Kyle Nelson
Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Snappt
Kyle Nelson
Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Snappt
San Diego, California
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President of Corporate Strategy
2024 - Current
As Vice President of Corporate Strategy, I ensure the execution of the CEO’s vision across all departments throughout the organization. I am directly responsible for driving the company’s strategy framework (formulation, implementation and ongoing refinement) inclusive of sensing and interpreting market shifts, driving the company’s most strategic partnerships, and ensuring alignment and focus on the company's most important initiatives. Snappt is changing the way rental housing addresses applicant fraud detection and verification of income. Our AI-enabled fraud detection technology identifies fraudulent financial documents other tenant screening tools ignore. Applicants are falsifying financial documents like paystubs and bank statements and submitting them in their applications. In fact, 1 in 8 (12%) rental housing applications contains some type of fraud; Snappt stops this fraud at the door.
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
2022 - 2024
As the 23rd employee at Snappt, my charter as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships was to build out a team focused on strategic partnerships via API integrations through our reseller marketplace. We embed our software in the application workflow to assist our partners and their end-user customers across North America.
Executive Member
2023
Pavilion is a private membership organization for commercial growth operators. Our Membership consists leaders from Sales, Marketing, and Operations. We have chapters in New York, London, Denver, Boston, Toronto, Indianapolis, and Amsterdam and will be expanding to most cities in the world over the next 18-24 months. Our membership includes executives from companies such as Facebook, Greenhouse, CB Insights, Namely, Drift, Catalant, Vend, Rogers Communications, Lyft, Shopkeep, Intralinks, WeWork, and many more. Our community is designed to support the professional development of revenue leaders at high growth companies, facilitate the sharing of best practices, and serve as a trusted private community where Members can openly discuss business critical issues with the comfort of privacy and confidentiality.
Limited Partner
2022
Mana Ventures is a San Francisco based VC firm that invests in early stage companies disrupting traditional industries and building the future of frontier technologies.
Venture Partner
2021
Interlock Capital is a community of founders, investors, and subject matter experts that find, evaluate, fund, and support emerging companies based in Southern California. About Interlock Capital: • 225 - number of Venture Partners that are investing with Interlock Capital • $3.2M - amount of capital deployed across 16 companies • 1.3 months - time between each investment made Investments: • Impossible Foods - Secondary Round • MicroAcquire - Seed+ Round • Sharp Sports iO - Pre-seed Round
Advisor & Investor, Seed Round
2019
The Rentgrata platform builds community and increases lead conversion for property management companies by connecting prospective renters with current residents of apartment communities. Rentgrata is the first of it's kind web application designed to reward residents for finding an apartment. When moving to a new city, new neighborhood, or even just a new building, you are going to have some questions. Why not ask someone who lives there?
Client Director, Global Enterprise - High Tech
2021 - 2022
Gartner is the world's leading research and advisory services company, operating in over 100 countries around the world. We equip IT and business leaders with indispensable insights and tools to achieve their mission-critical priorities and build the successful organizations of tomorrow. I focus on partnering with and empowering senior IT leaders within the CIO organization of Global High Tech companies based in Silicon Valley, California and abroad. PERFORMANCE: 2021 Winners Circle Achiever; finished 141% to quota, $2.14M net revenue booked including $788K of contract growth. 2021 Global Enterprise High Tech Behavior Award recipient. 2022 Winners Circle Achiever; qualified in May 2022. 2022 Q1 Global Top Achiever for contract growth ($1.1M).
Senior Account Executive, Large Enterprise - Healthcare
2019 - 2021
Worked with and advised senior IT executives across The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and various subsidiary Blue Cross Blue Shield brands to formulate a strong business and technology strategy. I spanned multiple internal business functions with Gartner including advisory services, consulting and conferences with quota carrying responsibility in excess of $2 million. PERFORMANCE: 2019 Winners Circle Achiever; finished 294% to quota. Ranked in Global Top 10 for performance among Sales New Hires for 2019 (out of 300+).
Venture Partner
2022 - 2022
Forum Ventures is a leading early-stage fund, program and community for B2B SaaS startups. Founded in 2014 as Acceleprise, Forum is on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible and successful for early-stage founders, through pre-seed and seed-stage funding, high touch programming, corporate perks and introductions, and an active SaaS community. Forum Ventures elected to disband the Alpha Cohort of its Venture Partner Program in May 2022.
Investor, Seed Round, Seed II Round
2018 - 2021
Acquired by Spruce, August 2021 Establishing itself as the fastest growing on-demand luxury housekeeping company in the country, The Minte is rapidly becoming the gold standard in hotel-style services. From Chicago to Washington D.C., our team has blended service and technology to delivery exceptional experiences in more than 60,000 apartment homes and counting. Our housekeepers are dedicated to their own properties, ensuring residents always come home happy.
Investor, Seed Round
2016 - 2019
Acquired by Valet Living, July 2019 WasteRetriever combines extensive years of multifamily and waste experience to bring the leading service offering in doorstep trash removal and recycling. Our execution of the highest level of customer service by skilled professionals, technology enabled service and a focus on sustainable solutions provides communities an unparalleled offering.
Senior Channel Executive, Specialized Partners
2018 - 2019
Responsible for all Specialized Partners with a property management or credit health focus. Directly responsible for a revenue quota of over $9 million across a client base located throughout the United States and Canada. This role focused on new revenue driving opportunities through partnerships, cobrands, and indirect relationships with emerging FinTech startups. PERFORMANCE: Three consecutive quarters of overachievement (104% - 106%) to plan through FY2019 (Q1 – Q3). Expanded current client renewal TCV 15% over 12-month time period