Karl Joseph Ufert
Co-Founder, President and Principal Partner
Karl Ufert is a marketing and business development strategist, and a writer and multimedia producer, with two decades of experience in corporate and public sector settings. He was most recently Vice President of Marketing and Sales for VFinity, a cutting-edge New York, Taipei, and Beijing-based video software company. While at VFinity, he launched the company’s first international marketing and branding platform, closed their first major U.S. enterprise software sale, identified and helped to recruit their Chief Technology Officer, and attracted private investors and Advisory Board members.
Prior to this, Mr. Ufert was Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development for AMC Computer Corp., a leading New York technology solutions provider and systems integrator. He built AMC’s first comprehensive marketing program, produced major annual events for the company, directed a lead generation team to triple-digit increases in sales appointment volume for senior sales executives, managed relationships with the marketing arms of nearly 600 of AMC’s IT vendor partners and distributors (including Microsoft, IBM, HP, Sun, EMC, Cisco, Oracle, Network Appliance, Ingram Micro, Arrow/MOCA, Synnex, and more), and served, in-tandem, as Director of the company’s first consulting Program Management office.
Previously, Mr. Ufert was a Principal Consultant – product development, marketing and implementation – for Oracle Corporation’s worldwide Services Industries Group, and served in marketing, technology, and administrative positions at Columbia University, New York University, and the McGraw-Hill Companies.
Mr. Ufert completed his Master of Arts thesis in the English Department of the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing at the City College of New York, CUNY. He is also Co-Founder and Principal of iluren.com.
