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Executive Team

Executive Leadership Team

Hejong Kim

Hejong Kim

Chief Executive Officer

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Hejong Kim

Hejong Kim

Chief Executive Officer

Hejong Kim is the President and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He has long held a vision of how to deliver better business results by the smart application of leading-edge technology, combined with industry best practices, and in 2005 he and his co-founders created pureIntegration. Building, nurturing and growing the team of industry and technology experts, Hejong embodies the spirit of customer service and client success that ensures each and every customer understands the value that pureIntegration delivers. His main responsibility is to build an organization that accepts accountability from start to finish, performs exclusively in partnership with its clients, and relentlessly drives towards measurable outcomes.

Under Hejong’s leadership, pureIntegration has expanded beyond its core business and technical expertise in the Communications and High Tech industries to serving Fortune 100 clients in areas as diverse as Financial Services, and Healthcare. Hejong is responsible for ensuring that the pureIntegration team brings a consistently high level of dedication and industry expertise, along with technology leadership, to corporations in any industry. The team’s dedication and commitment, along with a track-record of results, explains a 97% customer satisfaction rating and long tenures among the pureIntegration staff where the average tenure is over 7 years.

Greg Stayin

Greg Stayin

Chief Operating Officer

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Greg Stayin

Greg Stayin

Chief Operating Officer

Greg Stayin is the Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing Operations and Accounting. With almost 30 years of consulting and management experience, Greg’s expertise includes workforce effectiveness, business transformation, strategic planning, and process excellence. As COO of pureIntegration, Greg has successfully managed over 400% company growth in revenue. Throughout this growth, Greg has overseen consistent high client satisfaction ratings averaging 97%. As a VP, he oversees account management, sales, and delivery for the Comcast account. Prior to pureIntegration, Greg was a Partner at Accenture in the Communications Media and Entertainment practice. Greg graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce with concentrations in Management Information Systems and Marketing.

Clayton LiaBraaten

Clayton LiaBraaten

Chief Commercial Officer

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Clayton LiaBraaten

Clayton LiaBraaten

Chief Commercial Officer

As Chief Commercial Officer, Clayton LiaBraaten has comprehensive growth responsibility for pureIntegration and ensures impactful engagements and mutually beneficial commercial arrangements and with customers and prospects. Clayton’s core areas of accountability include business planning and forecasting, sales & account management, GTM planning, and C-Level executive sponsorship. As our CCO, Clayton sets market strategy for the firm, provides senior leadership over the company’s 3 verticalized Business Units and is PI’s senior ‘win-win’ architect.

After an early, decorated career in operational military intelligence, Mr. LiaBraaten has served for over two decades in senior executive roles at high-tech companies like PSINet, Cox Communications, Neustar, Transaction Network Services and MicroStrategy, has been the tip of spear on multiple successful M&A transactions in the Northern Virginia tech corridor and serves on multiple tech-sector advisory boards.

Regarded as a Digital Transformation influencer and technology evangelist, Clayton’s professional passion is leading and mentoring high-performance teams in a player-coach capacity to solve intractable client problems and build durable, synergistic partnerships.

Clayton majored in Soviet/Strategic Studies and Business Management at the University of Maryland, European Division, speaks fluent Russian, and rusty but passable German. His personal passions include fatherhood, fitness and lifelong learning.

Karen Armand

Karen Armand

Vice President, Business Operations

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Karen Armand

Karen Armand

Vice President, Business Operations

Karen Diamond is the Vice President of Business Operations. As the lead of our Business Operations, Karen supports the successful scaleability of the PI organization to deliver exceptional quality while stimulating and supporting exponential growth. Responsible for our people and culture and encompassing all pieces of human capital management through design and optimization of our business processes and operations, the Business Operations team removes friction in all aspects of our organization to achieve high levels of workforce engagement, efficiency in our consulting delivery, and maintenance of our 97% satisfaction rating with our clients. Karen holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University.

Dan Ripp

Dan Ripp

Sr. Consultant Executive

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Dan Ripp

Dan Ripp

Sr. Consultant Executive

Dan Ripp is the Senior Consulting Executive, supporting Directors across the organization to uncover business opportunities related to their area of expertise. Dan has managed multiple facets of IT, Engineering & Operations for Comcast Cable Communications. During his over 26 years overseeing Traffic, Operations, Engineering, the Field Team, Master Control, IS/IT and Facilities. Dan consulted for various Telecommunications companies including David Sarnoff Labs (RCA), developing products, infrastructures and operational policies and procedures. During this time, he traveled to over 15 countries, procuring, attending, and many times, leading meetings with foreign dignitaries. Dan’s most notable achievement was the development and introduction of the first Operations Management Center (OMC) within Comcast Spotlight which is responsible for trafficking over 10 mil commercials per week. Dan and his team were the first in the country to launch all digital simulcast (ADS), and lead the way with HD Insertion.

