Adam Nash

Adam Nash

Sr. Director, Product at LinkedIn

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Sr. Director, Product & User Experience at LinkedIn
Past
  • Product Manager at Preview Systems, Inc.
  • Senior Software Engineer at Preview Systems, Inc.
  • Software Engineer at Apple
  • Software Development and Design Internship at Trilogy
  • Software Research Internship at Interval Research
  • Software Design Internship at HP
  • Software Internship at NASA Ames Research Center

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Education
  • Harvard Business School
  • Stanford University
  • Stanford University
  • Pinewood High School

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Adam Nash’s Summary

A seasoned technology executive and general manager with experience across engineering, product management, product strategy, and venture capital. Focus on identifying business opportunities around emerging technologies and leading teams to design great products to address them. Strong passion for innovation and entrepreneurship with an affinity for public speaking and product evangelism.

Adam Nash’s Specialties:

General Management, Product Management, Product Process, Product Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Internet Business Models, Web 2.0, E-Commerce, Social Networking, User Experience, Customer-Centric Design, Behavioral Finance, Economics, Public Speaking, Public Relations, Community Management.

Adam Nash’s Experience

  • Sr. Director, Product & User Experience

    LinkedIn

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

    May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

    Responsibilities include:
    - Leading the product strategy & design for the high volume pages and flows for the site, including the Homepage, Profile, Search & 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)

  • Teaching Assistant, CS 193P: iPhone Application Development

    Stanford University

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)

    Assisting with the curriculum creation, lecture plan, grading, and overall responsibilities for the first programming course for Apple iPhone development at Stanford University.

    More information can be found at:
    http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/

  • Director, eBay Express North America

    eBay, Inc.

    (Internet industry)

    March 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 3 months)

    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.

  • Associate Partner

    Atlas Venture

    (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    May 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 8 months)

    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.

  • Product Manager

    Preview Systems, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; PRVW; Computer Software industry)

    August 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 5 months)

    -- 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.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Preview Systems, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; PRVW; Computer Software industry)

    January 1998 — August 1998 (8 months)

    -- 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++.

  • Software Engineer

    Apple

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    June 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 8 months)

    * Software Engineer, WebObjects
    -- 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.

  • Software Development and Design Internship

    Trilogy

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1995 — September 1995 (4 months)

    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.

  • Software Research Internship

    Interval Research

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1994 — September 1994 (4 months)

    -- Designed and implemented a proprietary social evolution model for the Exploratory Research Group. C/C++ development on SGI IRIX, visualization using OpenGL & Quicktime SDK.

  • Software Design Internship

    HP

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

    June 1993 — September 1993 (4 months)

    * 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.

  • Software Internship

    NASA Ames Research Center

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

    September 1990 — May 1991 (9 months)

    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%).

Adam Nash’s Education

  • Harvard Business School

    MBA , Business , January 2000 — June 2001

    Activities and Societies:
    Section H, VCPE, High Tech & New Media

  • Stanford University

    MS , Computer Science , 1995 — 1997

    Specialization in Human Computer Interaction. Additional coursework in Systems & Advanced Computer Graphics.

    Activities and Societies:
    Coordinator for CS 198: Teaching Computer Science, Teaching Assistant for CS 108: Introduction to Object Oriented programming.

  • Stanford University

    BS , Computer Science , 1991 — 1995

    David Starr Jordan Presidential Scholar, National Merit Scholar

    Activities and Societies:
    CS 106 Section Leaders, CS 198 Coordinator, Larkin, Kappa Alpha, IM Volleyball

  • Pinewood High School

    1987 — 1991

    Valedictorian

    Activities and Societies:
    Volleyball, Speech & Debate, Yearbook, Drama

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Adam Nash’s Honors:

-- 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.
-- 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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