Vice President Deep Web Technologies
Santa Fe, New Mexico Area
- Current
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- VP of Professional Services at Deep Web Technologies
- Owner at Thalasar Ventures
- Past
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- Managing Director at Xao Inc
- Director Ecommerce Practice at VA Software
- CEO at Brave New Worlds
- Education
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- Occidental College
- Floyd Central
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Brian DeSpain’s Summary
Web producer and executive with extensive experience in web projects specfically electronic commerce. Founded an electronic commerce software company in 1996 which I eventually sold to VA Software. Direct experience in health care, wholesale trade, the music industry, the garment industry, automotive parts industry, and pure Internet plays.
Brian DeSpain’s Specialties:
Intellectual Property
Acquistions and Due Diligence
Business Model Development
Brian DeSpain’s Experience
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VP of Professional Services
Deep Web Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
Deep Web Technologies is a early stage startup focused on searching the deep web.
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Owner
Thalasar Ventures
(Internet industry)
October 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Thalasar has been my little Internet incubator I have spent the last few years working on various things that interest me. I have launched a number of sites mostly in the price comparison and shopping comparison space.
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Managing Director
Xao Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
September 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Xao was spun back off from VA Software. We mostly focused on professional services and we found with the dot com crash and the advent of outsourcing, our work mostly dried up. We closed Xao in 2003. I managed the firm with William Drury.
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Director Ecommerce Practice
VA Software
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; LNUX; Computer Software industry)
November 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 1 month)
After selling my company (Brave New Worlds) to VA Linux to 2000, I became the head of their ecommerce professional services practice.This meant that everyone in my previous company reported to me as well as the additional engineers for new ecommerce projects. We continued to develop best of breed ecommerce solutions for a wide variety of companies.
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CEO
Brave New Worlds
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1996 — November 2000 (4 years 2 months)
Brave New Worlds was an ecommerce software company I co-founded with William Drury and Mark Marriott. It provided an open source electronic commerce suite and services around that application. As co-founder I wore many hats among them sales, professional services, account management, hiring, and when we sold the company I handled the due diligence.
Brian DeSpain’s Education
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Occidental College
BA , English/Political Science , 1987 — 1991
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Floyd Central
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Brian DeSpain’s Interests:
Permaculture, strategic planning, Gnostic Christianity,
Brian DeSpain’s Groups:
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