Ian McCarthy

Current

Principal Product Manager at LinkedIn

Past

Vice President, Product Marketing at Orb Networks, Inc.
CEO at GoPix, Inc.
Director, Product Development at Sony Pictures Digital

Vice President, Online Services at Grassroots Enterprise, Inc.
Co-Executive Director at OpenVoice

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Education

Stanford University
Phillips Academy

Recommended

17 people have recommended Ian

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Ian McCarthy’s Summary

Product marketing executive focused on consumer digital media. Extensive experience developing, bringing to market, and iterating online services and networked client software. Interested in established companies entering new markets and in early-stage startups.

Ian McCarthy’s Specialties:

Skills: all marketing aspects of new product development, including needs analysis, target customer segmentation, product specification, competitive positioning, messaging, pricing, usage analysis, and product iteration.
Domains: online community, mobile media and messaging, media webapps, digital music and video editing, online content programming.

Ian McCarthy’s Experience

Principal Product Manager

LinkedIn

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Driving professional interest centers and all group products
Vice President, Product Marketing

Orb Networks, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 6 months)

• In-the-trenches product guy, strategist, and public evangelist for the company that pioneered Web-based streaming access to all your media from mobile devices, PCs, and game-consoles.

• Defined, launched, and iterated Winamp Remote, a custom version of Orb for AOL adopted by several million new users within a year of its relaunch.
CEO

GoPix, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 4 months)

• Hawking integrated client/server solutions for enhancing and sharing images from mobile phones.
Director, Product Development

Sony Pictures Digital

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; SNE; Computer Software industry)

July 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 4 months)

• Cross-functional leader responsible for defining and evolving product roadmap for Screenblast, which provided consumers with software and online services for enhancing and sharing digital music, images and video
• Drove the shift in Screenblast's business focus from interactive content to consumer-level media creativity
• Managed team creating product specifications and business cases for retail software releases, online service releases, and prototypes on mobile and set-top devices
• Primary liaison to Sony Electronics groups on all development initiatives to integrate hardware more deeply with software and services
Vice President, Online Services

Grassroots Enterprise, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1999 — July 2000 (10 months)

• Oversaw 1.0 launch of online service for venture-backed start-up providing personalized political content feeds and online action tools
• Recruited, trained and managed staff of twenty-two content, design, online community, and platform development personnel
Co-Executive Director

OpenVoice

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

December 1997 — September 1999 (1 year 10 months)

• Co-founded nonprofit to train East Palo Alto teens in online community programming and Web production. OpenVoice projects were supported by AOL and Sun Microsystems and included the largest original teen content forum on AOL.