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Geoff Harris

Managing Partner at Flying Fish Partners

Seattle, Washington

Overview 

Geoff Harris is the Managing Partner at Flying Fish Partners in Seattle, Washington, with a background in cloud computing, product planning, and software development. Highlights of his career include co-founding Flying Fish Partners and holding key leadership roles at Microsoft, where he managed products like Zune and Windows Media Player.

Work Experience 

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Flying Fish Partners

  • Co-Founder, Managing Partner

    2016 - Current

    Early stage software technology investment firm investing in the Pacific Northwest.

​Flying Fish is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in applied AI/ML startups as well as supporting tools and infrastructure.

flyingfish.vc
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Placements.io

  • Investor

    2014

Placements.io is the monetization infrastructure for companies that sell media.

Raised $4,900,000.00 from Revel Partners, Vulcan Capital, Espresso Capital, Alpine Meridian, Vulcan Capital, Ravi Belani, Alchemist Accelerator, Sand Hill Angels and Alliance of Angels.

placements.io

Self Employed

  • Angel Investor, Advisor

    2013

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Microsoft

  • Partner Group Program Manager - Bing Speech and NLP

    2012 - 2013

  • General Manager - Speech@Microsoft

    2010 - 2012

  • General Manager - Mobile Services

    2007 - 2010

  • Product Unit Manager - Zune

    2007 - 2007

  • Product Unit Manager - Windows Media Player

    2003 - 2007

  • Program Manager

    1998 - 2003

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

about.ads.microsoft.com
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Andersen Consulting

  • Consultant

    1994 - 1998

    Consulting focused on Engineering Processes and Data Management. Clients included Harley-Davidson, ABB, Siemens, Microsoft and AT&T Wireless

Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.

accenture.com

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