The Team

Built by people who've
done this before.

Four exits. Akamai's founding team. Thirty years of enterprise AI. This is not a first-time founding team.

Founders

The founding team

Two people who've spent their careers at the intersection of enterprise technology and financial services - and who built the proprietary engine that makes Kintera work.

Christian Klacko
Christian Klacko
CEO & Co-Founder
Christian has built and exited four companies across fintech and enterprise software. As a member of Akamai's founding team, he helped build one of the internet's foundational infrastructure layers. At Micronotes, he scaled the platform to over 200 financial institutions before its acquisition. He brings a rare combination of technical depth and enterprise go-to-market experience to Kintera - having sold to the same credit unions and banks that Kintera serves today.
4 successful exits Akamai founding team MIT Sloan MBA Scaled Micronotes to 200+ FIs Serial GTM leader
linkedin.com/in/christianklacko
Oleg Khodko
Oleg Khodko
CTO & Co-Founder
Oleg has spent 30 years building enterprise AI systems - long before it was called AI. At AspenTech, he architected production AI for some of the most complex industrial operations in the world. He holds patents spanning neural networks, interface translation, and software systems, and designed the proprietary Domain Specific Language at the core of Kintera's platform - the engine that converts human policy documents into verifiable, executable logic. He is the reason Kintera can do what no RPA or GPT wrapper can.
30+ years enterprise AI AspenTech - production AI Proprietary DSL architect Neural network patents Pioneer in agentic systems
linkedin.com/in/olegka
Advisors

The advisory board

Operators who've built, scaled, and regulated financial institutions at the highest level - and who bring active networks, not just names.

Babs Ryan
Babs Ryan
Fintech & Payments Strategy

Former Chief Innovation Officer at GE Capital / Synchrony, where she built a retail financial services product that generated $800M in incremental revenue and acquired 2.3 million new customers. Holds 7 patents.

Former board director and audit (supervisory) committee member for Workers Federal Credit Union ($2.6B assets).

Previously CEO of Waring & LaRosa Direct (acquired by WPP), Director at PwC, SVP at Capgemini, and P&L leader at Citibank UK doubling loan volume in one year while developing new risk strategy.

One of the most decorated innovation executives in financial services.

 

GE Capital CInO 7 patents Citi P&L WPP acquisition
Tom Ryan
Tom Ryan
Credit Union Operations & Leadership

Forty years of credit union leadership at progressive and growth-oriented credit unions. Tom recently retired as President/CEO at Langley Federal Credit Union (2012-2025). During Tom's tenure, the credit union grew from $1.7 billion in assets to $5.6 billion, while the loan portfolio grew from $600 million to $4.5 billion.

Previously, Tom served as EVP/Chief Operating Officer at Digital FCU (DCU). DCU saw explosive growth from 1995-2012, growing from $300 million to $4.5 billion in assets with a loan-to-share ratio of 100%.

As a Kintera advisor, his insight provides industry and credit union perspective validating the impact Kintera can make to credit unions and the industry.

CEO - Langley FCU EVP/COO - DCU 40 years CU leadership Retired 2025
We've been in the room
with these institutions before.
Now we're building for them.
Four exits. 200+ financial institution deployments. Thirty years of enterprise AI. The team building Kintera isn't learning the industry - they've spent their careers inside it.
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