Kate Burda
CEO/Founder of Kate Burda & Co.
A little bit about Kate…
Kate Burda is the CEO and founder of consulting firm Kate Burda & Co, which leads revenue performance and growth strategies for organizations, large multi-national brands, owners, and investors. Through the “revenue trifecta” of sales, digital marketing, and price modeling, many of Kate’s clients have enjoyed 25 percent growth in revenue gains through her work.
Working with companies from startups to exit strategy, financial downturns, and shifts within the marketplace over her nearly 30 years of experience, Kate has advised some of the world’s leading companies, such as Goldman Sachs, Brookfield, Abbott, Boehringer Ingelheim, Ricoh, Marriott International, Hilton, Loews Hotels, IHG and more. She has worked for multi-national firms in leading sales, marketing, and revenue management / pricing teams at the executive level.
Kate has brought thought leadership within marketing strategies within branding, awareness marketing in the digital space, as well as creating methodology in effective targeted marketing to your most valuable customer segments. She has led and developed strategy in working with teams to create a revenue roadmap and how to engage commercial teams to effectively achieve that future vision.
Recently they have just launched IGNITE, a SaaS program, that enables companies to create a revenue pathway and connect teams to goals and strategies.
As an industry leader, Kate is a Think Tank member of the Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses for Fairleigh Dickinson University and Purdue University System teaching Revenue Management and Distribution, Global Marketing and Digital Marketing. Her memberships include Boutique Lifestyle Leaders Association (BLLA), International Society of Hotel Consultants (ISHC), Kate has spoken at Chesapeake Hospitality Summit, Hunter Conference, Hotel Asset Manager Association 2020 Summit, and more. She earned her MBA at University of Colorado and currently lives in Dallas.