Kneko Burney
CEO & Chief Creative
Kneko Burney is a serial entrepreneur. She is one of the leading B2B experts for the telecom and high-tech industries, as well as an emerging figure in the intersection of digital technology and everyday life. As founder & CEO of Change3 Enterprises (2011), founder of Eyesoda.com (2007), and co-founder of Compass Intelligence (2005), Ms. Burney leverages her skills to create and grow innovative, new businesses.
Change3 Enterprises is built upon Ms. Burney's deep industry knowledge, position as a thought leader in the area of customer engagement, and her experience in building web-based experiences, particularly Eyesoda.com. A trained economist, Ms. Burney has led professional services, market research and creative organizations over the last 20 years using a combination of uncommon skills. By melding the creative with the quantitative using technical knowledge, Ms. Burney has helped her clients innovate, while optimizing their marketing operations and strategic processes.
Ms. Burney has been a featured guest on CNBC's the Closing Bell, and her insights have been used by the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission and the Small Business Administration. Ms. Burney was featured in Fortune Small Business Magazine, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Baron's Investors Daily, USAToday, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Wired, and Information Week.
Ms. Burney holds a dual B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, as well as an M.A. in Mathematical Economics from Boston University (1996). She also completed the prestigious American Economics Association Minority Econometrics Program at Stanford University (1994). Ms. Burney lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, which, after nearly two decades of traveling the globe, she still considers to be the most beautiful place on Earth.