Prominent Brand Strategist Launches Black Label Advisory
July 21, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Kenny Kahn President Black Label Advisory 704 807.4032 kenny@blacklabeladvisory.com
Prominent Brand Strategist Launches Black Label Advisory
CHARLOTTE, N.C., – March 1, 2010 Kenny Kahn, former Chief Strategic Officer of Iverify and former Executive Vice President of Sales, Product & Marketing for Muzak, today announced the launch of Black Label Advisory (www.blacklabeladvisory.com). Aligning strategic experts across a range of areas within corporate strategy, brand building and investment, the Black Label Advisory team fuses quantitative research with creative, expert insight to accelerate companies and brands to optimal performance.
“Black Label Advisory is a different kind of consultant. We approach our client’s challenges in original, thought-provoking and sometimes unconventional ways,” says President and Founder, Kenny Kahn. “Our methodologies inspire a different kind of thinking that dares business leaders to ask the question, ‘What if...?’”
Black Label Advisory’s portfolio of services include:
- Business Strategy
- Brand Strategy
- Marketing & Internet Strategy
- Black Label Outsourced CMO Program
- Creative Services & Web Development
- Product & Channel Development
- Investment & Capital Raise
- Event Concepts & Development
Black Label Advisory’s partner network spans London, Charlotte, San Francisco and New York, and represents more than 150 years of high-level corporate strategy, brand building, emerging technology and financial experience in a range of sectors, including business services, retail, leisure, financial, government, technology, cultural and not-for-profit. The team includes:
- Kenny Kahn, Strategy and Brand
- Debbie Taffler, Strategy and Brand
- Brian Jacobs, Brand and Interactiive Design
- Theresa Payton, Technology
- Robert Butters, Event Concepts and Development
- Howard Kahn, Investment and Capital Raise
- Rick Von Gnechten, Financial Advisory
- Deana Hicks, Project Management
“I am proud to have assembled and to be working with so many talented partners,” continues Kahn. “Black Label Advisory offers companies the resources of an international powerhouse with the service of a niche consultancy firm. There are no limits when you apply this kind of experience.”
Prior to forming Black Label Advisory, Kenny served as Chief Strategic Officer for Iverify. Under Kenny’s direction, the innovative security services company significantly grew its recurring revenues in a very difficult 2009 economy. In 2009, Iverify was named one of Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing privately-held companies in the United States.
In 1997, Kenny was selected by Muzak’s Chairman and CEO to lead the revitalization of the company’s embattled brand. As Executive Vice President of Sales, Product & Marketing, Kenny was the principal architect for the re-branding. The business turnaround grew the company from $80MM in revenue to $250MM in just four years. Ten years later, the success of the world’s leading provider of business music became the subject of a Harvard Business School case study entitled, “Kenny Kahn at Muzak”.
Black Label Advisory’s clients include Iverify, the critically acclaimed Peter Pan the Show, GK Finance and Charge Card Systems.
About Black Label Advisory
Black Label Advisory is in the business of accelerating businesses. Our team has helped some of the world’s leading innovators harness the power of effective corporate strategy, brand building, and investment to solve critical problems and achieve key goals. We’re strategists, leaders, executives, investors, marketers, and designers. But most of all, we’re creative problem solvers who partner with our clients to revamp, rethink and reinvigorate their companies. For twenty years leading companies have relied on us to energize their businesses. Visit BlackLabelAdvisory.com.