Kristen Vasan

Director, Strategic Platform Partnerships Foursquare

Kristen’s decade-long run in the geolocation technology space has helped her bring value to some of the largest players in the travel industry, including Hilton, Condé Nast Traveler, HotelTonight, Marriott, Expedia, AirBnB, and TripAdvisor. Her specialties include consulting global brands on digital innovation, systems architecture, UI/UX design, SEO, analytics, and more with a purview across a wide range of location and mobile marketing automation platforms including Foursquare, Google Maps, MapBox, Carto, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Braze, and many others. She currently oversees strategic platform partnerships at Foursquare across brands in travel, real estate, and emerging markets. 

Kristen is a traveler at heart, having lived in 5 countries and explored dozens of others. She holds a BA in International Studies and Spanish Lit from Ohio Wesleyan University and is currently based in Manhattan, NY.