New York City, December, 13, 2021 – Kellify, a global science-company that creates and scales fast-growing businesses crafted with AI and Computer Vision, in which images and videos play a relevant role, continues its climb to success in the United States and appoints Ricky Gordon, General Manager, Digital at Vista, to its Advisory Board, with a main focus on Gradient, its ESG-focused portfolio company acting as the first AI-powered application shining light on visual communication from a D&I perspective.
Ricky Gordon is a 20-year Product veteran with leadership experience across blue chip and start-ups including FuboTV, Ticketmaster, Global Crossing, Metropolitan Police Telewest & Hutchins Telecoms. Ricky Gordon’s current role at Vista as the GM of Digital, focuses on providing Digital Products and Services to small businesses globally. Vista is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world.
Kellify has recently been selected as the #1 scaleup in Italy and one of the Europe’s 100 hottest young scaleups of 2021 by TNW, a Financial Times-backed media company.
The news comes after Kellify’s recent appointment of Raquelle Zuzarte, former Senior Marketer at Johnson & Johnson, P&G, and Washington Post, to the Board of Directors of the new US branch, and to the Advisory Board of Gradient. The newly established group of advisors will provide strategic and sustainable counsel to Kellify and to its portfolio companies in North America to reinforce exponential growth.
“We are excited to welcome Ricky Gordon to our advisory board, whose broad expertise and talent will be beneficial to helping us build and scale the best digital product fueled by AI for the Diversity and Inclusion visual representation” said Giorgia Coltella, CEO at Gradient.
“I am thrilled to be part of the Kellify and Gradient Advisory Board and to contribute to delivering their vision, I believe both my product expertise and personal experience within Diversity and Inclusion will be hugely beneficial for Kellify in achieving their goals” said Ricky Gordon.
“Selected portfolio companies have significantly advanced their lifecycle in key markets such as diversity and inclusion, martech, protech and wealth management. As these industries mature, like any industry, innovation doesn’t stop, it just moves up the chain into a new science-based execution”, said Francesco Magagnini, CEO at Kellify. “There is great value in the advisory we can receive from top-tier managers like Ricky. They have faced the vagaries of the market and can foresee unexpected challenges”.