Entrepreneur, Startup CEO, Technology Executive
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO (Consulting) at Venture-backed startup
- Past
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- CEO at Pageflakes
- Senior Director, My Yahoo! at Yahoo!
- Group Product Manager, Personalization + iGoogle at Google
- Entrepreneur in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University
- CEO, President, Cofounder at Personity
- Vice President Strategic Partnerships (Business Development) at IKON Technology Services
- Director, Applications Development Practice at IKON Technology Services
- President (Regional GM) at IKON
- CEO, President, Founder at USConnect
- Education
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- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Dan Cohen’s Summary
Dan Cohen is an entrepreneurial executive with proven success in general management, product management, strategy, marketing, and business development in technology companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 corporations.
Most recently, Dan was the CEO of Pageflakes, the social personalized homepage (acquired by LiveUniverse). At Pageflakes, he had oversight of all aspects of the company's business and led its product vision. Prior to Pageflakes, Dan was the head of My Yahoo!, Yahoo's personalized homepage, and before that led product management for personalized products at Google, including iGoogle. Previously, Dan was the founder and CEO of two technology companies, Personity and USConnect, and led their acquisitions by Openwave and IKON, respectively. He also held key senior management positions at IKON Technology Services, including Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Director of Applications Development.
Dan holds a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dan Cohen’s Specialties:
Consumer Web Services
Personalization
Media and Entertainment Technology
Dan Cohen’s Experience
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CEO (Consulting)
Venture-backed startup
(Internet industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
Dan Cohen provides consulting and interim CEO services to venture-backed startups in consumer web and social media.
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CEO
Pageflakes
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
[Acquired by LiveUniverse]
Pageflakes is the social personalized homepage, is revolutionizing how we how we start with and use the Internet. At www.Pageflakes.com, you can easily customize the Internet and make it yours using ‘”Flakes” – small, movable versions of all of your web favorites that you can arrange on your personal homepage. You can also participate in the Pageflakes community, sharing your page as a “Pagecast” with a private group or with the world, and connecting with other users across the globe. Over 236,000 Flakes and 145,000 Pagecasts are available for thousands of uses and interests, including news, sports, e-mail, local events, search, photos, music, videos – even interactive tools like a calendar and a to-do list – and just about anything else you do on the web at school, work and at home. The Pageflakes user community creates and helps each other discover more new Flakes and Pagecasts every day. -
Senior Director, My Yahoo!
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
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Group Product Manager, Personalization + iGoogle
Google
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
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Entrepreneur in Residence
Carnegie Mellon University
(Internet industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Carnegie Mellon is an internationally recognized institution with a distinctive mix of world-class educational and research programs in computer science, robotics, engineering, the sciences, business, public policy, fine arts and the humanities.
Carnegie Mellon West, located in Silicon Valley, conducts research and offers Masters degrees in Software Engineering. CM West is also the home of the Center for Engineered Innovation (CEI), an interdisciplinary center dedicated to the research of processes that drive market acceptance and success for new innovations. -
CEO, President, Cofounder
Personity
(Wireless industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
[Acquired by Openwave Systems]
Provider of presence infrastructure and client software that enables wireless carriers to deliver advanced communications and messaging services to consumers and enterprises, including instant messaging and push-to-talk voice -
Vice President Strategic Partnerships (Business Development)
IKON Technology Services
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IKN; Information Technology and Services industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
One of the world's leading providers of business document and imaging technology products and services, with fiscal 2003 revenues of $4.7 billion and nearly 600 locations worldwide. IKON’s Technology Services division provides information technology services and solutions.
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Director, Applications Development Practice
IKON Technology Services
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IKN; Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
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President (Regional GM)
IKON
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IKN; Information Technology and Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
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CEO, President, Founder
USConnect
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1987 — 1996 (9 years)
[Acquired by IKON Office Solutions]
[Formerly Strategy One]
Information technology services firm providing enterprise systems integration and application software development
· Started company immediately after graduating Carnegie Mellon
