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 Chief Marketing Officer, Sara Spivey is responsible for overall leadership of Bazaarvoice’s global marketing programs, including demand generation, product marketing, brand strategy, and communications.

Sara has more than 30 years of marketing, strategy, and leadership experience with industry-leading organizations. Before joining Bazaarvoice, Sara served as CEO of InReach, a provider of online continuing education management solutions, a role preceded by her tenure as chief marketing officer for Convio. Prior to that she was vice president, Marketing and Business Development at rPath, Inc. and earlier served as vice president, Worldwide Sales, Strategic Account Alliance Development for Advanced Micro Devices. Sara began her career with Hewlett-Packard before joining Quantum Corporation, where she held a number of roles including vice president, Marketing for the Network Attached Storage Division.

Active in the Austin community, Sara serves on the Austin Chamber of Commerce board of directors and previously served as the vice chairman of the board of directors for Girlstart from 2010 – 2016. She is an Adjunct Professor in The Bill Munday School of Business at St. Edwards University. She is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, and earned an MBA from The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

In her spare time, Sara enjoys hiking (especially with her dogs), foreign travel, and exploring new food trucks in Austin.

As leader for all of Bazaarvoice’s Research and Development efforts, Gary Allison is responsible for design, development, quality, deployment and 24×7 operations of our Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution.

Gary strongly believes in driving quality throughout the organization and fostering innovation as key pillars in building world class R&D teams. His team at Bazaarvoice embodies these values as they continually deliver innovation through cutting-edge cloud technologies to serve our clients worldwide.

Gary brings over 25 years of software engineering expertise, including more than 12 years of executive leadership along with extensive experience in delivery and operations of 24×7 enterprise class SaaS solutions. He has a passion for building exceptional engineering teams, encouraging innovation, developing leaders, and delivery of highly available solutions that delight clients.

Gary most recently led the R&D team at E2Open whose SaaS solution serves the supply chain needs of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to E2Open, Gary led all Engineering and Data Center Operations for Convio, processing over $1 billion in annual transactions. His experience also includes executive roles at software startups complimenting leadership roles at IBM.

Gary graduated magna cum laude from Texas A&M University in Computer Science, and also earned a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from the University of Houston, Clear Lake. He is active in the Austin technology community providing coaching and mentoring to startups and R&D leaders.

In his spare time, Gary enjoys physical fitness, adventures with his family, and analog therapy like restoring 60s muscle cars or motorcycling through the Texas hill country.

As General Manager, Joe leads strategy, revenue growth, and overall operations for Bazaarvoice in EMEA. Previously, Joe was SVP Client Success at Bazaarvoice, leading the global account management function to improve long term client value and retention outcomes. He initially joined the company in 2010 to grow Bazaarvoice’s first CPG Brands offering and practice.

Prior to Bazaarvoice, Joe led account management at a Procter & Gamble-owned marketing consultancy. He has consulted on digital marketing strategies with brands ranging from Pampers to Sprint to Newell Rubbermaid.

Joe holds a BA from the University of Michigan and is an avid Michigan sports fan – Go Blue!

As the Executive Vice President of Bazaarvoice Services, Kelly is responsible for leading our global strategy consulting, implementation, managed services, technical support, network and content integrity, and insights services business units. Kelly has more than 20 years of leading and growing services business units within the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market. Before joining Bazaarvoice, Kelly was Senior Vice President of Consulting and Solutions at SCS. Prior to SCS, Kelly was President and CEO of Servique, which was acquired by SCS in 2007. Previously, Kelly was Senior Vice President and General Manager for Commerce One and was Managing Director for E-commerce for IBM Global Services. Kelly started his career at KPMG and was elected to join the partnership team.

Kelly holds a B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and a juris doctorate degree from the University of Houston.