Angelo Keely — Co-Founder & CEO of Kion

I build healthy, high-performance teams and premium nutritional brands that help people live fun, active, and fulfilling lives.

Through Kion, we’ve served over 500,000 customers, and I’ve shared our work and ideas on 100+ podcasts focused on health, leadership, and building values-driven companies.

If I had to describe myself in five sentences, I would say…

1. I am passionate about staying in motion, creating momentum, living the most fulfilling life, and helping others do the same.

2. I hold family, health, and growth as my top three values.

3. I thrive in creative, driven cultures that expect tightly managed timelines and welcome spontaneous vocal jams.

4. I believe the underlying culture of a group and the emotional experience of the individuals within it guides most interactions.

5. I enjoy far-out brainstorming followed by clear action lists, detailed planning, and execution.

Family. Health. Growth.

I was born in Austin, Texas into an eccentric, hippy family. We were weird, but my parents were ahead of their time when it came to their understanding of health and nutrition. They owned a health food store, and I was raised on a foundation of organic, mostly vegetarian, whole food ingredients, and an array of daily supplements (not surprisingly, essential amino acids being very important).

I had a series of traumatic accidents in my adolescence and early adulthood that kickstarted my own, more personal health journey. I dove headfirst into nutrition research, meditation, yoga, breathwork, cold and heat therapy, acupuncture, psychotherapy, and religious studies.

My journey led me to study multiple languages, develop an international career in Europe and India, and ultimately found Kion.

I am relentlessly oriented to creativity, fun, and execution. And I love to help organizations, teams, and individuals grow. I believe that the work we are doing at Kion is helping our employees and customers live healthier, happier, more active lives.

My wife and two children are the highlight of my life. I experience the most fun and fulfillment being with them.

I’m also a multi-instrumentalist and love to make music with unique variations of vocals, drums, piano, and guitar.