Karl Laughton is president and chief operating officer at Insightly, a CRM provider with more than 1.5 million users in 25,000 businesses covering 180 countries. Laughton has a broad perspective on the tech industry through the various roles he has held. During his time at Cisco Systems, he worked within the corporate development and structured finance organizations, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and strategic buy side corporate deal making.