Austin Under 40 Finalist 2021. CEO of Award-Winning Agency & Trusted Growth Partner of Fortune 50 x Start-Up Brands. Focusing on Innovative x Mission-Driven Strategies to Get Results While Making a Difference.

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Austin Under 40 Finalist 2021. CEO of Award-Winning Agency & Trusted Growth Partner of Fortune 50 x Start-Up Brands. Focusing on Innovative x Mission-Driven Strategies to Get Results While Making a Difference.


Kana LiVolsi is a leader in digital marketing & advocate for the empowerment of minorities and females in business. A featured speaker with General Assembly, The Riveter, Social Media Week, Austin Start-up Week, Guaranteed to Wrinkle, and more, she is a mentor for SXSW, SKU, MassChallenge and the Kendra Scott Entrepreneurship Program at UT, was recently announced as a finalist for the 2021 Austin Under 40 Awards, is an Austin Business Journal’s 2020 Profiles in Power: Central Texas Women of Influence Nominee along with other notable female leaders.

For over a decade, Kana focused on entertainment media, working in production for companies such as NBC, HBO, Showtime, BBC, Nike and MTV (every department from pre to post/marketing, including a brief stint in stunts) and transitioning into the digital publishing industry creating strategies for publishers and retailers such as Harper-Collins Publishing, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Cox Media, Conde Nast, Google, Apple, Sony and Amazon. A pioneer in the eBook space, her creative campaigns as Marketing Director for BooksOnBoard included work with a wide array of partners from Tyra Banks, to the Daytime Emmys and Nascar, and helped the virtually unknown eCommerce store grow to be the #1 largest independent eBookstore in the world, #3 overall behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Kana’s diverse experience has ingrained a deep understanding of brand and creative strategy across consumer markets. This insight provides her with the tools to pivot under high pressure situations and create out-of-the-box opportunities for her clients for more impactful business development opportunities. All of which has allowed her to adapt quickly to meet the needs of Dos Mundos’ high-end clientele.