Leadership

The people behind the work.

Two founders, four strategic advisors and a six-person subject matter expert board.

Founders

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Sunish Jose

20+ years building globally distributed teams. Built and scaled Global Agency businesses with Publicis, Accenture and multiple global fortune 500 clients from a handful of people to upwards of 4000 people. Sunish has proven deep expertise across large scale Digital, Marketing & Transformation projects for multiple industries.

Co-founder & Chief Business Officer

Christian "CK" Kohn

18 years leading P&Ls at Publicis across EMEA and the US, including Global Chief Product Officer at Performics and SVP at Razorfish, with P&Ls for Unilever, Daimler and New York Life.

Strategic advisors

Advised by the people who built this at scale.

Four C-level operators from global consulting firms, holding-company agencies and Big Tech who have built and run the delivery, agency and platform businesses our model is drawn from.

Global agency P&L

Michael Kahn

Board Member · Former Global CEO, Publicis and Astound Commerce

  • Global CEO, Performics Worldwide - 3,400 people, 57 markets
  • Global Brand President, Digitas NA - 4,000 staff, 30+ countries

Has carried the P&L for agency networks at global scale.

Managed services & strategy consulting

Arvind Gupta

Former Head, Managed Services - KPMG US · Managing Director, Strategy Consulting, Accenture · Vice President, IBM - Sales and Business Development

  • Scaled Accenture's Global Consulting Network from 500 to 5,000 consultants
  • Led KPMG India consulting - 55 partners, 2,000+ staff. Built IBM's BPO business

Built offshore delivery at the scale our model is drawn from.

Agency ecosystem & platforms

Dave Tan

Former Managing Director, Google - US Agency Development

  • 30 years of experience, including 14 years at Google leading a 100 member team and executive roles at Omnicom (Resolution Media), Chicago Tribune Interactive and Navteq-Nokia

Sees how the strongest independents scale - and where they stall.

Holding-company agency leadership

Frank-Peter Lortz

Former Chief Executive Officer · Publicis Groupe DACH

  • Led Publicis Groupe across Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Successfully merged Publicis Media, Creative and Communications

Knows Holdco delivery infrastructure from the inside.

Subject matter expert board

Senior oversight on every engagement.

Six discipline leads - all C-level or former C-level, all Global-market fluent with deep practice expertise - who set the standard, challenge the delivery team and QA the output.

Media

Rob Silver

VP Media & Sponsorships · Charter Communications

  • 19 years leading national media, Razorfish / Publicis
  • Clients: Mercedes-Benz, Citi, Marriott

Sets US media execution standards. Reviews plans and activation against home-market norms - catches gaps before they reach the client.

Data & analytics

Dr. Ram Singh

CEO & Founder, EtaKor · IAB Commerce Board Member

  • 30+ years senior and C-Level analytics roles
  • Forbes Technology Council · Ed.D., IIT Banaras

Reviews analytics frameworks and attribution models. Challenges offshore data teams on methodology and ensures measurement meets US market standards.

Brand & creative

Anthony Yell

CCO / Creative Advisor · Former CCO, Razorfish

  • Innovation Agency of the Year 2024 & 2025
  • Cannes Lions, Adobe MAX, SXSW speaker

QAs creative output against US brand standards. Shows what award-worthy looks like. Challenges offshore teams on quality before client delivery.

Technology & data

Kartik Reddy

Chief Information Officer · Health Monitor Network

  • 25+ years leading technology roles, Sapient/Publicis
  • MarTech: Adobe, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Validates MarTech architecture and technology decisions. Ensures offshore tech delivery meets Fortune 500 enterprise standards.

CRM

Emily Schwinge

Former EVP CRM & Connected Media · Razorfish

  • +75% e-commerce growth via CDP (Godiva)
  • 300% ROI on loyalty programs (Estée Lauder)

Sets CRM and lifecycle standards. Reviews personalization strategy and ensures offshore execution aligns with US martech best practice.

Research & data

Jonathan Chavez

Chief Research Officer · Gydence Group

  • 18 years Co-Founder & CAO, SocialSphere
  • Harvard AB Social Studies · ORBIT methodology

Guides research design and validates consumer insight methodology. Provides US market context for offshore insights teams.

Leadership, answered

Who founded 57K?

Sunish Jose (Co-founder & CEO) and Christian "CK" Kohn (Co-founder & Chief Business Officer).

Who advises 57K?

Four C-level operators: Michael Kahn, Arvind Gupta, Dave Tan and Frank-Peter Lortz, from global agencies, consulting firms and Big Tech.

What is the subject matter expert board?

Six discipline leads, all C-level or former C-level, who set the standard, challenge the delivery team and QA the output on every engagement.

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