Gavin Finn

Professor of the Practice, Tufts Gordon Institute; CEO, KAON Interactive
Courses:  ENT105.02 Entrepreneurial Marketing, ENT151 Entrepreneurship for Computer Science

Gavin Finn is President & CEO of Kaon Interactive, a profitable, high growth B2B software company. He has led the successful transformation of the company’s business model, technology platform development, and dynamic marketing strategies. Kaon’s Global 1000 customers use the company’s solutions to elevate business performance through increases in sales effectiveness and marketing efficiency. Gavin is an advisor to, and investor in, several startup companies, and has been a lead mentor for the World Bank’s XL Africa startup program.

Prior to joining Kaon, Gavin served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Bluestreak, Inc., an Internet advertising and marketing infrastructure software company, and led the company through four acquisitions and organic growth resulting in a profitable, high-growth business. Prior to Bluestreak, Gavin was President and Chief Executive Officer of Prescient Technologies, Inc., a software company that provided engineering data quality solutions for engineering and manufacturing companies in the aerospace, automotive, and, heavy industrial markets. Gavin holds a Ph.D. in Computer-Aided-Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Structural Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University.