Klee Kleber
Klee Kleber has spent 20 years working as a marketing executive at companies such as WP Engine, Rackspace, Dell and Segway. He has managed through periods of hypergrowth and significant market change, and has specialized in building high-performance teams from the ground up.
Most recently, Klee was CMO of WP Engine, responsible for global marketing for the fast-growing WordPress platform provider. He led branding, demand generation, content marketing, social outreach, partner/affiliate marketing, and product marketing.
Before WP Engine, Klee worked for Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company. He joined the company to run marketing during a time of rapid expansion that included Rackspace’s IPO as well as a rebranding effort. He later led the company’s entrance into the private cloud market, first with VMware and later with OpenStack.
Klee worked at Dell for 10 years, where he split time between Austin and global locations in Tokyo, London and Frankfurt. He worked on Dell’s notebook product line from inception to #1 market share. While overseas, Klee launched Dell’s e-commerce business in Japan and the company’s SMB division in Germany.
At Segway, Klee worked to establish the “personal transporter” in market segments such as police and security, tour operations, and consumer markets.
Klee currently serves as a strategic advisor to startups in Austin, including WP Engine, Pingboard, eRelevance Corporation and a number of companies at the Capital Factory, where he is a Partner.