A seasoned technology executive and general manager with experience across engineering, product management, product strategy, and venture capital. Focus on identifying business opportunities around emerging technologies and leading teams to design great products to address them. Strong passion for innovation and entrepreneurship with an affinity for public speaking and product evangelism.
Specialties: General Management, Product Management, Product Process, Product Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Internet Business Models, Web 2.0, E-Commerce, Social Networking, User Experience, Customer-Centric Design, Behavioral Finance, Economics, Public Speaking, Public Relations, Community Management.
President & CEO @ Wealthfront is the largest & fastest-growing automated investment service with over $2 Billion in client assets under management. We believe that everyone deserves sophisticated financial advice.
The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and has received over $129M in funding from investors including DAG Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock Partners, Benchmark, Social+Capital Partnership & Spark Growth Capital. From January 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) Palo Alto, CABoard of Directors, Observer @ ToyTalk is a family entertainment company. Their mission is to create entertainment powered by characters and conversation.
ToyTalk has raised a total of more than $16M in funding from Greylock Partners, Charles River Ventures, True Ventures, and First Round Capital as well as a number of angel investors. From November 2011 to Present (4 years) San Francisco Bay AreaBoard of Directors, Observer @ Wrapp offers a fun and easy way for consumers to exchange free gift cards and for retailers to reach the best possible consumers.
Joined as an investor and board observer in December 2011. From December 2011 to Present (3 years 11 months) Stockholm, SwedenBoard of Directors @ From June 2011 to Present (4 years 5 months) Palo Alto, CABoard of Advisors @ From May 2011 to May 2015 (4 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaMentor @ From September 2011 to June 2014 (2 years 10 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaMentor @ From September 2010 to June 2014 (3 years 10 months) Mountain View, CAExecutive in Residence @ * Advise the leadership teams of the firm's existing consumer technology companies
* Evaluate new investment opportunities and work with entrepreneurs on the next big thing From October 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 3 months) Menlo Park, CAVice President, Product Management @ May 2009 - August 2011
- Led the product strategy, design & execution for LinkedIn search & cloud products.
- Led the product strategy, design & execution for the LinkedIn developer platform. Launched open developer platform and grew developer base from under 30 to 40,000+ and 180,000+ domains.
- Led the product strategy, design & execution for LinkedIn mobile, growing engagement from 1% to over 13% of all unique visits.
- Responsible for the creation, development & execution for LinkedIn Hackdays, LinkedIn's most significant internal program for cultivating internal technical talent & innovation.
- Responsible for talent acquisition & hiring across the LinkedIn product organization.
- Public representation of LinkedIn, including both press & public speaking engagements
May 2007 - August 2009
- Led the product strategy & design for the high volume pages and flows for the site, including the Homepage, Profile, User Acquisition & Registration flows. Also responsible for our International & Site Speed efforts.
May 2007 - June 2009
- Formed and led the LinkedIn User Experience & Design team, including both Web Development and Design.
- Responsible for the overall product process across our cross-functional teams.
Feb 2008 - June 2008
- Acted as Sr. Director for the Core Experience engineering team, responsible for the development of the key pages of the LinkedIn consumer web site responsible for the vast majority of all page views on the site. From May 2007 to August 2011 (4 years 4 months) Mountain View, CATeaching Assistant, CS 193P: iPhone Application Development @ Assisting with the curriculum creation, lecture plan, grading, and overall responsibilities for the first programming course for Apple iPhone development at Stanford University.
More information can be found at:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/ From August 2008 to December 2008 (5 months) Stanford, CADirector, eBay Express North America @ General manager for the team responsible for eBay Express North America, eBay's new shopping site for new, fixed-price products. 1.5M customers, 3.5M visitors/week, $140M sales run rate, Top 100 e-tailer in the first twelve months.
Previous roles at eBay include:
* Led the product teams responsible for eBay's fixed-price shopping sites, including eBay Express, Half.com, and Shopping.com.
* Led the product design & execution for eBay Express, which scaled to include over 17 product managers and a cross-functional team of over 600 people.
* Defined product features for eBay Stores, the largest provider of e-commerce storefronts online, with over 250K storefronts in the US.
* Defined product features and strategy for search classification & infrastructure supporting the eBay marketplace.
