2026 SAMA Annual Conference  Speaker

Kate Burda

Kate Burda is CEO and Founder of Kate Burda & Co, where they work with organizations and teams to build strategic performance by looking at excelling current revenue streams, or expanding into new lines of business. From there it is a deep dive into how their sales, marketing, and pricing teams make it happen.

Over three decades of experience spans across leading global commercial teams within hospitality, real estate development, life sciences, pharmaceutical, as well as startups.

She is passionate in how to think differently, being relevant and differentiated in a very crowded marketplace. They challenge the status quo and legacy thinking to give way to innovation and revenue growth.

Recently they have launched “Ignite,” a generative AI platform, that builds a data-driven revenue roadmap that prioritizes revenue streams and helps set strategies and actions to get teams to where they want to be. It is the Turbo Tax of revenue actualization. Ignite focuses on your most valuable business and helps to teams to “Do Less, Make it Mean More.”

Kate did her MBA at the University of Colorado, with a MS in Finance.