Empowering the Insurance Industry's Distributed Sales and Marketing Teams

Kelly Owen Grover is a cross-functional go-to-market growth strategist, currently leading growth efforts across three global business units at Acoustic. With almost twenty years of experience, Kelly has held sales, business development, partnership, new venture, and marketing roles at multiple international companies. She specializes in translating aspirational company goals into an actionable go to market strategy, extending far beyond the customer-facing team and connecting financial growth with elevating customer value.

Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Evans career has spanned several industries and continents. Starting as an audio engineer recording and producing rock albums, becoming the Director of Marketing for a Las Vegas production company, venturing into the entrepreneurial world of digital agency owner to landing up as the co-founder of SmarterSends, a next-gen Saas distributed marketing platform.

Having worked with companies such as Chase, Pitney Bowes, Ticketmaster, Kentucky Derby, Proctor & Gamble, and Thrivent Financial (to name but a few), Evans knowledge and experience of digital, email and distributed marketing has been honed over 25 years of in-the-trenches training.

 

Evan is an avid reader of all things Chris Moore, Mark Manson and Brene Brown and he spends at least an hour day noodling around on one of his many guitars.

Originally from Southern California, Sam has been innovating and providing clients with technology based software and services for over 25 years. With an innate ability to identify solutions to both internal and external business challenges, Sam has developed multiple software products and platforms that have enabled companies to operate more efficiently, market themselves in unique ways and realize significate revenue gains.

 

Sam's experience in the distributed email marketing space extends back almost 15 years when he developed his first distributed marketing platform. Since that time, clients like Hard Rock Cafe, Pitney Bowes, Ticketmaster, Thrivent Financial, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and many more have sent literally billions of marketing emails and have generated millions of dollars in revenue.

 

Currently located in Atlanta, GA, Sam frequently can be found working behind his keyboard on mountain tops, beside pristine lakes and on beach fronts as he explores the wild places across North America.