Full Name
Raman Kia
Job Title
CEO
Company
RJK Project
Speaker Bio
Raman is the CEO & Co-founder of RJK Project, and the CEO & Co-founder of HAVLY, Inc. He is a marketer, entrepreneur, musician, and a special needs advocate.
He began his career in the music industry in the UK. Working his way up the ranks of the recording industry he started as a tea boy in a recording studio before becoming an engineer, a published songwriter, and finally an artist signed by the legendary Jimmy Iovine to Interscope Records.
When his music career ended and after a brief stint as a commodities trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Raman dove back into the creative world as a marketer. Over the last 20 years, he has been behind the digital marketing of many of the world’s best known brands in fashion, beauty, and home such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Net-a-porter & Mr Porter, Neiman Marcus, kate spade new york, Donna Karen, Lancome, Bergdorf Goodman, Mother Denim, and Colgate-Palmolive to name a few. Raman has also served in the esteemed role of Executive Director of Digital & Integrated Marketing at Conde Nast. Today, he continues to make waves in the marketing space with RJK Project, his most recent firm that he co-founded with his equally talented wife Jessica.
Raman's experience as a special needs parent has also inspired him to spearhead a program of special needs training for first responders in New Jersey which he intends to expend nationally over the coming years.
Raman’s most recent endeavor is the creation of HAVLY. “This towel will change your entire routine — it’s the perfect size (just between a bath towel and a body sheet), has one soft and plush section for respectively drying your face and hands, and another for your body, and with our D-Loop, you can rest assured it will never fall off from its hook. Simply put, it’s the best towel we could dream up.” Raman adds, “Our towels and packaging are fully manufactured in Turkey in environmentally friendly facilities, and made in safe and socially responsible workplaces.” For every towel sold, HAVLY will donate $1 to DonorsChoose.org to fund Autism related Projects.
He began his career in the music industry in the UK. Working his way up the ranks of the recording industry he started as a tea boy in a recording studio before becoming an engineer, a published songwriter, and finally an artist signed by the legendary Jimmy Iovine to Interscope Records.
When his music career ended and after a brief stint as a commodities trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange, Raman dove back into the creative world as a marketer. Over the last 20 years, he has been behind the digital marketing of many of the world’s best known brands in fashion, beauty, and home such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton, Net-a-porter & Mr Porter, Neiman Marcus, kate spade new york, Donna Karen, Lancome, Bergdorf Goodman, Mother Denim, and Colgate-Palmolive to name a few. Raman has also served in the esteemed role of Executive Director of Digital & Integrated Marketing at Conde Nast. Today, he continues to make waves in the marketing space with RJK Project, his most recent firm that he co-founded with his equally talented wife Jessica.
Raman's experience as a special needs parent has also inspired him to spearhead a program of special needs training for first responders in New Jersey which he intends to expend nationally over the coming years.
Raman’s most recent endeavor is the creation of HAVLY. “This towel will change your entire routine — it’s the perfect size (just between a bath towel and a body sheet), has one soft and plush section for respectively drying your face and hands, and another for your body, and with our D-Loop, you can rest assured it will never fall off from its hook. Simply put, it’s the best towel we could dream up.” Raman adds, “Our towels and packaging are fully manufactured in Turkey in environmentally friendly facilities, and made in safe and socially responsible workplaces.” For every towel sold, HAVLY will donate $1 to DonorsChoose.org to fund Autism related Projects.
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