Afif Khoury, Founder and CEO of SOCi, Inc., has been at the forefront of technology for over 25 years. From his early contribution to the Human Genome Project, a career as a high tech M&A attorney, a manager of two successful Venture Capital funds and the founder & CEO of two successful startups, including JMI backed SOCi, Inc., Afif has made a career out of following the data. His latest company, SOCi, Inc. is one of the Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America for 6 years in a row. SOCi has developed the premier marketing platform for multi-location brands (National and Global brands that transact locally). As the technology partner for nearly 1,000 global brands (e.g., Walmart, Ford, AT&T, Farmer’s Insurance, Ace Hardware, Hyatt, Kumon, Jersey Mike’s, etc), SOCi is the backbone engine on which they manage marketing for more than 3 million locations across all major channels such as search, social, reviews, ads, survey, chatbots, etc. SOCi is G2 rated as the #7 marketing platform in the world and is Entrepreneur’s #1/2 ranked marketing partner to multi-location brands for 5 years running. Outside of providing marketing and workflow solutions, SOCi is leading the conversation on A.I. in multi-location marketing, and is helping the world’s premier brands advance their A.I. strategies with SOCi’s newly released CoMarketing Cloud solution.