Our Founder and CEO Kelly Ann Collins has considerable experience in leading communication strategies for social good, technology, media, food and beverage, hospitality, Web3 and health innovation initiatives—globally.

In 2021, she was dubbed one of the top 100 “most inspiring women” and one of the top women entrepreneurs in the digital media marketplace. Throughout her career she has published thousands of articles as an investigative journalist and national news reporter, helped launch USATODAY.com, Everyday Health, and Revolution, in addition other organizations, startups, nonprofits and media platforms.

She is the founder and CEO of Vult Lab, and HomeCon, a virtual fundraising platform and official Twitch partner that launched to raise funds for first responders at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, more than 800,000 attendees and more than 100 celebrities worked to help raise funds.

She was one of the very first bloggers, and one of the first influencers - for Google. A publication she co-founded and launched in 2010 was the first publication of its kind to get White House credentials, via the Obama Administration.

As a consultant, Kelly Ann's integrated marketing communications work has involved many companies, governments, media organizations, NGOs, nonprofits and brands, including: Absolut, Adobe, American Idol, Australian Aid, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Blue Angel Vodka, Belvedere, CBS, CDC, Chicago Bulls Charities, CNET, Canada, Capital One, Conservation International, Disney, Global Innovation Exchange, HP, Huawei, Jamba Juice, MTV, National Minority Quality Forum, OZY, Red Bull, Results for Development Institute, Revolution (Steve Case), Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Starbucks, TED-Ed, The Cordish Companies (Entertainment Complexes Division), Twitter for Good, UNEP, UNDP, USA Today, USAID, USDA, United Nations, Veuve Clicquot, Vitamin Water, Washington Capitals, and World Bank. She has also served as an official Twitter Creator, and she was a member of Twitter’s first cohort of official Twitter Spaces hosts.

These prestigious experiences and engagements have provided Ms. Collins with the skills and capacity to administrate broad-reaching communications and marketing strategies. In 2021, Ms. Collins and her Vult Lab team were recognized by The White House for their pandemic-related communications work. She was also named one of the top 100 female business leaders by Inc. Magazine, and picked by Twitter to host conversations on Web3 in its Spaces audio platform.

Ms. Collins, who has formally gained skills at MIT, Cornell, West Virginia University, Google and YCombinator has also mentored founders at Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and The George Washington University School of Business.