Jacob Mullins

Current

Partner Development Manager, US Breadth Solution Partners at Microsoft
Co-Founder at Beverly Mullins Memorial Scholarship

Past

Director, Sales and Business Development at VentureBeat
CEO and Co-Founder at Hoodia Products LLC

Education

Yale University

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Jacob Mullins’s Experience

Partner Development Manager, US Breadth Solution Partners

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Driving the US marketing strategy and partner outreach for both the Microsoft BizSpark and Microsoft WebsiteSpark programs. My friends at work call me "Sparky."

BizSpark is a program specifically targeted to technology startup companies offering them nearly all of Microsoft's development, design and production tools for no cost for 3 years. For more info contact me, or check out www.microsoft.com/bizspark.

WebsiteSpark is a new program targeted at web pros, like web developers and web designers, in companies under 10 people; it provides them access to Microsoft's core development and design tools, production server licenses, as well as providing new business leads so they can grow their businesses through the Microsoft Partner Network. For more info contact me, or visit www.websitespark.com.
Co-Founder

Beverly Mullins Memorial Scholarship

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Philanthropy industry)

2001 — Present (8 years )

The Mullins family and the UC Berkeley California Re-entry Alumni Chapter have come together to create a needs-based scholarship for Single parent re-entry students, doing full-time study at UC Berkeley. The Beverly Mullins Memorial Scholarship is in memory of Beverly Mullins, a 1998 Graduate from the Department of Sociology. More details on the scholarship can be found at www.lafpdl.com
Director, Sales and Business Development

VentureBeat

(Online Media industry)

December 2007 — September 2008 (10 months)

I headed all facets of the business side of this tech-business news blog. Everything from advertising and sponsorship sales, event/conference planning, to partner development and content syndication negotiations. www.venturebeat.com
CEO and Co-Founder

Hoodia Products LLC

(Consumer Goods industry)

February 2003 — December 2007 (4 years 11 months)