Ken Allen is the Founder and CEO of Thinkifi. Frustrated by the state of online discourse and a general lack of civility, in Thinkifi Ken aims to create a safe, trusted, measured, and peaceful environment where people having a full spectrum of viewpoints can discuss and exchange ideas in a civil manner.

Ken’s 27-year career spans entrepreneurship, investment banking and strategic consulting. Prior to founding Thinkifi, Ken was an investment banker with KPMG’s Corporate Finance group, where he led the firm’s Technology Services vertical. Prior to KPMG, Ken provided strategic consulting and investment banking services through a firm he founded, Seaport Capital Partners. Earlier in Ken’s career, he was a Managing Director at PJT Partners and Blackstone in these firms’ Strategic Advisory practices, where he focused on Mergers & Acquisitions for some of the largest technology companies in the world. Prior to Blackstone, Ken worked at Deutsche Bank, where he focused on advising technology clients on a wide range of transactions, from equity and debt offerings to M&A. During his investment banking career, Ken advised technology clients on over $40 billion of transacted value across 40 transactions.

Prior to Ken’s investment banking career, he was an entrepreneur at Xilicon, a firm he founded in 1999, that provided an app store for downloadable digital content such as software, videos, and eBooks. Ken launched his career in the strategic consulting industry, working at both Bain & Company and The Parthenon Group (now EY Parthenon).

Ken received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was a Tuck Scholar, and his B.E. (Electrical Engineering) and A.B. (Engineering Sciences) from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and from which he graduated with Summa Cum Laude honors.