Hejong Kim is the President and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He has long held a vision of how to deliver better business results by the smart application of leading-edge technology, combined with industry best practices, and in 2005 he and his co-founders created pureIntegration. Building, nurturing and growing the team of industry and technology experts, Hejong embodies the spirit of customer service and client success that ensures each and every customer understands the value that pureIntegration delivers. His main responsibility is to build an organization that accepts accountability from start to finish, performs exclusively in partnership with its clients, and relentlessly drives towards measurable outcomes.

Under Hejong’s leadership, pureIntegration has expanded beyond its core business and technical expertise in the Communications and High Tech industries to serving Fortune 100 clients in areas as diverse as Financial Services, and Healthcare. Hejong is responsible for ensuring that the pureIntegration team brings a consistently high level of dedication and industry expertise, along with technology leadership, to corporations in any industry. The team’s dedication and commitment, along with a track-record of results, explains a 97% customer satisfaction rating and long tenures among the pureIntegration staff where the average tenure is over 7 years.

Greg Stayin is the Chief Operating Officer (COO), overseeing Operations and Accounting. With almost 30 years of consulting and management experience, Greg’s expertise includes workforce effectiveness, business transformation, strategic planning, and process excellence. As COO of pureIntegration, Greg has successfully managed over 400% company growth in revenue. Throughout this growth, Greg has overseen consistent high client satisfaction ratings averaging 97%. As a VP, he oversees account management, sales, and delivery for the Comcast account. Prior to pureIntegration, Greg was a Partner at Accenture in the Communications Media and Entertainment practice. Greg graduated from the University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce with concentrations in Management Information Systems and Marketing.

As Chief Commercial Officer, Clayton LiaBraaten has comprehensive growth responsibility for pureIntegration and ensures impactful engagements and mutually beneficial commercial arrangements and with customers and prospects. Clayton’s core areas of accountability include business planning and forecasting, sales & account management, GTM planning, and C-Level executive sponsorship. As our CCO, Clayton sets market strategy for the firm, provides senior leadership over the company’s 3 verticalized Business Units and is PI’s senior ‘win-win’ architect.

After an early, decorated career in operational military intelligence, Mr. LiaBraaten has served for over two decades in senior executive roles at high-tech companies like PSINet, Cox Communications, Neustar, Transaction Network Services and MicroStrategy, has been the tip of spear on multiple successful M&A transactions in the Northern Virginia tech corridor and serves on multiple tech-sector advisory boards.

Regarded as a Digital Transformation influencer and technology evangelist, Clayton’s professional passion is leading and mentoring high-performance teams in a player-coach capacity to solve intractable client problems and build durable, synergistic partnerships.

Clayton majored in Soviet/Strategic Studies and Business Management at the University of Maryland, European Division, speaks fluent Russian, and rusty but passable German. His personal passions include fatherhood, fitness and lifelong learning.

Karen Diamond is the Vice President of Business Operations. As the lead of our Business Operations, Karen supports the successful scaleability of the PI organization to deliver exceptional quality while stimulating and supporting exponential growth. Responsible for our people and culture and encompassing all pieces of human capital management through design and optimization of our business processes and operations, the Business Operations team removes friction in all aspects of our organization to achieve high levels of workforce engagement, efficiency in our consulting delivery, and maintenance of our 97% satisfaction rating with our clients. Karen holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from James Madison University.

Dan Ripp is the Senior Consulting Executive, supporting Directors across the organization to uncover business opportunities related to their area of expertise. Dan has managed multiple facets of IT, Engineering & Operations for Comcast Cable Communications. During his over 26 years overseeing Traffic, Operations, Engineering, the Field Team, Master Control, IS/IT and Facilities. Dan consulted for various Telecommunications companies including David Sarnoff Labs (RCA), developing products, infrastructures and operational policies and procedures. During this time, he traveled to over 15 countries, procuring, attending, and many times, leading meetings with foreign dignitaries. Dan’s most notable achievement was the development and introduction of the first Operations Management Center (OMC) within Comcast Spotlight which is responsible for trafficking over 10 mil commercials per week. Dan and his team were the first in the country to launch all digital simulcast (ADS), and lead the way with HD Insertion.