Adam Kalsey

Current

R&D at Voxeo
Founder at SacStarts

Past

Founder at IMified
VP Products at WorkHabit
VP, Products at Farros Capital

Founder at Feed Crier
CTO at Pheedo
Principal at Kalsey Consulting Group (Sole Proprietorship)
Director, Product Management at Realty Plus Online
Business Process Engineer at Pandesic
Technology Director at The Marketing Store

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Adam Kalsey’s Summary

I'm a product guy at heart. There's nothing better than building a great product that excites and delights customers. No matter the role I've held in a company, the key has always been the product. Founder of several startups, generally centered around advertising and social media.

Adam Kalsey’s Specialties:

advertising, technology, contextual matching, folksonomies, instant messaging, feeds, baseball, umpiring, coffee, relationship discovery, cloud computing, Drupal, scaling web applications

Adam Kalsey’s Experience

R&D

Voxeo

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)

Voxeo acquired IMified in May 2009. I've joined the R&D group there and will continue to work on IMified's products.
Founder

SacStarts

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

SacStarts is a community for the Sacramento region's entrepreneurs, technologists, and investors. Our events bring together the best and brightest from local startups and our blog provides news of interest to the area's young technology companies.
Founder

IMified

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Hosted instant messaging bots allowing individuals to interact with web services and receive real-time alerts over IM.

Acquired by Voxeo
VP Products

WorkHabit

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

April 2008 — January 2009 (10 months)

WorkHabit builds social media for companies. I manage product development for the company.
VP, Products

Farros Capital

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Worked with many of Royal Farros's portfolio companies, improving products and helping companies reach their goals. Much of my time was spent on Think.SMALL Advertising Network, where I spearheaded the creation of an ad network for small screens.
Founder

Feed Crier

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

August 2006 — May 2007 (10 months)

Created real time alerting system delivering feed-based alerts over instant messaging networks. Acquired May 2007.
CTO

Pheedo

(Internet industry)

July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)

As founder and CTO of a pioneering RSS and advertising company, I created the company's flagship ad server and feed management engine. After leading the company to venture financing, I helped grow the company to 15 employees and land a marquee client list that included Subaru, Citrix, and Microsoft.
Principal
Kalsey Consulting Group (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

December 2001 — July 2004 (2 years 8 months)
Director, Product Management

Realty Plus Online

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

May 2001 — November 2001 (7 months)
Business Process Engineer

Pandesic

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Technology Director

The Marketing Store

(Internet industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years)