John Kennelly is a seven-year software industry veteran. He began his career at Accenture in tech consulting and was later part of back-to-back software acquisitions, one to Google and the other to Apple. John is a lover of all things startup and has since moved back in the direction of early stage technology, this time in hardware. He is currently the head of partnerships at b8ta, a software-powered retail showroom for out-of-the-box hardware and IoT products.