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Val Agostino

Internet entrepreneur and product manager. Passionate about creating user experiences.

Headline: Startup Member
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://www.mint.com
Industries: Internet
Skills: AJAX, Business, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Facebook platform, Fiction, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product design, Rails, Retail, Software Engineering, Viral marketing, Web design, Web Development, Writing
Location: Mountain View, CA
Groups: BASES, London Business School Entrepreneurship Club
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: London Business School, University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Mint.com
Position: Director of Product Management
Time period: February 2008 - Present

Employer: Karmony
Position: Co-founder & CEO
Time period: August 2007 - Present

Employer: eBags
Position: General Manager/Managing Director, International
Time period: June 2004 - August 2007
Description: Moved to England and established eBags' European business. Hired and trained staff. Aggressively ramped revenue with full P&L responsibility.

Employer: eBags
Position: Director of Software
Time period: January 2002 - June 2004
Description: Oversaw product management for entire company, including 5 high volume consumer sites; internal applications for marketing, merchandising and fulfillment functions; and external supply chain solutions supporting 400+ drop-ship suppliers.

Employer: eBags
Position: Web Applications Manager
Time period: March 1999 - January 2002
Description: Joined company pre-launch, responsible for product management of consumer sites (including eBags.com). Hired and trained team, and developed internal product and software development processes.

EDUCATION

University: London Business School
Time period: 2005 - 2007
Degree: MBA, MBA

University: University of Michigan System - Ann Arbor
Time period: 1993 - 1997
Degree: Environmental Engineering, BEng

INFORMATION

Sports: Snowboarding
Hobbies: Black belt in Tae Kwon Do, avid digital photographer, weekend Ruby on Rails hacker
Memberships: BayCHI

Val's Contacts (4)

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  • Chris Hohman

    Mechanical Engineering graduate from California Polytechnic State University with MBA from Santa Clara University. Currently working as Product Line Manager – Create Suite Business Unit at Adobe Systems, Inc.

  • Amita Paul

    Founder, ObjectiveMarketer. 10+ years Product Management experience in Software Industry. Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Ediscover domain expertise. MBA in Marketing and Strategy. MS in Computer Science.

  • Jon Nordmark

    Founded eBags.com in 1997-8. CEO from start-up to mid-2008. Started Wambo which invested in UsingMiles.com. Became CEO of UsingMiles in January 2011.