kneat.com, inc. announced it has appointed Katie Keita to lead its investor relations program. Katie will report to Kneat's CFO Hugh Kavanagh, who previously led the effort. With a 20+ year career in investor relations that began as a consultant for micro and small-cap companies and grew to encompass global tech leaders, Katie has introduced hundreds of investors to quality companies with solid growth trajectories and facilitated strong, long-term and mutually beneficial connections between the two along the way.

Prior to establishing Shopify's investor relations program in 2015, which she led for seven years, Katie spent nine years growing the investor base for EMC, now Dell EMC. Katie holds a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an MBA from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University.