Kaila Colbin
Chief Marketing Officer
MiniMonos
New Zealand
Panelist, General Session: Transformation in Action−Best Gaming Practices from Around the World
Wednesday, June 8
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Kaila Colbin is Chief Marketing Officer and founder shareholder of MiniMonos.com, a virtual world for kids who love to play and love the planet. She's an entrepreneur, a communicator, a journalist, a PMP-certified project manager, and a social media maven. She is also one of just 17 New Zealanders who trained with Al Gore to deliver the Inconvenient Truth presentations.
Kaila has successfully implemented national and international public relations campaigns in the U.S. and New Zealand. In one of her earlier ventures, Kaila created and implemented the ParentsConnected Nationwide Seminar Tour, designed to teach kids and parents how to use computers and the Internet. The tour put on stage shows at schools across the United States, and garnered nearly 5 million impressions in the spring of 2001. At ThoughtSource, Kaila also co-developed “The Real People’s Learning System” book and video series and the “ParentsConnected” line of videos. She was featured on television, radio, and print media throughout the U.S., including CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and Entrepreneur Magazine. A native New Yorker, Kaila is fluent in English, Spanish, French and Italian, holds a degree from Cornell University, and has been a serial entrepreneur since the age of 22.
