Kevin Doerr

SVP, GM

2024 - Current

Founder

2022

Chief Product Officer

2023 - 2023

Founder, Managing Partner

2010 - 2022

Co-founded venture-based incubation firm focused on consumer mobile services. Actively involved in fund-raising, evaluating and investing capital, as well as managing portfolio investments.

Chief Product Officer

2020 - 2021

SVP/GM Engineering, Domains and Security

2016 - 2020

While with GoDaddy, I served as SVP/GM Engineering for the Domain and Security groups. My team(s) were responsible for serving 20M domain customers and running one of the internet’s largest DNS platforms. I led a global team of talented minds who developed and managed world-class apps and services that ran on top of a high-scale, high availability and highly distributed system. I also built and led a team (organic and acquisition)(of infosec talent focused on protecting every aspect of our customer digital ventures, providing high quality code monitoring, anti-malware, SSL, CDN, WAF and DDoS mitigation. My team(s) were accountable for more than half of the company's revenue and consistently delivered annual double-digit growth during my leadership.

EVP, GM Digital

2013 - 2015

Senior Executive responsible for digital consumer division, including P&L across all functional lines; including planning, product management, design, engineering, test and business operations. Drove core development teams, product strategy and roadmaps for Weather.com and Weather Underground. Deeply engaged in developing underlying architecture, service layers, API's, user experience. Managed team of 150+ engineers, product, design and operations personnel, driving 40% annual growth in web and mobile businesses. Highlights: Re-engineered existing digital infrastructure across mobile and web (modernized base platforms to angular, scala, drupal, robust API’s and put heavier focus on native mobile development). Created consistent design, interaction and international capability across broad mobile portfolio and synchronized with web/mobile web. Resulted in 42% YoY mobile revenue growth and huge improvements in daily engagement. Refactored instrumentation and developed initial audience data model; capturing 1st party data and enhancing advertising targeting capabilities. Worked with Apple, Google and other mobile leaders on partner engagement, launched Apple iOS Weather widget. Served on TWC leadership (ELT) team, representing digital business at BoD meetings, investor updates and media upfronts, successfully positioning product development team prior to acquisition by IBM (Closed Feb-16).

VP, Mobile Products

2011 - 2013

Senior Product Development Leader responsible for domestic and international (Beijing) teams. Managed product teams responsible for planning, product management, design, engineering and QA. Drove core feature development teams, product roadmaps, reviews and release cycles for Yahoo News, Flickr, Weather (Winner: Apple Design Award 2013), Answers and Search. Also includes legacy multi-device support fort J2ME experience in emerging markets. Directly managed relationships with key partners including Apple, Google, Samsung and others, including regular product reviews with partners, renewal and execution of strategic distribution agreements ranging from preload to API support.

SVP

2008 - 2011

Senior Executive responsible for product and business operations at social listings startup. Drove corporate strategy, business development, marketing, sales, partner and affiliate management and customer support. Additional responsibilities include support for fund-raising and board-related activities. Developed primary business and revenue strategy across multiple vertical channels. Drove product and marketing to enable transition from wholesale traffic distribution to higher margin direct sales model. Established key new business partnerships in content syndication and sales distribution. Helped establish and support key distribution relationships with major partners, including Facebook, Comcast, AOL, Microsoft and others. Crafted initial mobile and international strategy, including reseller relationships in CN, UK and other regions. Drove revenue from $1M to $10M annually. Grew customer base by 500%+, including development of new SMB self-serve revenue stream.

GM Premium Mobile Services

2007 - 2008