Public markets
Kaspien · Nasdaq: KSPN · CEO 2019–2022
$2 → $52
Share price
Reversed a 28% revenue decline into 20%+ growth, with four consecutive profitable quarters.
Read case studyThree-time CEO · Board chairman
Every company I've run was analog when I got there.
Three CEO seats — public markets, private equity, venture. The same job each time: turn an analog business into a technology company. I'm doing it again with AI, and writing about what that changes.
Nasdaq-listed CEOPE platform transformation0-to-1 AI-native founderBoard chairmanAmazon · Microsoft34 countries launched
The three chairs
Transformation across ownership models.
Private equity
Beckett · PE-backed · CEO 2022–2023
10x → 25x
EBITDA multiple
Roughly $40M of SaaS ARR built; recurring revenue mix from 5% to over 20%.
Read case studyVenture
Certivo · CEO 2024–Present
$6.3M
Raised · Backed by Fortive
AI-native from the first line, with a strategic investor from the industrial sector it serves.
Read case study$270M+ raised across debt and equity · 5 acquisitions · Amazon, Microsoft, Groupon and Unikrn before that.
Core point of view
AI will reorganize the industrial enterprise — not simply automate its tasks.
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AI and industrial transformation
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Product, data, compliance, and supply-chain intelligence
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Building technology companies through change
Featured insights
Ideas from the work in progress.
Shift AI Podcast
AI Agents as the Newest Members of the Team
How AI agents are evolving from assistants into teammates and automating product compliance for manufacturers.
Explore insightAI features and AI-native are not the same thing.
Systems where AI does the work, not just assists with it.
Explore insightForbes Technology Council
Hallucinations: Why You Might Be Using The Wrong Kind Of AI
Generative and deterministic AI are built for different work. In regulated environments, a system that can fabricate a plausible answer is the wrong kind of system.
Explore insightCurrent work
Building the intelligence layer for product compliance.
CEO · Certivo · 2024–Present
Building Certivo, an AI-native platform helping manufacturers transform product compliance from a manual process into an intelligent operating system.
Selected engagements
A practical voice for consequential moments.
Board and governance background is set out on the board page. For anything else, email kunal@kunal-chopra.com.