* Defined product features and product strategy in support of the eBay business units dedicated to Computers, Electronics and Business & Industrial categories, categories with over $5B in sales. From March 2003 to May 2007 (4 years 3 months) San Jose, CAAssociate Partner @ Atlas Venture is a $2.1B early stage venture capital firm specializing in Software, Communications, and Life Sciences investments. As the Associate Partner for Menlo Park, key responsibilities included supporting Senior Partners in Menlo Park and Seattle, evaluating investment opportunities, working with portfolio companies, board observer duties, internal financial analysis, technical due diligence, and sourcing new investment opportunities. From May 2001 to December 2002 (1 year 8 months) Menlo Park, CAProduct Manager @ August 1998 – December 1999
-- Defined, managed, and launched the first cross-platform version of the ZipLock™ System for electronic content distribution.
-- Managed internal and external design, development, and testing of the new suite of Macintosh tools, client software, and related server components for initial launch and subsequent incremental product cycles.
-- Total product budget over $500,000; team of eight to ten dedicated engineers in development and QA.
-- Managed research, prototyping, and planning for cross-platform Java-based client products.
-- Championed human interface design processes and issues across Preview Systems.
January 1998 – August 1998
Senior Software Engineer, User Experience
-- Designed and developed new user experience for Preview Systems consumer software.
-- Responsible for all human interface design issues across Engineering.
-- Implemented the Vbox™ 4.x client interface in Win32 SDK C/C++. From January 1998 to December 1999 (2 years) Cupertino, CASoftware Engineer @ * Software Engineer, WebObjects
-- Developed portions of a new multi-tier Java development system based on WebObjects(tm) and the Enterprise Objects Framework in JDK 1.1 and Swing on Windows NT and early versions of Mac OS X.
* Software Research Internship, Advanced Technology Group
-- Rearchitected portions of a multimedia authoring interface prototype around document-based components and collaborated on a light, object-oriented framework for distributed game development. From June 1996 to January 1998 (1 year 8 months) Cupertino, CASoftware Development and Design Internship @ Assisted in the chartering of the Human Interaction Design group at Trilogy.
-- Designed and implemented guidelines for future group project development.
-- Designed and implemented a custom application development prototype for Trilogy consultants. From June 1995 to September 1995 (4 months) Austin, TXSoftware Research Internship @ -- Designed and implemented a proprietary social evolution model for the Exploratory Research Group. C/C++ development on SGI IRIX, visualization using OpenGL & Quicktime SDK. From June 1994 to September 1994 (4 months) Palo Alto, CASoftware Design Internship @ * Internship, Scientific Instruments Division
-- Implemented database applications to track and integrate global daily production information. Development in Microsoft Access & Visual Basic, integration with HP/UX. From June 1993 to September 1993 (4 months) Software Internship @ Designed and developed software in Fortran to test computational fluid dynamics algorithms on Cray XMP & YMP machines as a substitute for certain types of wind tunnel prototype evaluations. Software development in Fortran.
Part of a high school internship program with NASA Ames involving 1 day a week time commitment (20%). From September 1990 to May 1991 (9 months)
MBA, Business @ Harvard Business School From January 2000 to 2001 MS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 1995 to 1997 BS, Computer Science @ Stanford University From 1991 to 1995 Pinewood High School From 1987 to 1991 Adam Nash is skilled in: Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Strategy, User Experience, Jedi Mind Trick, Reality Distortion Field, Innovation, Corporate Culture, Hackday, Social Networking, Venture Capital, E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, Web 2.0, Interaction Design, Blogging, User Interface Design, Private Equity, Mobile, Entrepreneur, Start-ups, Cloud Computing, Social Media Marketing, Product Development, Mobile Applications, Strategic Partnerships, Web Analytics, Search, Competitive Analysis, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Mobile Internet, Analytics, SEO, New Business Development, SaaS, Team Leadership, Team Building, Software Development, Mobile Product..., Mobile Devices, Gamification, Inspiring People, LinkedIn API, Search Engine Technology, Viral Marketing, Product Strategies, T-shirts, Social Games
Websites:
http://blog.adamnash.com,
http://tinyurl.com/c36lbl,
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