Kevin Stamler
CEO, Founder
Kevin Stamler is the founder and CEO of SeatBoost. With a background in experiential marketing and as an avid traveler and flier, Kevin saw an opportunity to help airlines monetize empty First Class and other premium seats in an engaging and effective way, and subsequently developed the SeatBoost app and airline web portal to achieve just that.
Kevin oversees sales strategy and execution, creating solutions to drive significant ancillary revenue for airline clients around the world. Kevin is also responsible for forging and maintaining strategic partnerships with a variety of GDS, technology and aviation companies. Beyond that, Kevin handles fundraising efforts for the company, raising over $2MM to date.
Kevin is a serial entrepreneur having founded multiple successful companies in the Los Angeles experiential marketing, events and nightlife space, including being on the founding team at industry-leading experiential marketing agency, NVE, in 2005. His companies have been responsible for generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year for the most premiere clubs in LA. Finally, Kevin earned a J.D. from USC’s Gould School of Law in 2010 and serves on the board of multiple St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital events each year.
Karl Goetz
CTO, Co-founder
As CTO and co-founder of SeatBoost, Karl Goetz solves for the technological issues that arise in creating, deploying, and optimizing the SeatBoost platform in a multinational environment. With over 20 years in the field, his experience ranges from leading small to large engineering teams to various C-level executive leadership roles.
Karl’s main focus at SeatBoost is on overcoming the challenges that stem from building a localized and distributed product for users around the globe regardless of their location or level of technology. Each country brings nuances in auction use and subtle differences in the way SeatBoost is understood by the user. Karl and his team pay careful attention to these variances to ensure SeatBoost produces a superior product that best suits those needs.
Prior to SeatBoost, Karl founded GHR where he created automated digital publishing systems for over 30 clients, and served as the MIS Director for Key Method, a leading medical software company. Karl majored in Quantitative Methods and Computer Science at St. Thomas College in Saint Paul, MN.
Jackie Mayer
VP, Operations
Jackie Mayer oversees the Account Management, Customer Service and Marketing teams at SeatBoost. She is responsible for growing and maintaining relationships with airline clients, ensuring world-class customer service to our users around the world, and implementing strategies to effectively captivate and engage potential SeatBoost users, both on and offline.
Jackie majored in English at UCLA and worked for several years in digital advertising and branding at companies including Fanscape, before co-founding video advertising company, Giant Media, in 2011. Giant Media promoted video content for many of the world’s leading brands including Air New Zealand, Bank of America, American Express, and Dollar Shave Club, among many others.
Jackie held the role of VP, Accounts at Giant Media where she helped scale the company from 3 to over 40 employees, and as part of the executive team, helped lead company strategy, product development, and sales tactics. She also directly oversaw the Client Services and Marketing teams. In 2014, Giant Media was acquired by Acknowledge, and in 2016, Jackie left Giant Media to help grow the team at SeatBoost.
