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Our powerful solutions are only possible because of our people. When you partner with Couranto, you deepen your bench with our bright, supportive team and their unparalleled experience.
Meet our leadership team
Julie Sue Auslander
President, Chief Cultural Officer
Julie Sue Auslander is the company’s Chief Cultural Officer or Corporate Evangelist and avoids the traditional “President” persona. These terms better reflect her commitment to a process of insight and discovery—a process that shaped her role as a leader of a successful woman-owned business.
Year after year, her leadership earns Couranto national recognition, including a spot on Inc 5000 and “Top 50 Women Owned Business” in New Jersey. She was also named a WBENC National Star in 2012. Auslander was honored with the “2008 Enterprising Woman of the Year” recognition and made the Women’s Enterprise list of 2008 top businesses in the U.S. She earned her MA and MEd from Columbia University and a BS from Pace University in New York.
David Rifkin
Executive Vice President, Chief Client Officer
Innovation and creative problem-solving are the cornerstones of David Rifkin's career. Before Couranto, he was a founder and Senior Vice President of LoJack of New York/New Jersey Corporation, responsible for marketing a stolen vehicle recovery system linked to Federal and State Police crime computers and patrol cars.
Earlier, Rifkin served in developmental marketing and advertising at NYNEX Corporation, where he was involved in the nation’s first launches of cellular service. He was also on the Western Union Corporation team, where he was responsible for promoting the company’s largest and most prestigious telecommunications services. He earned his MBA with Distinction from New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business, and his B.Sc. from Temple University in Philadelphia.
Ken Redler
Chief Technology Officer
Ken Redler has been conceiving, building, and shipping web software since 1994. He brings a designer’s sensibility to software engineering, and a software engineer’s pragmatism to design. His passion is making products, and teams that make products, informed by art, science, and market fit. At Couranto, Redler heads up technology, product strategy, and research and development. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and events worldwide. Prior, Redler was CEO and co-founder of Comvision, a web software firm in New York City, and built several web-based services and companies.
He is also on the board of directors of FwdCode, a non-profit Hackathon organization that helps bring the passion and creativity of tech to the collegiate market. Ken holds an AB in English from Dartmouth College.
Nick Collison
Director of Business Strategy, Market Development, Library & E-Content
Nick Collison has worked in the information industry for more than 20 years, and currently serves as Director of Business Strategy, Market Development, Library & E-Content. Originally from the United Kingdom, he moved to the United States 12 years ago to meet the challenges of the U.S. market. Collison has been a member of the Special Library Association for over a decade and served on the SLA Centennial Committee, Finance Committee, and has been SLA’s Treasurer and on the Executive Board for the past three years.
He is extremely passionate about his craft, and works primarily with business information, knowledge, research & development, and libraries across multiple disciplines. Collison has a BA in Business Marketing, and is seen as a thought leader among his peers within the industry.
Stephen Phillips
Director, EMEA Business Development
Stephen has worked in the information industry for many years. He joins us from a leading global investment bank where he led a large research team and managed an extensive portfolio of suppliers. He is a trustee of the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals and was vice chair of their Knowledge & Information Management group. He is an SLA fellow and the 2021 European Chapter Conference Chair. He regularly contributes to a wide range of industry think tanks, events & journals.
In his spare time, Stephen is a trustee of two schools, a keen golfer, vacations in Portugal, and enjoys long walks with Reggie (his Airedale terrier).
Carol Hill
VP Account Management
Carol Hill has over 21 years experience in account management working with multinational organizations. Her prior role was with The Nielsen Company where she led some of their top accounts including Colgate-Palmolive, Mondelez International, and Schering-Plough CHC (now Bayer CHC). She also led consumer panel engagements across Nielsen’s Retail Services Group. Prior to The Nielsen Company, Carol was the account coordinator for Grosvenor Marketing (Twining’s Tea) and Category Management Analyst with A&P.
Hill has vast experience across solution sets and data analysis and is an expert at linking both her account management experience and industry knowledge with every client. She joined the Couranto team in Summer 2018.
Expertise, insight, and collaborative partnership
No matter where your information comes from, our expert staff helps connect your people to the resources they need to thrive, inspiring innovation and controlling costs.