Arron Kallenberg
Arron Kallenberg
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Founder & CEO
Homer, Alaska, United States
Born and raised in Alaska, Arron Kallenberg is a seasoned entrepreneur who worked in the tech industry for nearly two decades before returning to his roots and founding the Wild Alaskan Company in 2017.
Arron participated in the inaugural class of TechStars, a prominent mentorship-driven seed-stage investment fund. In 2012 Villij.com was acquired by Which Ventures and subsequently named one of the most successful startups to come out of TechStars by Business Insider.
Arron is also the co-founder of Olive Interactive, LLC. Olive Interactive developed a suite of patented online identity management services that were acquired by Allegretto Publishing Ltd.
Arron has been cited as a technical source by CNN and is also a contributing writer to Mashable.com. He lived in New York City for 10 years. Prior to founding Wild Alaskan, he conducted technical due diligence on behalf of private equity and venture capital firms, helping investors to understand the business impact of technology investments.
Arron is also the lead organizer of the New York Laravel meetup. With over 290 members, the group meets to discuss Laravel, a widely-used modern development framework.
Arron comes from a long line of commercial fishermen. He spent his formative years working on one of his family’s two commercial fishing boats. He is passionate about community-supported sustainable seafood, supply chain management practices and ways in which technology enable the best parts of humanity.
Arron is also the founder of Alaskan American, a direct-to-consumer apparel company that places particular emphasis on the advocacy of sustainable wild-caught Alaskan seafood.
He now lives with his wife and son in Homer, Alaska.
Subject Matter Expertise:
Technical Leadership
Application Architecture
IT Due Diligence
Business Development
Product Management
Project Management
Fundraising
Investor Relations
Software Development
E-commerce
AdTech
Arron participated in the inaugural class of TechStars, a prominent mentorship-driven seed-stage investment fund. In 2012 Villij.com was acquired by Which Ventures and subsequently named one of the most successful startups to come out of TechStars by Business Insider.
Arron is also the co-founder of Olive Interactive, LLC. Olive Interactive developed a suite of patented online identity management services that were acquired by Allegretto Publishing Ltd.
Arron has been cited as a technical source by CNN and is also a contributing writer to Mashable.com. He lived in New York City for 10 years. Prior to founding Wild Alaskan, he conducted technical due diligence on behalf of private equity and venture capital firms, helping investors to understand the business impact of technology investments.
Arron is also the lead organizer of the New York Laravel meetup. With over 290 members, the group meets to discuss Laravel, a widely-used modern development framework.
Arron comes from a long line of commercial fishermen. He spent his formative years working on one of his family’s two commercial fishing boats. He is passionate about community-supported sustainable seafood, supply chain management practices and ways in which technology enable the best parts of humanity.
Arron is also the founder of Alaskan American, a direct-to-consumer apparel company that places particular emphasis on the advocacy of sustainable wild-caught Alaskan seafood.
He now lives with his wife and son in Homer, Alaska.
Subject Matter Expertise:
Technical Leadership
Application Architecture
IT Due Diligence
Business Development
Product Management
Project Management
Fundraising
Investor Relations
Software Development
E-commerce
AdTech
