About Us
As the developers of Knowme, a revolutionary marketing automation, sales, and customer relationship solution for small businesses, we understand the daily challenges you face. Lack of time, limited resources, and the need for each team member to wear many hats to name just a few. It's difficult to find time to prospect for new business while servicing existing customers. It's an even bigger leap to build the processes that lead to growth and reduced risk.
We saw the need for an affordable solution designed specifically to overcome these common challenges faced by small businesses. Which is why the Knowme application delivers immediate value to you by connecting you with your markets, helping you transact more business, and do the things that build lasting customer relationships.
Most importantly, we're not just a software company, we're a team of builders, thinkers and doers committed to helping your business thrive.
Leadership & Board
Boris Medak, President & CEO
Boris is an entrepreneur and innovator. He founded Knowme in 2005, and since then, has steered the company to double-digit growth and sustained profitability while connecting millions of consumers with Knowme's business customers. After immigrating to the United States in 1989, Boris joined Grgich Hills Estate where he learned to create great wine from Mike Grgich, a world-renowned winemaker. Five years later, in an attempt to eventually self-fund a winery, Boris began exporting personal computer peripherals. Dissatisfied with the high cost of hardware inventories, he set his sights on software in 2000 and created two of the first Web-based, software-as-a-service applications. Boris's life experiences, including navigating war-torn former Yugoslavia, have infused him with a profound concern for the displaced and less fortunate, especially children.
Boris obtained a BS degree from the University of Sarajevo.
Austin E. Hills, Chairman
Austin is the co-founder and current Director of Grgich Hills Estate, an award-winning winery in Napa Valley, California, and Founder and President of Hills Exploration Corp., an oil and gas research and exploration business. He is also the Founder and President of Hills Vineyard, Inc. and a co-founder and Secretary of Hills Capital Management. Formerly, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Hills Bros. Coffee, a family-owned business founded in 1878. Hills Bros. was acquired by Nestle in 1985.
Austin holds a BA degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Dan Gregerson, Director
A software industry entrepreneur and investor, Dan is currently the president of Splashpond Investors, an early-stage supporter of software and nanotechnology businesses. He co-founded Intelligent Technologies and PeerLogic, and was an investor and CEO of Mindfabric. Dan sits on the boards of Independent Means, Infrascale, and Knowme and is an advisor to the Climate Foundation and The Hertz Foundation. He holds five U.S. Patents in the area of distributed computing.
Dan obtained a BA degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Dominic Johnson, Director
Dominic's 20-year record as a business innovator and marketer is evidenced across both the media and technology sectors. In the tech arena, Dominic took Autonomy and Blinkx from start-up to publicly traded leaders in their fields (Autonomy was recently sold to HP for more than $11 billion). On the media front, Dominic has helped established brands like News Corporation and the UK's Channel 4 Television reinvent themselves for the rapidly morphing digital world. His experience in financial markets includes public transactions on the LSE, NASDAQ, DAX and AIM, as well as serving as a trend scout and advisor to leading VCs and hedge funds. Additionally, he has spearheaded successful M&A projects for publicly and privately held US and European companies.
Dominic holds a BA degree from the University College of Wales.