Kelly Smith — Senior VP & Chief Digital Officer at MGM Resorts International

Mr. Kelly Smith has been Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer of MGM Resorts International since September 2017. Mr. Smith is the Founding Partner and Co-Founder at Curious Office Partners. Mr. Smith leads the bulk of the investments and company incubating. He serves as Advisor at Scoutzie, LLC. Mr. Smith serves as the Vice President, Digital for Starbucks Coffee Company. He founded Pressplane (Formerly, Zapd, LLC) in 2011 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He served as Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Imagekind, Inc. He founded RocketVox. His most recent position was managing IPTV product marketing as Vice President Product Marketing of Myrio Corporation. In 1995, Mr. Smith joined RealNetworks. He held various sales and marketing positions with SPRY. He started his career peddling a commercial version of the source code from the Mosaic web browser before there was a Netscape. He has over 15 years software and digital media experience and a broad base of skills. He has been actively working in the internet sector since 1994. He received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Walla Walla University.