JOHN KIRKPATRICK

Managing Director

STS Capital

A digital transformation leader, founder and CEO of an award-winning CMS digital media SaaS company, he became known as “JK” to hundreds of colleagues at 3M after an M&A event with the Fortune 500 company. As a pioneer of pragmatic digital intelligence and cognitive neuroscience decision logic in new media, JK led trans-formative programs into industry segments such as smart retail, hospitality, transportation, banking, telecom, and Adtech.

With more than 25 years’ experience as a business leader, John uses his broad expertise to help other entrepreneurial business owners navigate successful outcomes along their M&A journey, including those in IoT, Gaming, Applied AI, Health-tech, Smart Logistics, Telecommunications, IT Services, Fintech Payment-Stream Control, Hybrid Cloud and Edge Computing, Mining, and Marketing Automation.