Kenneth J. Grosso - Chief Executive Officer
Kenneth is a co-founder of Powered by Professionals and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. He is charged with the responsibility of the overall marketing and vision of the company as well as heading up volunteer acquisition and retention for clients.

Kenneth has a very unique combination of business and management skills with areas of expertise in finance, sales/marketing, personal and executive coaching, public speaking, new media, direct marketing, technology, and charitable, social and corporate event planning/promotion.

Kenneth began his professional career in 1992 as a Certified Public Accountant at KPMG. He worked as an assurance manager and consultant in the information, communications and entertainment practice. He was responsible for managing the engagement teams of Fortune 500 clients such as Reader's Digest Association, NBC (GE) and Pepsi Cola International (PepsiCo) as well as over a dozen Internet companies.

Concurrently with his position at KPMG, Kenneth founded an event/promotions company named Zonk Productions where he planned events at various venues throughout New York City for audiences of 50 to 2,600.

In August 1997, Kenneth joined a start-up Internet company named Promotions.com, (formerly know as Netstakes) as its fifth employee in the capacity of head of sales. In his first three years he built, trained and managed a sales force of over seventy people in four cities across the United States and increased revenue from $40,000 to $27 million. He was also instrumental in the company's successful IPO in September 1999, which raised over $50 million. In September 2000, Kenneth was promoted to President of the Webstakes.com division and in late 2001, he decided to leave the company in order to launch Powered by Professionals.

Kenneth earned a business degree from Pace University and has been active in many charitable organizations and fundraising efforts over the past fifteen years and has been responsible for raising millions of dollars for organizations such as Pace University Alumni Association, Leukemia Society of America, Junior Achievement, The Tomorrow's Children Fund, Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

He serves on numerous advisory boards and committees for businesses and charities throughout the tri-state area including the advising committee for the New York City Disability Mentoring Day. He consults many individual business owners and speaks around the world on topics such as entrepreneurship, networking, goal setting and master-mind groups. Kenneth is an avid sports fan and competitor and participates in several sports leagues and has competed in several marathons throughout the country.

Ken currently resides in New York City with his wife Tiffany and dog Fezziwig where they are awaiting a baby boy scheduled to arrive in October. Ken can be reached via email at ken@poweredbyprofessionals.com.