Andrew Breen

Current

Strategic Alliances at Medialets
Advisor/Consultant at Independent Consultant (Self-employed)

Past

Director, Services Product Management at Palm
VP, Business Development at ThinAirApps
CEO at SilverPlum

Consultant at CSFB
Director, Software Engineering at EarthWeb
CIO at Interactive Imaginations
Systems Professional at JPMorgan

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Andrew Breen’s Summary

Early stage leader and entrepreneur in mobile focused on product strategy, development, and management as well as strategic alliances. Currently running alliances at Medialets, the leader in rich media for mobile.

Andrew Breen’s Specialties:

Mobile Technology, Mobile Advertising, Product Development, Business Structuring, Strategy, Software and Service Design, Semantic and Collaborative Technology, Startups, Speech Recognition, Voice

Andrew Breen’s Experience

Strategic Alliances

Medialets

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

Leader in rich media mobile advertising.
Advisor/Consultant
Independent Consultant (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Advising early and late stage tech companies on product strategy and development focused on the Internet and mobile/telecom. Also advise investors on a strategic investments both in public and private companies in the mobile/telecom industry. Providing industry and company analysis as well as engaging management/BoD with turnaround strategies.

Projects include: Harbinger Capital (Openwave), Talk2Us, Public Earth, SpeakLike, Medialets, Skype
Director, Services Product Management

Palm

(Public Company; PALM; Computer Software industry)

2001 — 2006 (5 years )

Led new product strategy, formulation and launch of several new software and service product businesses for Palm new wireless services business on smartphone platforms. Experience with both carrier integrated services as well as mobile enterprise software.
VP, Business Development

ThinAirApps

(Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Led the formulation of company product strategy and partnerships as well as our core infrastructure products. Refined our enterprise wireless email product strategy to be competitive with Blackberry on Palm devices focusing on a multi-channel strategy of direct enterprise sales and channel licensing with OEMs/ISVs. Part of the executive team leading the sale of the company into Palm.
CEO

SilverPlum

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Pioneer in retailing of upscale and unique home furnishings online. Sold to UncommonGoods
Consultant

CSFB

(Public Company; CSR; Investment Banking industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )
Director, Software Engineering

EarthWeb

(Internet industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )
CIO

Interactive Imaginations

(Internet industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )
Systems Professional

JPMorgan

(Public Company; JPM; Investment Banking industry)

1994 — 1995 (1 year )

Andrew Breen’s Education

Carnegie Mellon University

BS , Information and Decision Systems, Industrial Management, Computer Science , 1990 — 1994

Activities and Societies:

Delta Upsilon

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Andrew Breen’s Interests:

New business and entrepreneurial opportunities, mobile computing, distributed data systems/semantic web, technology startups, New York City, music, design, architecture, art, wine