About Kristen

Kristen Frey is the Chief Marketing & People Officer at Upwing Energy. She has 20 years of experience defining marketing and organizational strategies and 15 years of experience creating and growing start-up companies.

She specializes in driving external communications efforts for early stage companies that effectively differentiate their market positioning, while building out and managing their internal operations infrastructure and talent to support organic growth.

She is dedicated to enhancing and leveraging people initiatives that build strong company cultures and generate business outcomes through strategic talent management, talent acquisition, training and leadership development and employee engagement.

Previously, Kristen was the Vice President of Corporate Operations and Communications at Upwing. Prior to joining Upwing, she served as the Director of Marketing for Calnetix Technologies and its spin-off companies VYCON, Access Energy and Direct Drive Systems (DDS) from 2008 to 2016. She was instrumental in the sale and transition of DDS to FMC Technologies in 2009. Previously, Kristen held multiple marketing, operations and communications management roles in the oil and gas industry, including positions with ORYXE Energy, Gulf Oil, Conocophillips, Tosco and Mobil Oil. Kristen holds an MBA from California State University, Long Beach and a B.A. in Public Relations with a Minor in Sociology from the University of Georgia.