A career spent at the intersection of leadership, complexity, and change.
I am Ken Gavranovic: founder and CEO of Interland, now Web.com, from $0 to $200M+ ARR and a Nasdaq IPO; EVP and GM at New Relic, growing revenue from $300M to $500M; operator at Cox Automotive; COO in a PE-backed turnaround; 35+ M&A transactions and 18 exits. A thinking and execution partner who has held the seat: I coach and advise CEOs, founders, and leadership teams from Alpharetta, Georgia, remote with leaders everywhere, in person across the Atlanta metro, and on-site anywhere the work calls for it.
I made the money and I got the scars: the IPO, the mergers, the quarters that went wrong and the ones we turned. My first half was on purpose. So is this one. I did not move into coaching because operating ended; I finished that chapter and chose this work: shortening the learning curve for the people now sitting where I sat.
Responsibility and scale, from startup to public.
Ken has served as CEO of a Nasdaq-listed company, led product and technology organizations at multi-billion-dollar scale, and stepped into some of the most demanding executive roles organizations face during pivotal transitions.
As Founder and CEO of Interland, which became Web.com, he built the company from the ground up, scaling it past $200M in revenue and 650+ employees, and leading it through a successful public offering on Nasdaq. He later guided platform strategy at New Relic as EVP & GM, growing revenue from $300M to $500M. At Cox Automotive, he led a major cloud and DevOps transformation with a $250M budget.
More recently, as COO of Blameless, he turned around a Series B business, cutting burn roughly in half while growing sales, and guided it to a merger with FireHydrant. Across all of it, Ken was consistently called into situations where momentum mattered, complexity was rising, and leadership needed to be both decisive and steady.
From the trading floor to the main stage.
Practical, human-centered, and grounded in experience.
Rather than adding noise or urgency, Ken focuses on simplifying complexity: helping leaders and teams see what matters most and move forward with confidence.
Leaders are aligned around what truly matters.
Teams understand the purpose behind the work, not just the tasks.
Strategy is translated into clear priorities and sustainable operating rhythms.
Technology, product, and go-to-market operate as a cohesive system.
Leaders create environments that support accountability, learning, and trust.
A rare combination of vantage points: founder, public-company CEO, product and technology leader, growth-stage builder, enterprise transformer, investor, and advisor, and an understanding of how every one of those intersects.
A trusted perspective, in the boardroom and the press.
Author of the Amazon best seller Business Breakthrough 3.0, with 100+ published articles, international keynotes, and features across leading outlets.
Built, scaled, taken public, turned around.
I founded Interland in my twenties and rode it from zero to $200 million in revenue, 650 people, and a Nasdaq IPO, then through the merger that made it Web.com. Everything I teach about scaling I learned the expensive way first.
At New Relic I helped grow revenue from $300 million to $500 million as EVP and GM, leading 450 people across four countries. At Cox Automotive I ran a $250 million multi-brand cloud transformation: 99.9 percent uptime, recovery times cut 70 percent. As COO of Blameless I cut burn roughly in half, lifted sales 40 percent, and guided the company to acquisition. Along the way: 35 M&A transactions and 18 exits, three as an operator.
The other half of the story is the human one. I am an ICF Certified Coach and a Certified Executive Coach, with a BS in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, and a CMHC master's underway at Mercer University. The tech side started with computer science at Texas A&M in 1990. I sit on the Forbes Coaches Council, contribute to Thinkers50, and co-authored Business Breakthrough 3.0. That pairing, the operating seat and the trained human side, is the whole point of how I coach senior operators. If you are weighing coaches, I wrote up the six questions to ask any executive coach, including me.
Home is Alpharetta, Georgia, in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, with my wife Heather and our two daughters. I work remotely with leaders everywhere and on-site anywhere the work calls for it.
If your organization is navigating a pivotal moment, let's talk.
A focused, no-pressure conversation to help you move forward with clarity, and fewer unnecessary missteps.