Kelly Ann Collins

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Bio

I am a marketing expert with a passion for social media and a former journalist who is currently the CEO of Vult Lab.

The company works with innovators, social change agents, and tech companies to bring their best ideas to the world.

As a journalist, I worked for several newspapers and the AP. Then, I made the move from print to digital when I helped launch USAToday.com - just before venturing off into the land of tech PR during the dotcom boom. During that time, I met tech giants and co-founded a VC platform.

During that time, I also I became a blogging pioneer as, some argue, the first person to put her life online in blog and cam form. When Blogger launched, I became one of its first bloggers—which meant fun perks, like my choice of Gmail address for being a Blogger / Google influencer (except the word “influencer” didn’t exist back then!).

While in college, I was the managing editor for the student-run newspaper, The Daily Athenaeum. I am only one of two college students in the U.S. who managed a paper with a $1M budget. While in college, I also freelanced for Newsweek, was a “stringer” for the Associated Press, and worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on weekends covering crime.

As a marketing and public relations consultant, I have worked on more than 1,000 projects for hundreds of clients, including the House of Representatives, USDA and The Washington Times.

I also worked as an employee to help launch AOL co-founder Steve Case’s Revolution, turned my blogging hobby into a media company, bootstrapping, launching and running a pop-politics blog with 3M monthly readers. For this venture, I gained $1.5M in funding. It was the first media website of its kind to get regular White House and presidential candidate access, taking its fans through the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election with insightful behind-the-scenes clips. Due to this, I am in the top 2% of female entrepreneurs.

Vult Lab works with brands to build their own communities. My team members and I have worked with brands you know and love, including:

•Starbucks
•HP
•United Nations
•Conservation International
•Adobe
•Jamba Juice
•Prince William’s Royal Foundation
•Results for Development
•[email protected]
•OZY
•Third Eye Blind

I also serve on several nonprofit boards, I am a Capital One ambassador, an Adobe Insider, a UN Global Compact Global Opportunity Lab participant, and a Lonely Whale (#StopSucking For A Strawless Ocean) ambassador.

Currently, Vult Lab’s partners and clients do work in 50+ countries around the globe.