Cargo Chief CEO and leadership

Technology executive with extensive experience in leading product marketing, marketing, business development, sales and general management. Have successfully researched, managed development, launched, marketed and sold services and products into the cloud, mobile, unified communications, tech enabled service and consumer electronics markets.Functional expertise:• Strategy: Business/segment planning, competition, modeling, scenario analysis and coordination• Product Management: Scoping, assessing, orchestrating, launching, engineering and operations• Marketing: Go to market, channel growth, programs and promotions, online presence and initiatives• Business Development: Opening new channels, forecasting, closing, partner/alliance accelerationCurrently CEO of Cargo Chief, which is reinventing freight brokering from an unique combination of proprietary technology and hundreds of years of industry experience.Summary Business Results:• Cisco: UCaaS, TPaaS, mobile and rental financing strategic business development• Cisco: Mid-Market communication platforms, led 200% Y/Y growth to $250M+• Presto: Grew the customer account base by 200% within eight months• Clearvox: Founding CEO, pioneered the market for headsets for mobile phones, won Best Buy, 1MU+• Adaptec: Managed the growth of a $50M channel products business to over $100M• Startups: Led 13 rounds of early stage fundraising, closing over 100 investor checks

Kirk Franzen is a Co-Founder & CTO at Cargo Chief the freight broker (former) and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Board Member at Wimberley Academic Excellence Scholarship; Lead Engineer, Database Architect at Tealeaf; and Lead Developer at INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. Kirk works or has worked as Founder, VP of Engineering at Cargo Chief. He attended Texas A&M University between 1993 and 1997.

Technology executive with extensive experience in leading product marketing, marketing, business development, sales and general management. Have successfully researched, managed development, launched, marketed and sold services and products into the cloud, mobile, unified communications, tech enabled service and consumer electronics markets.Functional expertise:• Strategy: Business/segment planning, competition, modeling, scenario analysis and coordination• Product Management: Scoping, assessing, orchestrating, launching, engineering and operations• Marketing: Go to market, channel growth, programs and promotions, online presence and initiatives• Business Development: Opening new channels, forecasting, closing, partner/alliance accelerationCurrently CEO of Cargo Chief, which is reinventing freight brokering from an unique combination of proprietary technology and hundreds of years of industry experience.Summary Business Results:• Cisco: UCaaS, TPaaS, mobile and rental financing strategic business development• Cisco: Mid-Market communication platforms, led 200% Y/Y growth to $250M+• Presto: Grew the customer account base by 200% within eight months• Clearvox: Founding CEO, pioneered the market for headsets for mobile phones, won Best Buy, 1MU+• Adaptec: Managed the growth of a $50M channel products business to over $100M• Startups: Led 13 rounds of early stage fundraising, closing over 100 investor checks

Kirk Franzen is a Co-Founder & CTO at Cargo Chief the freight broker (former) and is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked as Board Member at Wimberley Academic Excellence Scholarship; Lead Engineer, Database Architect at Tealeaf; and Lead Developer at INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. Kirk works or has worked as Founder, VP of Engineering at Cargo Chief. He attended Texas A&M University between 1993 and 1997.