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Shawn Dennis

Venture Partner at WomensVCFund

Greater Madison Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - Current

  • Venture Partner

    2020

    https://www.womensvcfund.com/team/

  • Founding Board Member

    2019

  • Founding Board Member

    2019

  • National Board Member, Chair of the Marketing and Communications Committee

    2018

    National Board Member, Chair of the Marketing and Communications Committee, Chair of the Brain Health and Healthy Aging task force, Chair of the Youth eSports Task Force, Member of the Business Insights Commitee

  • Adjunct Professor

    2020

    Teaching full time and Executive MBA's Board Governance and Business and Society classes.

  • Board Member

    2009

    Board member for the University of Wisconsin school of business in their Consumer Products and Brand Management specialty, supporting full time students, advising and teaching.

  • Board Member

    2018

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2020

  • President

    2018 - 2019

    Girl power multimedia company, GoldieBlox, has named Shawn Dennis as its President. Based out of the company's Los Angeles office, Dennis will work side by side with CEO and Founder Debbie Sterling as GoldieBlox scales beyond a toy company into a global franchise that spans entertainment, digital media and consumer products. Dennis will oversee expanded revenue, product, entertainment, licensing and strategic partnerships for the brand.

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2019

    Served as independent board member for this 75-year-old children’s publishing and entertainment brand. Drove new thinking around content expansion off the page and onto appropriate social media outlets to reach a new generation of families. Built scalable consumer products’ wholesale concepts that resulted in company doubling its early education toy businesses.

  • EVP / Head of Brand and Franchise Development / Senior Strategic Business Leader

    2012 - 2017

    Trailblazed profitable new businesses for this animation studio, laying the groundwork for its successful sale to Comcast/Universal Pictures. Drove business development, expansion, and engagement by guiding, influencing, and directing launch of new content brands, existing and prospective film/TV franchises, and ancillary businesses. Formulated business growth, playbook, and global retail activation plans for all franchises and characters across all business units.

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