About Us
Klever Marketing is using mobile technology to revolutionize the grocery shopping experience.
Klever Marketing has been a leader in producing in store marketing solutions since 1996. Since 2009 Klever has transitioned its technology solution to allow consumers, retailers and product suppliers to connect via a mobile marketing platform.
Our Team
Paul G. Begum Chief Executive Officer and President
Paul G. Begum is the company founder, and has served as president and CEO for most of the company’s 15-year history. He is a true entrepreneur, having successfully developed and brought to market several major products and companies. He provides daily oversight to Klever company development and provides guidance to the project team.
Robert Campbell Chief Operating Officer and Acting Chief Financial Officer
Bob is responsible for company operations and financial performance, and under the direction of Paul, oversees the operations of the company. Bob is an experienced executive with 35 years experience running multi-million dollar time critical development programs. He is thoroughly experienced with all aspects of program and systems development, including financial controls, program scheduling and control, engineering design management, contract management and technical systems development.
Tony Begum Chief Technical Architect
Tony is responsible for the technical direction of the company and for development of its products. As such he directs the day to day activities of the Klever Marketing team and is also a part of the executive staff. Tony’s experience as a senior business manager and solutions architect spans over 20 years working with Fortune 500 companies in a wide variety of business applications. In 1994 Tony started the largest ISP in Utah (Utah Wired), which he sold in 1998.
Art Portugal Sales
Art is a food industry veteran with 20+ years professional marketing background in sales, merchandising and client service. Art brings with him more than 20 years experience in the retail merchandising and marketing industries, and a background with a strong emphasis in sales, customer management and operations. Previously, Art served as the EVP for the PIA Merchandising Company. Additionally he was Vice President at Storecast Merchandising Corp, a retail merchandising company, and President of Fieldflex, USA, a third party re-set and in-store merchandising company.
Daron Johnson Technology Development
Daron oversees Klever’s development teams based in San Diego, Italy and India. Daron is an innovative and visionary IT strategist with 15 years of global leadership experience in complex information technology and customer facing roles with an added entrepreneurial spirit. Previously Daron was CTO for Smish and Turbulin Corporation, and served as the Director of Product Development and DialResults.
Chris Marocchi Marketing and Sales Planning
Chris oversees Klever’s strategic marketing plans and all web, social media and public relations activities. Chris brings over 15 Years of marketing leadership experience to Klever Marketing. Chris holds an MBA from CSU-Hayward and is Six Sigma Greenbelt and Pragmatic Marketing certified. Previously Chris held the position of VP of Product Development and Management for the UPS Stores and was Director of Product Management for CB Richard Ellis. Chris has also held various positions in brand and consumer promotions management with CPG companies.
John Smrekar Retail Business Development
John is responsible for developing and maintaining the Company’s retail business and has spent the past 15 years in retail consulting, working with leading US retailers including HEB, Wegmans, Safeway, Raley’s & Save Mart. John’s prior experience includes 20 years of work with a major West Coast retailer, category management director for national merchandising company, IRI sales development for Apollo Space Management and InfoScan data usage, and managing a west-coast field service organization for a national in-store Advertising company.
Steve Wilt Product Innovation
Steve is founder and president of Innovus, a consulting firm focused on business innovation and change who has assisted Klever with the creation and development of its mobile products. Steve is a forward-looking, far reaching thinker who helps companies such as Klever envision the far-reaching potential of it’s product line. He is a senior executive with demonstrated success designing, building and leading high performance organizations to achieve significant ‘top-to-bottom-line’ revenues and profit gains. As a thought-leader, authored Functional Thinking and built The Mechanism™ as pioneering approaches to business innovation, transformation and organizational change. Steve was previously an EVP at Fujitsu Consulting and VP at Netigy.
Investors
Klever Marketing, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: KLMK) is a publicly traded company based in Laguna Niguel, CA. For more information, see our Press page or contact our CEO, Paul G. Begum at pgbegum@klevermarketing.com.
To see Klever Marketing Inc.’s financials, please visit: SEC Financials.