Directors

Directors

Nick Hunter

Nick Hunter

Sr. Account Director

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Nick Hunter

Nick Hunter

Sr. Account Director

Nick Hunter focuses on leading business development and solution architecture efforts with an emphasis on Software Engineering and Video Advertising solutions. With over 25 years of consulting experience, Nick has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that provide business value to our important clients. Prior to pureIntegration, Nick was with Accenture where he built upon his technical background by taking on roles including systems architect, application development lead, and operations engineer for a variety of Communications and High-Tech clients. Nick holds a degree in Computer Science from Dickinson College.

Michael Lenze

Michael Lenze

Account Director

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Michael Lenze

Michael Lenze

Account Director

Michael Lenze is the Director of the Hybrid Cloud practice, which includes the Symphonic Cloud and LeanCloud solutions. He also works with customers in areas including cloud adoption and optimization, identity and access management, security, automation, and monitoring. With over 15 years of solutions architecture and consulting experience, Mike believes in ensuring that new technology adopted by an enterprise has clearly identified goals based on ROI. Prior to pureIntegration, Mike worked in consulting and management roles in the health-care IT space in the United States, UK, and France. Mike holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Michael LaPierre

Michael LaPierre

Account Director

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Michael LaPierre

Michael LaPierre

Account Director

Michael LaPierre is focused on Video Operations, Solutions, and Architecture efforts within MSO’s and other video providers.

With over 20 years of operations and engineering leadership in MSO’s Michael has a demonstrated record of providing innovative solutions that allow businesses to meet and exceed their goals. Prior to pureIntegration, Michael worked for Time Warner Cable & Charter Cable where he held roles in division, regional, and corporate engineering leadership. Additionally, Michael worked for Corning Optical and Broadcom in sr. engineering and architecture roles.

Michael holds a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Management from Roberts Wesleyan College and a master’s degree in Organizational Development and Leadership from Saint Joseph’s University.

Gene Vo

Gene Vo

Controller

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Gene Vo

Gene Vo

Controller

Gene Vo leads the Accounting and Finance department, handling a range of financial matters, including treasury, budgeting/forecasting, taxes, government compliance, and financial reporting. Gene has over 22 years of experience within global publicly traded companies managing acquisitions, integrations, crisis management, restructuring, system implementations, SEC reporting, and investor and board relationship management. Prior to joining pureIntegration, Gene worked across multiple industries, including publishing, entertainment, hospitality, real estate, SaaS, and government contracting. Gene is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a BS in Accounting and is an active CPA.

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Matthew Cohen

Consulting Director

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Matthew Cohen

Consulting Director

Matthew Cohen is a highly professional Consulting Director with over 15 years of experience developing strategies for new product technologies, improving customer experiences, managing roll-outs of systems, and growing lines of business. With deep expertise in operational optimization, Matt’s focus has been on identifying opportunities throughout the Product Development Life Cycle in order to design and enhance solutions. Using business-driven objectives, he has implemented system and process improvements across a variety of verticals, including Ad Tech, Multifamily (MDU) WiFi, Mobile App Development and eCommerce. Matt holds a degree in Information & Systems Engineering from Lehigh University.

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Akash Patel

Consulting Director

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Akash Patel

Consulting Director

Akash Patel offers over 18 years of experience and brings capability maturity experience in areas such as Application Architecture Rationalization, Cloud Delivery Models, Operational Processes, and Organizational Change. He collaborates and partners with clients to architect strategic solutions, elevating the customer experience and accelerating ROI. Akash leverages technical and business depth in both the private and public sectors within a variety of industries, including Telecommunication, Media, High-Tech, Healthcare, Financial, and Retail. He embraces his craft with a Master of Engineering in Telecommunication and Networking Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Computer Systems Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Jeff Puzenski

Account Director

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Jeff Puzenski

Account Director

Jeff brings over 20 years of consulting leadership, most recently as Managing Partner - North America, Communications and Media Consulting at Wipro.  Prior to Wipro, Jeff served as Vice President of Strategic Accounts for Pariveda Solutions as well as the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Market Lead for Infinitive, a management consultancy.  In these roles, Jeff has responsibility for growth of a diverse portfolio of TMT.  Prior to Infinitive, Jeff was a Senior Manager at Accenture supporting their Communications and Technology group and holds an MIS degree from Virginia Tech.

Throughout his years of experience, Jeff has had the opportunity to help define, plan, and execute new visions for many of the world’s leading companies. This includes helping our nation’s largest media companies adapt to an entirely new business model: direct-to-consumer video streaming. As well as supporting the evolution of advertising from traditional mediums to the digital age. Jeff has also supported leading communications providers plan, design and rollout next generation network services.

Based in Northern Virginia, Jeff lives with his wonderful wife Meredith, three children: Kaitlyn, Ally and Luke and two tiny dogs: Moose and Maizy. When not coaching or cheering on the latest basketball or volleyball game, you can find Jeff laughing alongside friends and family.

Please join me in welcoming Jeff to our team and wishing him continued success here at pureIntegration!

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