"For me, innovation is about delivering a solution that will propel our clients to new levels of success. Shopping today is as much about the user experience as it is about the product. The technology behind CTS Platform can bring every brand story to life across all channels.”

Allen Kung is CEO and Founder of Commerce Technology Solutions (CTS). He co-founded CREATETHE GROUP with James Gardner, and was Chief Technology Officer until 2011. Allen and James Gardner launched CTS Platform in 2006 to pioneer a fundamentally different approach to digital commerce. Together, they were on the forefront of dramatic change in the e-commerce industry, merging world-class technology with rich creativity that achieves dramatic results for their clients.

With CTS Platform, Allen has pioneered a vision for creating a next-generation digital commerce platform that would replace traditional solutions, by merging the powerful capabilities of cloud-computing with the developer tools needed to deliver cost-efficient customization. Allen has over 17 years of entrepreneurial, software, and e-commerce leadership, including managing the rollout of enterprise-wide systems for Fortune 100 companies at Publicis' Arc Worldwide.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard, and is a 77th direct descendent of Confucius.

As Chief Technology Officer, Naveen Gunti works closely with CTS leadership to drive continuous product innovation and to grow the global adoption of the platform. Naveen has deep roots in both the technology and digital markets, bringing his business-savvy technology expertise to Fortune 100 clients across Asia, Europe and North America.

Prior to joining CTS, Naveen held leadership roles at Razorfish, Rosetta and Sapient. Throughtout his 20-year career, he has led and managed clients through the process of managing and deploying multi-channel commerce platforms, B2B applications and enterprise level content management solutions.

Naveen holds a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering with Honors. His interests include developing artificial intelligence tools for software engineering, expert systems and neural networks, distributed computing and messaging systems. He has authored papers and is a frequent speaker in user groups and conferences.

Lisle Holgate is a 20 year veteran of enterprise software, with 8 years of direct commerce experience. He leads the development of overall business strategy and solutions offerings for CTS Platform, a leader in the fast-growing, multi-channel commerce space. Additionally, he also spearheads the development of alliances relationships with global channel partners and digital providers.

Prior to joining CTS Platform, Lisle served as Director of Product Marketing for RedPrairie’s Enterprise Workforce Management solution, across both the retail and supply chain markets.

Prior to that, he served as Director of Partner Solutions Marketing for Art Technology Group (ATG, now Oracle), where he worked closely with Tier 1 systems integrators and channel partners including Sapient, CGI, and Accenture.

Mark Trumpbour is an Information Technology executive with 14+ years of technology management experience and consistent success in achieving revenue, cost, productivity, and delivery goals.

Mark was most recently CTO at Graphient where his official role was to facilitate the development of their flagship product, Timebinder, a sophisticated data visualization
software package. Prior to Graphient, Mark was Director of Operations at Carbon Consulting group where he oversaw core business and operational development functions, supervising a staff of 40 including direct operations to support multimillion-dollar contracts with Fortune 500 clients.

Mark attended Carnegie Mellon University and also holds a degree in Information Systems Management from New York University.

As Chief Architect, Josh oversees CTS Platform's core SaaS / Developer platform framework design and application architecture. He is an expert in multi-tenant SaaS application design and in enterprise CMS and Commerce-enabled application stacks.

Josh has over 20 years of software architect experience having served as Principle Architect at the Knot.com where he developed the digital framework architecture serving millions of visitors. Prior to the Knot.com, he was a lead engineer at successful software companies including Exceed / Hummingbird.