Ken Cauley

Ken is a seasoned start-up entrepreneur with a wide array of professional experiences and accomplishments. Starting his entrepreneurial journey at an early age, Ken spent his teens and early twenties creating and scaling Advanced Media, an online media voice themed around video games and entertainment. At its peak, the company enjoyed worldwide credibility and was home to over 1 million unique visitors a month. In 2010, Ken successfully sold his media network to take the next steps in his professional life journey. In the following years, Ken created Konnected; a successful and quickly growing company in the online advertising industry. In 2016, Konnected was named number 91 on the INC 500 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. Built and scaled form the ground up, Konnected collaborated with industry leading brands on both the buy and sell side, monetizing hundreds of millions of monthly advertising impressions. Recognizing the trend of consolidation and maturity in the online advertising industry, Ken successfully exited to focus on new opportunities. In recent years, Ken has invested time and capital into dozens of big ideas and start-up ventures in a wide variety of industries. His roles ranged from silent investor to active partner to strategic mentor, matchmaker, or board member. Along the way, Ken has acquired meaningful experience as a successful advisor and consultant and has developed a deep and wide array of professional relationships. While experienced in all aspects of start-up and high-growth companies, Ken has a unique ability for vision and strategy and loves to network and build meaningful relationships. His grit and dedication to ongoing growth and helped Ken in building several multi-million-dollar companies before the age of 30 and get recognized in various local, state and national professional awards such as ‘Twenty in their 20s’ and ‘Thirty in their 30s’. Outside of business, Ken is involved in supporting various associations and charitable organizations including, but not limited to, holding the position of Executive Director of The Green Way Outdoors Youth Camp; a non-profit organization created to promote western heritage through hunting and fishing opportunities and education offered to America’s underserved youth.