Douglas Busk

Current

EVP-Mobile Strategy & Business Development at Whoop

Past

VP-Product Marketing, NA at SpinVox
VP-Digital Lifestyle at AMDOCS
VP-Industry Relations at SinglePoint

Associate Director - Messaging at Verizon Wireless
Enterprise Product Development at Verizon Wireless
Senior Manager - Third Party Revenue at Cingular Wireless
Senior Manager - Consumer Data Alliances at Cingular Wireless
Area Manager, Proposal & Response Center at Cingular Wireless
Manager - CIMStudio at Cox Interactive Media

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Education

Emory University

Recommended

15 people have recommended Douglas

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Douglas Busk’s Summary

Strong history of leading product development, marketing initiatives, and business development in the wireless carrier and vendor realms.

Douglas Busk’s Specialties:

Marketing; product management, development and strategy; and industry relations.

Douglas Busk’s Experience

EVP-Mobile Strategy & Business Development

Whoop

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

Lead business development and partnership strategy for Whoop, a software-as-service provider of tools that enable creation of downloadable applications for multiple smart device platforms simultaneously.
VP-Product Marketing, NA

SpinVox

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

December 2008 — August 2009 (9 months)

Lead product marketing, strategy for SpinVox. SpinVox captures spoken messages and converts them into text.
VP-Digital Lifestyle

AMDOCS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DOX; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — December 2008 (8 months)

Directed strategic product development of AMDOCS' digital commerce and advertising lines of business within the AT&T division.
VP-Industry Relations

SinglePoint

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

January 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 5 months)

Lead marketing and product strategy for SinglePoint (formerly Wireless Services Corporation). Responsible for product development, management and implementation. Drive industry and wireless-carrier facing business development.
Associate Director - Messaging

Verizon Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VZ; Wireless industry)

May 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Directed product management team responsible for Verizon Wireless Text Messaging (SMS) product portfolio.
• Held marketing and technical product management and development responsibility for $500 million line of business.
• Drove strategic decision-making responsible for 100% growth year-over-year in peer-to-peer messaging, doubling of international carrier connectivity and traffic, evolution of mobile Instant Messaging client, and overhaul of consumer-facing messaging portal, vtext.com.
• Revamped premium messaging aggregator program to enable six additional aggregator partners, driving 300% growth in third party revenue.
Enterprise Product Development

Verizon Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VZ; Wireless industry)

July 2003 — May 2004 (11 months)

Managed and developed applications that leveraged, and enabled connectivity to, Verizon Wireless high-speed data networks, including Wi-FiAccess (802.11) and BroadbandAccess (1xEV-DO).
• Led Wi-FiAccess product development, including all necessary reporting, development, and coordination with network, IT, revenue assurance, and sales divisions.
• Directly coordinated efforts of Wi-FiAccess network provider, Wayport.
• Overhauled VZAccess Windows-compatible PC software client, enabling users with one-click connectivity to the full array of Verizon Wireless data services as well as those of roaming partner and parent, Vodafone.
Senior Manager - Third Party Revenue

Cingular Wireless

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

November 2002 — July 2003 (9 months)

Directed product management team responsible for all platforms and strategy that enable third party application providers with either connectivity to or billing relationships with Cingular subscribers.
Senior Manager - Consumer Data Alliances

Cingular Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Wireless industry)

December 2001 — November 2002 (1 year )

Directed strategic alliance and partnership creation for all consumer-facing data products along m-commerce/finance, Location Based Services (LBS), and mobile marketing horizontal segments.
Area Manager, Proposal & Response Center

Cingular Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Wireless industry)

March 2001 — December 2001 (10 months)

Led 20-person Proposal Team responsible for Global Accounts (Fortune 500) sales division of Cingular Wireless.
Manager - CIMStudio

Cox Interactive Media

(Telecommunications industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

Douglas Busk’s Education

Emory University

BA , Political Science , August 1992 — June 1996

President of the Atlanta Chapter of Emory Young Alumni 1998-2002

Activities and Societies:

Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, Student Government, School Newspaper "The Wheel"