Adam Nash
Computer Science degree and MSc degree from Stanford University, MBA from Harvard Business School. Currently working at LinkedIn as Sr. Director.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://blog.adamnash.com |
| Skills: | Business, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Management, Public Relations, Public speaking |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Harvard Business School, Stanford University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | |
| Position: | Sr. Director, Product |
| Time period: | May 2007 - Present |
| Description: | Responsibilities include:
- Leading the product strategy & design for the high volume pages and flows for the site, including the Homepage, Profile & Registration flows. - The User Experience & Design team, including both Web Development and Design - The overall product process across our cross-functional technology teams - Human capital & financial operations for the Product organization - Public representation of LinkedIn, including both press & public speaking engagements - Acted as Sr. Director for the Core Experience engineering team, responsible for the development of the key pages of the LinkedIn consumer web site responsible for the vast majority of all page views on the site. (Feb - June, 2008) |
| Employer: | eBay, Inc. |
| Position: | Director, eBay Express North America |
| Time period: | March 2003 - May 2007 |
| Description: | General manager for the team responsible for eBay Express North America, eBay's new shopping site for new, fixed-price products. 1.5M customers, 3.5M visitors/week, $140M sales run rate, Top 100 e-tailer in the first twelve months.
Previous roles at eBay include: * Led the product teams responsible for eBay's fixed-price shopping sites, including eBay Express, Half.com, and Shopping.com. * Led the product design & execution for eBay Express, which scaled to include over 17 product managers and a cross-functional team of over 600 people. * Defined product features for eBay Stores, the largest provider of e-commerce storefronts online, with over 250K storefronts in the US. * Defined product features and strategy for search classification & infrastructure supporting the eBay marketplace. * Defined product features and product strategy in support of the eBay business units dedicated to Computers, Electronics and Business & Industrial categories, categories with over $5B in sales. |
| Employer: | Atlas Venture |
| Position: | Associate Partner |
| Time period: | May 2001 - December 2002 |
| Description: | Atlas Venture is a $2.1B early stage venture capital firm specializing in Software, Communications, and Life Sciences investments. As the Associate Partner for Menlo Park, key responsibilities included supporting Senior Partners in Menlo Park and Seattle, evaluating investment opportunities, working with portfolio companies, board observer duties, internal financial analysis, technical due diligence, and sourcing new investment opportunities. |
| Employer: | Preview Systems, Inc. |
| Position: | Senior Software Engineer |
| Time period: | January 1998 - August 1998 |
| Description: | -- Designed and developed new user experience for Preview Systems consumer software.
-- Responsible for all human interface design issues across Engineering. -- Implemented the Vbox# 4.x client interface in Win32 SDK C/C++. |
| Employer: | Preview Systems, Inc. |
| Position: | Product Manager |
| Time period: | August 1997 - December 1998 |
| Description: | -- Defined, managed, and launched the first cross-platform version of the ZipLock# System for electronic content distribution.
-- Managed internal and external design, development, and testing of the new suite of Macintosh tools, client software, and related server components for initial launch and subsequent incremental product cycles. -- Total product budget over $500,000; team of eight to ten dedicated engineers in development and QA. -- Managed research, prototyping, and planning for cross-platform Java-based client products. -- Championed human interface design processes and issues across Preview Systems. |
| Employer: | Apple |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | June 1996 - January 1998 |
| Description: | -- Developed portions of a new multi-tied Java development system based on WebObjects(tm) and the Enterprise Objects Framework in JDK 1.1 and Swing on Windows NT and early versions of Mac OS X.
* Software Research Internship, Advanced Technology Group -- Rearchitected portions of a multimedia authoring interface prototype around document-based components and collaborated on a light, object-oriented framework for distributed game development. |
| Employer: | Trilogy |
| Position: | Software Development and Design Internship |
| Time period: | June 1995 - September 1995 |
| Description: | Assisted in the chartering of the Human Interaction Design group at Trilogy.
-- Designed and implemented guidelines for future group project development. -- Designed and implemented a custom application development prototype for Trilogy consultants. |
| Employer: | Interval Research |
| Position: | Software Research Internship |
| Time period: | June 1994 - September 1994 |
| Description: | -- Designed and implemented a proprietary social evolution model for the Exploratory Research Group. C/C++ development on SGI IRIX, visualization using OpenGL & Quicktime SDK. |
| Employer: | HP |
| Position: | Software Design Internship |
| Time period: | June 1993 - September 1993 |
| Description: | * Internship, Scientific Instruments Division
-- Implemented database applications to track and integrate global daily production information. Development in Microsoft Access & Visual Basic, integration with HP/UX. |
| Employer: | NASA Ames Research Center |
| Position: | Software Internship |
| Time period: | September 1990 - May 1991 |
| Description: | Designed and developed software to test computational fluid dynamics algorithms on Cray XMP & YMP machines as a substitute for certain types of wind tunnel prototype evaluations. Software development in Fortran.
Part of a high school internship program with NASA Ames involving 1 day a week time commitment (20%). |
EDUCATION
| University: | Harvard Business School |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2001 |
| Degree: | Business, MBA |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 1995 - 1997 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 1991 - 1995 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | -- Coordinator, CS 198, Stanford CS 106 Section Leaders, 1996-7.
-- Founder and President, Stanford Software Developers' Network, 1996-7. -- Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Object-Oriented Development, 1995-6. -- President, Kappa Alpha Order, Alpha Pi Chapter, 1995-6. |
| Awards: | -- David Starr Jordan President's Scholar, Stanford University, 1991.
-- 2nd Place, State of California, Extemporaneous Speaking, 1991. -- Science Honors Research, NASA - Ames Research Center, 1990-1991. |
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Reid Hoffman
www.linkedin.com/in/reidhoffman
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Doug Mandell
Attorney and entrepreneur. Founder of boutique law firm with expertise in advising startups. Former general counsel of three startups and was most recently General Counsel of LinkedIn Corporation.
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David Weekly
EIR @ Trinity Ventures. Founder of PBworks, Hacker Dojo, Mexican.VC.