Kristen Shannon is the CEO and Founder of Highliner Technology. Kristen is a results-driven executive with over 10 years of experience in strategy development, operational execution, and organisational scaling. Her career focus has been working in high-pressure companies going through periods of significant and fast-paced growth.

Kristen has worked for ambitious organisations that have more than doubled in size year on year, leading both recruitment of over 800 FTE a year as well as leading and scaling operations teams. Before consulting for both high growth startups and multinational tech companies (post-acquisition) such as Cisco Meraki, iProov, Sonantic and Oxford Ionics, Kristen was COO of a deep tech company where she led operations and strategy up to and through their series A process.

Kristen’s focus is on helping companies design and implement practical, scalable solutions that are the highest leverage to the organizations. Kristen works with companies both on codifying their organizational culture and strategy to support growth as well as auditing and designing the operational systems, processes, and tools needed to accomplish their key business objectives at scale.