About Us

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KZO Innovations’ founders have been innovators

in online video technology and the practical application of it for more than 15 years. In recent years, as advances in all related technology fronts have come together with changing human behavior and expectations around on-demand video, KZO has been leading the way in delivering unprecedented enterprise video solutions to commercial and government markets around the world.

KZO pioneered integrating user engagement with video

to enable new approaches for enterprise video solutions to drive effectiveness, and efficiencies, in training and education, enterprise communication, and collaborative analytics applications.

KZO is enhancing video to make it accessible across the Enterprise

which enables all users to create, manage and distribute video content through any enterprise application. This seamless integration of video allows the enterprise to realize the benefits of on-demand video without the customized development required with other enterprise video platforms.

The KZO team would welcome the opportunity to understand your challenges and see how we can work together to apply our technology and expertise in enterprise video solutions to help you accomplish your mission and goals.

 

Contact Us

World Headquarters:
KZO Innovations
12100 Sunset Hills Road Suite 100
Reston, VA 20190
703-634-9386

Management Team

Wes Cruver

Chairman & CEO

Having just hit 30, Wes is already well on his way with his second generation of successful companies, having started his first material business venture at age 11, and growing it into a multi-faceted global non-profit. It was there that he developed 16 years of domain expertise in training and video technology. Subsequently, Wes co-founded KZO, and is pioneering and delivering advanced video collaboration technologies with customers in global commercial markets, as well as the government, including the Department of Defense, DHS and US Intelligence Agencies. He has been the recipient of numerous “30 under 30” awards, and placed into the Circle of Excellence by Smart CEO magazine.

Jeff Fissel

Vice President, Solutions / Co-Founder

Co-Founded KZO and oversees the Solutions Organization that develops and deploys customized solutions and implementations of the KZO Platform with commercial and government customers. Recognized as an expert in streaming media technologies, Jeff also leads KZO’s interoperability initiatives, ensuring the company’s industry leadership position working with other communication, collaboration and LMS systems. Previously Jeff founded a webcasting company producing hundreds of global video productions over a 5 year period.

Brian Kelly

Vice President, Sales

Responsible for leading all revenue related activities for KZO including marketing, large account sales and partner development/sales. He has 17 years of experience of building and generating revenue through both direct sales and partner sales programs. Prior to joining the KZO team, he developed and led key revenue generating programs for Vettro, a leading enterprise mobility company. Before Vettro, Brian held several leadership positions at VeriSign, a $1.7B public company, focusing on new business development and sales while expanding VeriSign’s direct sales activities in the Asia Pacific region.

Scot Edwards

Managing Director, Defense, Intelligence & Security

Jodi Wilkinson

Vice President, Products / Co-Founder

Oscar Navarro

Co-Founder

Steve Mullins

Chief Financial Officer

An experienced CFO who has served in entrepreneurial environments and helped build companies over the past 15 years. He served as the CFO of a NASDAQ traded company, and successfully engineered the sale of a company to a $4B NYSE company. In addition he has been a CFO of companies in the wireless entertainment space, a network security provider and a consumer electronics reseller. He has extensive M&A experience in public and private company arenas, having sold or acquired over 10 different entities. He has helped raise capital for multiple companies, totaling over $130 million in outside investment. Steve has also co-founded several companies in the finance space. He was appointed by the Governor to the Board of Visitors of George Mason University where he serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Finance and Land Use Committee

Careers

Account Executive

KZO Innovations is looking for a high energy, self-motivated individual with 1 to 3 years of experience in technology based sales to join our fast-paced team of professionals. Reporting to the VP of Sales, the Sales Professional is responsible for executing many of the day-to-day sales programs including: prospecting & qualification, sales analysis, lead generation and discovery calls.

Software Engineer (Front End)

KZO Innovations’ cutting edge video platform brings the power of social collaboration to enterprise video. KZO Innovations, an exciting and rapidly growing company is looking for Software Engineers who love creating an amazing user experience. If you fit the bill, and live within commuting distance to the Reston, VA area, please read on!

We use a variety of technologies in our software, including PHP, Java, MySQL, Redis, and Backbone.js. You won’t need experience with all the technologies, but you should be comfortable with front-end development.

Software Engineer (Full Stack)

KZO Innovations’ cutting edge video platform brings the power of social collaboration to enterprise video. KZO Innovations, an exciting and rapidly growing company is looking for Software Engineers comfortable with operating on the entire technology stack. If you fit the bill, and live within commuting distance to the Reston, VA area, please read on!

We use a variety of technologies in our software, including PHP, Java, MySQL, Redis, and Backbone.js. You won’t need experience with all the technologies, but you should be comfortable with both back-end and front-end development.