--- title: About Ken Pomella | Founder, CEO and Business Coach description: "Ken Pomella is the founder and CEO of RevStar and a coach for business owners. His story: a life in technology, a health reset, and why the people matter most." --- [Skip to content](https://kenpomella.com/about#main-content) [![Ken Pomella](https://kenpomella.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Website/Ken%20Logo%20Final-Web-no-bg.png?width=200&height=32&name=Ken%20Logo%20Final-Web-no-bg.png)](https://kenpomella.com/) Menu - [Work With Me](https://kenpomella.com/work-with-me) - [My Approach](https://kenpomella.com/my-approach) - [Navigating AI](https://kenpomella.com/navigating-ai) - Resources - [AI Readiness Assessment](https://kenpomella.com/lp/ai-readiness-assessment) - [Small Business AI Guide](https://kenpomella.com/lp/small-business-ai-guide) - [Small Business Toolkit](https://kenpomella.com/small-business-technology-toolkit) - [Insights](https://kenpomella.com/blog) - About - [My Story](https://kenpomella.com/about) - [Podcasts](https://kenpomella.com/podcasts) - [Webinars](https://kenpomella.com/webinars) - [Articles](https://kenpomella.com/articles) [Start a Conversation](https://kenpomella.com/contact) About Ken # I've spent my life building things. The hardest part was never the technology. I'm a founder, a CEO, and a coach for business owners. I bring real experience from building a company, and a deep belief that the best answers come from the people doing the work. [Start a conversation](https://kenpomella.com/contact) ![Ken Pomella](https://kenpomella.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Website/Ken%20Headshot-6_square.jpg?width=960&height=720&name=Ken%20Headshot-6_square.jpg) My story ## A life in technology I grew up in Chicago with parents who worked in technology. There are pictures of me on a computer at about two years old. I went from building my own computers to designing websites for people, to a career in software engineering, and then to freelancing in IT. After I moved to Tampa, I started my own company. In 2018 I founded RevStar. We began as a software development shop, and as technology changed, we grew into helping businesses put AI to work. Tampa's tech scene grew up around us, and we grew right along with it. ## The reset Before I started RevStar, I was running hard on high-growth business operations, and my health quietly slid to the bottom of the list. Eventually my body made it clear that something had to change. So I rebuilt how I live and work: regular exercise, real sleep and recovery, deliberate eating, and firm lines between work and home. It changed how I lead. I learned that you can't run a business well for the long haul if you're running yourself into the ground, and that the life around the business isn't separate from the business. ## The lesson that changed how I work At RevStar, we once delivered a major cloud and data transformation that was built well, and then watched adoption stall completely. The problem wasn't the technology. It was friction inside the organization and leaders who weren't ready to change their habits. I'd seen versions of that story for years, but that one stuck. The technology is rarely the bottleneck. What decides success is alignment, how leaders show up, clear communication, and whether people buy in. ## Why I coach There's nothing I find more rewarding than helping an owner get past a plateau, see their situation clearly, and step into what the business needs from them next. Coaching lets me do that with real experience behind it: I've felt the pressure, made the mistakes, and come through the other side. I still run RevStar. Coaching is how I want to spend more of my time, working closely with a small number of owners and leadership teams. What I believe ## The principles behind my work. - ### You know your business best My role is to help you see more clearly, not to tell you who to be. - ### Clarity creates choices When you see what's really going on, better options show up. - ### The whole person matters Your energy, health and life outside work shape the results as much as strategy does. - ### Insight needs action Real change comes from doing something with what you learn, and having someone hold you to it. - ### Experience beats theory I share what I've lived, not what I read in a book, and I'm honest about what I don't know. - ### Trust comes first Good work happens when you can say what's really on your mind. Along the way ## A few highlights - Founder and CEO of RevStar, founded in 2018 - Emerging Tech Leader of the Year, Tampa Bay Tech Awards 2024 - Titan 100 honoree, 2026 - Member of the Forbes Technology Council - Guest on more than a dozen podcasts about AI, business and entrepreneurship, including a conversation about balancing health and ambition - Mentor to startups and small businesses, and proud to give back to the Tampa Bay community [Listen to podcasts](https://kenpomella.com/podcasts)[Read articles](https://kenpomella.com/articles) ## Let's talk about where you are. If any of this sounds familiar, I'd like to hear your story. [Start a conversation](https://kenpomella.com/contact) [![Ken Pomella](https://kenpomella.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Website/Ken%20Logo%20Final-Web-no-bg.png?width=180&height=29&name=Ken%20Logo%20Final-Web-no-bg.png)](https://kenpomella.com/) Coaching for business owners and leadership teams. The business, the people, and the life around it. 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