Gerry Kiley

Gerry Kiley has In-depth experience leading business, product and service development and its people and teams from concept through launch in private and public, B2B, B2C and Federal/State regulatory settings; as both employee, investor and consultant, in numerous innovative technology businesses, industries and difficult geographies.

Operations Strategy, Establishment and Optimization

As VP of Global Operations for Sapient Corp., Nasdaq: SAPE www.sapient.com Gerry Kiley was Sapient’s 6th employee and responsible for establishing, managing & scaling all business operations infrastructure, client and administrative support services into 8 countries, 20 cites, 26 offices; from 10 to 3,5000 employees and from $1M through $500M in revenues in nine years.

Today Sapient is a 1.3B company with over 10,000 employees and global leader in Technology and Interactive Marketing Services and is recognized as one of the most successful start-up technology company’s in US public market history.

Facilitation, Best Practices, Process & Change Management

Sapient Corp., Nasdaq: SAPE www.sapient.com is renown for hiring the worlds best talent and then making it better by providing rigorous and constant employee development training in leadership, project/ process and change management, communications, negotiation, sales and HCM.

Business Start-Up’s

Special expertise in all facets of establishing and growing new businesses. Gerry has contributed to and played many roles, in a few dozen start-ups over the past 20 years.

Offshoring, Outsourcing & Nearshoring

Extensive expertise with leading USA Technology and Professional Services firms doing business in S.E. Asia, India, China and Europe.

Global Commercial Real Estate Transaction, Construction & Project Management
Promethean led construction & business expansion projects cost less & are delivered faster. Ask us why. Gerry has advised and led real estate and facility improvement initiatives for numerous high-growth IPO bound technology companies.

In-depth cross-functional experience conceiving strategies & implementing its plans & processes. Selected product options & negotiated $200M in global commercial leasing; led design phase and delivered over 65 commercial construction and tenant fit out projects totaling 1,500,000 s.f. of IT & Professional Services workspace in 30 cities & 18 countries.

Global Talent Acquisition, Teaming & Management

In a 24 month stint as GM of India for a silicon valley technology start-up, Mr. Kiley led a testing & evaluation program (personality-skills-aptitude) of over 150,000 technology engineers in India & S.E. Asia. Established and led hiring processes & customer engagements which on-boarded over 3,200 software engineers with top global IT and ITES company’s including: Technology (Oracle, SAP, HCL); Professional Services (Accenture, Sapient) and BPO’s (Convergys, Infosys).

High Performance Teaming

Promethean uses proven cross-industry/cross-cultural methodologies and best practices to unlock the latent potential in every employee, while improving behaviors, accountabilities and results; essential elements in building high performance teams.

Product Development and Commercialization

Gerry Kiley conceived, designed and developed all aspects of an innovative new-to market disinfection and deodorization product line; as well as its regulatory, market and application strategies, online and material representations and successful launch into numerous US commercial and retail sales channels (www.resetstore.com) and international Crises Zones (www.beachheadstore.org).

Gerry has also successfully marketed and sold numerous new-to-market Technology, Software and Management Services in the United States, India and China, while representing Silicon Valley based technology companies.

Not-For-Profit and Humanitarian Aid

Gerry Kiley founded Beachhead International, a volunteer, not-for-profit dedicated to providing Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WaSH) solutions to the Western hemisphere’s poorest children after the devastating 2010 Haiti Earthquake.

Since 2010, Gerry Kiley has developed, produced, donated & personally delivered over 500,000 gallons of chlorine dioxide (ClO2) Disinfectant to Port-au-Prince Haiti orphanages & church groups, touching the lives of roughly 2,000 children and vastly improving the health of all. Mr. Kiley has self funded all aspects of his Beachhead International charity. (www.beachheadinternational.org).

Collegiate & Professional Ice Hockey

Gerry played collegiate hockey for NHL Boston Bruin Hockey Hall of Fame’r Fern Flaman at Hockey East’s Northeastern University; and was a member of an ECL championship professional minor league hockey team for now NHL Stanley Cup and Silver Olympic medal winning coach John Torttorella.