Kneko Burney is a serial entrepreneur. She is one of the leading experts analyzing segment trends and customer behavior for the telecom, network and infrastructure industries and co-owner of Compass Intelligence, a woman-owned market intelligence and consulting company. Mrs. Burney has become most trusted for her ability to identify and quantify emerging market opportunities, provide robust market data and diagnostics for several segments and the development of successful sales and target marketing strategies, which she has done for more than a decade. In May of 2008, Mrs. Burney used her market knowledge and expertise to launch Eyesoda.com, an interactive, streaming community where independent film lovers and filmmakers come together.

A trained economist, Ms. Burney's specialty in segmenting emerging and existing markets by size of business, vertical industry or other portent demographics, allows her clients to understand their current landscape and more successfully plan for the future. Ms. Burney leverages on-going research (economic, secondary and primary) and detailed analysis of key topics in both the business and consumer markets, in tandem with insights from key thinkers in many of the largest and/or fastest growing companies in many industries, giving her a unique, "multi-dimensional" perspective on several markets.

In addition to being a well-known analyst in the telecom and high-tech industries, Ms. Burney's research has been used by several government agencies for policy development and industry review. These agencies include the Department of Commerce, the Federal Communications Commission and the Small Business Administration. Ms. Burney has also been on the board of advisors for several high-tech ventures, chaired well-known eBusiness events in the U.S. and is a keynote speaker for several shows, conferences and summits. She has been featured in Fortune Small Business Magazine and also has been regularly quoted in several business and trade publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Baron's Investors Daily, USAToday, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Wired, and Information Week.

Ms. Burney holds a dual B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, as well as an M.A. in Mathematical Economics from Boston University.  She resides in Scottsdale Arizona and part-time in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with her family.