Dave Morin

Dave Morin

Senior Platform Manager at Facebook

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Senior Platform Manager at Facebook
  • Advisor at Rupture
Past
  • Manager, Creation and Collaboration at Apple
  • Manager, Student Marketing at Apple
  • Founder at DM Design Studios
  • Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch
  • Information Technology at University of Colorado
  • Information Technology at State of Montana
Education
  • University of Colorado at Boulder
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Dave Morin’s Summary

Dave is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Currently, he is the Senior Platform Manager at the internet’s leading social utility, Facebook.

Dave Morin’s Specialties:

I specialize in change, positive disruption and making ideas happen. My talents lie in technology, product strategy, innovative design, social software, uncommon marketing, business development, and all things internet.


Dave Morin’s Experience

  • Senior Platform Manager

    Facebook

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

    October 2006Present (1 year 10 months)

    Lead the launch of Facebook Platform, which revolutionized the software industry by opening the social graph to developers, enabling the creation of rich applications with social context. Since launch, over 40,000 applications have been created and installed over 1 billion times by over 80 million people worldwide. And, the Facebook Platform ecosystem has grown to over 400,000 developers in 160 countries.

  • Advisor

    Rupture

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

    2006Present (2 years)

    Founding advisor at Rupture, working alongside co-founders Shawn Fanning and Johnathan Baudanza to define product and market strategy. Rupture lets you connect, share, and achieve with your friends in all games, on all platforms.

  • Manager, Creation and Collaboration

    Apple

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

    March 2006October 2006 (8 months)

    Product and market strategy for creation and collaboration technologies. Including iLife, iWork, iTunes U, and Mac OS X Leapord internet technologies. Worked to turn Mac OS X into the most advanced web development platform on earth by integrating technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Mongrel, and other key technologies and frameworks.

  • Manager, Student Marketing

    Apple

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)

    August 2004March 2006 (1 year 8 months)

    Lead higher education student marketing strategy and execution worldwide. Pioneered social media marketing strategy by becoming Facebook's first key business partner. Managed worldwide network of over 900 student marketing representatives.

  • Founder

    DM Design Studios

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    20002004 (4 years)

    Founded to focus on innovation in web application development, intelligent design, social software, and technology in a variety of markets.

  • Financial Analyst

    Merrill Lynch

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MER; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    20002001 (1 year)

  • Information Technology

    University of Colorado

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    19992000 (1 year)

  • Information Technology

    State of Montana

    (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)

    19971999 (2 years)


Dave Morin’s Education

  • University of Colorado at Boulder

    BA, Economics, Business, Technology, Media, 19992003

    Activities and Societies:
    NCAA Division I Alpine Ski Team, President - Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity

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Dave Morin’s Interests:

emerging technologies, positive disruption, social software, technology, blogging, web applications, social networking, change, investing, skiing, kiteboarding, cycling, traveling

Dave Morin’s Groups:

  •    KIVA member
  •    Obama for America member
  •    Apple - Current and Former Employees member

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