Shawn Dennis
Venture Partner at WomensVCFund
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.