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James Park

Founder of Fitbit

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

James Park is the Co-Founder of Fitbit and currently serves on the boards of Kraft-Heinz and SFMOMA. He has a successful track record in the tech industry, having previously held executive roles at Google and CNET Networks. Park's career highlights include founding Fitbit, a leading wearable technology company, and serving as the Vice President and General Manager of Health and Wearables at Google.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2022 - Current

Kraft Heinz is a multinational food and beverage company offering a diverse range of condiments, sauces, snacks, cheese, and frozen foods.

Raised $20,000,000.00.

  • VP and GM, Health and Wearables

    2021 - 2024

    Fitbit, Pixel Watch

Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.

Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2007 - 2021

    Founded 2007. IPO NYSE 2015. Acquisition by Google 2021

Fitbit offers compact, wireless, wearable sensors that track a person’s daily activities in order to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Raised $66,000,000.00 from Sapphire Ventures, True Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Foundry Group and SoftBank Capital.

  • Director of Product Development

    2005 - 2007

    Managed a team of designers, product managers and engineers for the Community Business unit at CNET

CNET is an online platform that provides tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, podcasts, how to's, and more.

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Spark Capital and TCV.

  • President and Co-Founder

    2002 - 2005

    Digital photo editing and P2P photo sharing technology. Acquired by CNET Networks in 2005.

  • CTO and Co-Founder

    1999 - 2001

    B2B integration software

  • Peon

    1998 - 1999

    Did financial analysis and programming for a quantitive trading fund called Equity Plus

Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.

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