which include the ABC network, Good Morning America, FiveThirtyEight, Marvel, and Disney Channel. Prior to that, he served as Senior Executive Producer with CBS Television, overseeing five hours of live daily television coverage for a local affiliate. Colby’s career began in Silicon Valley as “Employee #12” at (then startup) IntApp, which provides cloud-based solutions for professional and financial services.

Colby earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson and his undergraduate degree in Economics from Stanford University.

As Chief Technology Officer, Fritz oversees Bazaarvoice’s global engineering teams and is responsible for the design, development, quality, and production operations of the company’s innovations in e-commerce software.

Prior to joining Bazaarvoice, Fritz served as Vice President of Engineering at Mitek Systems, a leading provider of mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions where he led the development of the company’s identity verification platform and played an instrumental role in building the company’s mobile deposit solution. Prior to that, he held executive positions at Intuit and MaintenanceNet, which was acquired by Cisco. He also spent a large portion of his early career overseeing software engineering teams at JDEdwards, now owned by Oracle.

Fritz holds an MBA from University of Colorado Denver and a BS from Trinity University.

Lucas leads our Product Management and User Experience teams. He initially joined Bazaarvoice to define its mobile strategy, but soon led the growth of Bazaarvoice’s data and retail products and now oversees the entire Product suite.

Prior to joining Bazaarvoice, Lucas founded several startups in his home country of the Netherlands. He moved to Austin in 2013 to join the inaugural program of the Techstars Accelerator program and found that while his blood is Dutch, his spirit is Texan.

During his tenure at Bazaarvoice, he’s overseen a variety of products, but the thing he’s most proud of building is his team. Lucas lives in downtown Austin, with his wife and daughter and enjoys reading, art and offensive Dutch humor.

Loran leads Bazaarvoice’s corporate strategy and development processes, including the 2018 Marlin Equity Partners take-private of Bazaarvoice, and the acquisitions of AddStructure and Influenster. A member of the Bazaarvoice team since 2012.

A global expert in eCommerce and online retail, Loran has 17 years of progressive experience working with a global network of thousands of the world’s best retail and brand leaders to help them forge digital transformation and growth strategies. As a thought leader, Loran has represented Bazaarvoice at SXSW, WPP Checkout, Internet Retailer, Total Retail, eMarketer and the National Retail Federation, but most importantly, side-by-side with hundreds of our clients.

Prior to Bazaarvoice, Loran led global eCommerce and digital strategy for 3M Company’s Consumer Business Group. Previously, he led marketing, customer acquisition, and retail science for ShopNBC, then a Top 100 Internet Retailer. Loran studied Politics at Princeton University. Loran is a private pilot, civic leader in Austin, and most importantly, husband and father to two daughters.