Kentico has appointed a new VP Engineering, Petr Svihlik, to deliver on the company’s long-term vision and the delivery of Xperience by Kentico, its hybrid headless DXP.
Brno, CZ & Bedford, NH, June 6, 2023—Today, Kentico, the award-winning provider of digital experience and content management solutions, announced the appointment of Petr Svihlik as VP Engineering who will support the company with its vision for its new product, Xperience by Kentico, which is starting to see real traction in the market.
Ever-strengthening leadership team
To deliver growth with its new product, Xperience by Kentico, Kentico continues to strengthen its leadership team by welcoming Petr Svihlik back to the company after two years at Microsoft, where he helped shape the Developer Experience for the Azure Communication Services.
Svihlik originally started working with Kentico back in 2007 as a software engineer and later as a tech lead. Then, in 2015 he re-joined the Kentico team to help raise the awareness of the developer communities and grew the impact and importance of the developer relations program in the company till his departure in 2021.
“I was lucky to be the founding member of Developer Relations in Kentico,” said Svihlik. “Over the years, I built and led a team of self-motivated and self-organized tech unicorns—folks who could wear many hats but were given the chance to stay true to the developer community and deliver the highest possible value.”
Kentico is delighted that Petr Svihlik is back to support the company in improving its long-term vision and the delivery of its future flagship product, Xperience by Kentico.
“Xperience by Kentico combines years of strong technical know-how with a suite of modern technologies,” shares Svihlik. “The DXP market faces some real challenges today, including navigating the world of increasingly commoditized content, responding to the democratization of technology, and paradigm shifts in software development. I think Kentico already has (and executes on) a solid vision and continues to think about problems yet to come."
Supporting customers’ digital experience maturity
Svihlik looks forward to supporting the company in strengthening and sharing its vision for Xperience by Kentico— the only true hybrid headless DXP solution on the market.
Kentico’s mission is to enable businesses to make the most out of every opportunity to engage with its customers irrespective of channel, and to help marketers expand their digital marketing capabilities, online presence, and digital maturity.
Kentico's vision for Xperience by Kentico is to help its customers become more digitally native by supporting them where they're at in their digital experience maturity journey, while also helping them get where they want to be as easily and affordably as possible, by embedding supportive AI technologies that encourage them to grow and expand their own capabilities.
“At Kentico, we understand that our customers need a flexible, customizable solution that will support their maturing capabilities,” says Dominik Pinter, CEO of Kentico. “The flexibility and extensibility of Xperience by Kentico, allows them to start with what they need now, secure in the knowledge that the solution will evolve to meet their changing needs as they embrace new technologies and grow.”
The Xperience by Kentico SaaS offering has an excellent time-to-market and benefits from monthly "refreshes”, giving customers access to all new capabilities as soon as they are developed.
Leading the charge with Kentico’s SaaS product is Deborah Tucek, who was recently appointed to the role of Director of Product, completing the company’s product leadership structure.
“With Xperience by Kentico, we are setting the stage for a new breed of DXP within the marketing industry—one that places the marketer in the driver's seat and delivers increasingly more value for them over the lifetime of their investment,” said Tucek. “I'm honored to be working with such an amazing team and am pleased to be a part of our SaaS journey.”
First Xperience by Kentico projects go live
The first live projects built on Xperience by Kentico are starting to flood in, and many others are still in development.
The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau wanted to modernize its website with a future-proof digital experience platform (DXP) that would enable them to better engage users with personalized experiences. With the help of Kentico Gold Partner Ntara, they now have an impressive new 3,500-page website on Xperience by Kentico, which not only provides them with improved functionality, more streamlined API calls, and better performance, but also the ability to create and deliver ultra-personalized experiences.
Meanwhile, German football club Mainz 05 chose Kentico partners kuehlhaus AG and Bluesoft to launch a new website on Xperience by Kentico that would mold around the club’s unique needs. Due to launch soon, the flexibility of the solution and the speed with which it is being developed is setting them up for a swift launch with planned ongoing development in sync with the roadmap of the DXP, adding features like Email Marketing and Cross-site Tracking.
About Kentico
Kentico is an award-winning provider of digital experience platforms that enable businesses to drive better outcomes with fewer resources using a hybrid headless approach for multichannel digital experiences. Its digital experience platform (DXP), Xperience by Kentico, minimizes overhead by focusing on real customer needs. With a wide set of capabilities, it empowers teams to deliver better customer experiences through multiple channels faster. Kentico offers market-leading support, SaaS or on-premises deployment, and is backed by a global network of implementation partners.
Kentico was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in the Czech Republic with offices in the US, UK, Germany, and Australia. Kentico has more than 500 digital solution partners and powers over 35,000 websites across 120 countries. Customers working with Kentico include Allergan, Ingram Micro, Konica Minolta, Land O’ Lakes, PPG, and Red Cross.