As Vice President, Client Development at Basis Technologies – a company committed to developing software and services that support the increasingly complex digital media landscape, and to improving the lives of the people working inside it – JK leads a sales team who are focused on providing Raving Fan service to advertising/marketing agencies throughout MI, OH, PA and WV. Prior to Basis Technologies, JK led sales supporting Dailymotion's cross-platform video solution across 17 states in the Central region of the US. JK has worked at some of the nation’s largest media companies including Hearst, Time Inc., Gannett in addition to VC-funded start-ups. JK spent the first 7+ years of his career in media planning; first at W.B. Doner and then GM Planworks (formerly a division of Publicis). He has a 23+ year history in the automotive marketing sector, and has worked with nearly every global OEM in addition to a variety of Fortune 500 companies, including Target, Progressive Insurance, Kimberly-Clark and Sherwin-Williams. A self-regarded “pop culture and music nerd” Koenigsknecht lives in Troy, MI with his wife Christen and their four children.