Dan Cohen

Current

• CEO at Pageflakes

Past

• Senior Director, My Yahoo! at Yahoo!
• Group Product Manager, Personalization + Personalized Homepage 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

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Recommended

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Connections

388 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Dan Cohen’s Summary

Entrepreneurial executive with proven success in general management, consumer and enterprise product management, strategic planning and marketing, and business development in technology companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 corporations

Dan Cohen’s Specialties:

Consumer Web Services
Personalization
Media and Entertainment Technology

Dan Cohen’s Experience

• CEO

  Pageflakes

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

  2006 — Present (2 years)

  [Acquired by LiveUniverse]
  Pageflakes is a community-driven personalized homepage. 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. Flakes 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. The Pageflakes community of users create and help each other discover more new flakes and share more new Pageflakes pages every day.

• Senior Director, My Yahoo!

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

• Group Product Manager, Personalization + Personalized Homepage

  Google

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year)

• 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

• 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.

• Director, Applications Development Practice

  IKON Technology Services

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IKN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year)

• President (Regional GM)

  IKON

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IKN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year)

• 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

Dan Cohen’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

• University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

  Master of Business Administration (MBA),

Additional Information

Dan Cohen’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Dan Cohen’s Interests:

Road Cycling, Music Performance (Drums), Music Collecting, Consumer Electronics, Entertainment Technology

Dan Cohen’s Groups:

Pageflakes

•    Wharton Technology Network member

Dan Cohen’s Honors:

•Pittsburgh 40 Under 40 Award (for 40 of Pittsburgh's most influential and successful young professionals)
•IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Award (multiple time winner for IBM business partner providing the best customer solutions)
•IKON Technology Services Best New Acquisition Award (for best new acquired company out of over 40 companies)
•IKON Technology Services Eagle Award (multiple time winner for best regional performance against revenue growth and pofitability targets)
•National Multiple Sclerosis Society, MS-150 Top Fundraiser and Multiple Top 10 Fundraiser Awards

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