Jeff Kimball

Current

• Chief Operating Officer at Internet Broadcasting

Past

• Owner (Sole Proprietorship)
• Vice President of Product Marketing & Strategic Alignment at AOL
• Senior Vice President Product Development at Vive Computing (NHC Systems, Inc.)

• President at Brilliant Nite Software
• Vice President at Technical Analysis Corporation

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Education

• Brown University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Jeff Kimball’s Summary

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Jeff is a leader with a proven track record in Strategic Management, Consulting, Product Marketing and Program Management. Starting from his technical background, Jeff has built a career by creating solutions that apply technology to enable business success.

Jeff is a well-respected, experienced people manager who has focused on people development and managing cultural change. He has directly managed teams spread across the world and managed large, matrixed teams (up to 1700+). He is a natural coach and mentor and takes much of his professional satisfaction from people management

Currently, Jeff is a Chief Operating Officer at Internet Broadcasting (IB) in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Jeff was Senior Vice President of Product Development at Vive Computing. Founded in 2007 by Jim Rutt, Vive’s goal was to fundamentally alter the way consumers and small businesses purchased, used and got support for computers, software and peripherals. Jeff was responsible for quality assurance, product marketing, and program management.

At AOL, Jeff led the Strategic Alignment team and was responsible for the communication and adoption of the US strategies in Europe. Simultaneously, Jeff also managed the pan-European Product Marketing team and was accountable for product and business strategies spanning the AOL Europe market.

Before moving to London, Jeff was the Business Lead for more than ten releases of AOL including AOL 4.0 (update) AOL 5.0, AOL 6.0, AOL 7.0, AOL 8.0, AOL 8.0 for Broadband, AOL 8.0 for International, AOL 9.0, AOL 9.0 for International, AOL for Mac OS X. AOL 9.0 was the most successful release in AOL’s history; it was adopted by 10,000,000 consumers in just 130 days.

Jeff also managed teams that ran AOL.com (building the advertising and partner content business by 50% to $150 million) and developed and popularized almost every AOL consumer service (e-mail, Search, instant messaging, AIM, Parental Controls, Pictures, Chat, etc.).

Jeff Kimball’s Specialties:

Internet
Operations
Design
Product Marketing
Program Management
International Business
Leadership
People Management
Management Consulting

Jeff Kimball’s Experience

• Chief Operating Officer

  Internet Broadcasting

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

  Accountable for Operations, Content, Design, Technology, IT Management, Advertising Operations, and Product. Responsible for high-quality deliverables to customers and all aspects of commitments to consumers, TV partners, publishers and advertisers.

• Owner

  Sole Proprietorship

  (Sole Proprietorship; Management Consulting industry)

  1994 — 2008 (14 years)

  Management Consulting
  Business Planning
  Strategic Planning
  Internet
  Product Marketing
  Program Management
  International Business
  People Management
  Operations

• Vice President of Product Marketing & Strategic Alignment

  AOL

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1996 — 2007 (11 years)

  Strategic Alignment - Accountable for the alignment between European and US businesses including all major Business, Product and Technology issues.
  
  Pan-European Product Marketing - Accountable for unified product strategy for UK, France and Germany.
  
  Program Management - Built and managed team to deliver on "portal" products.
  
  Product Marketing - Business Lead for nine major releases of the AOL service: AOL 4.0 (update) AOL 5.0, AOL 6.0, AOL 7.0, AOL 8.0, AOL 8.0 for Broadband, AOL 8.0 for International, AOL 9.0, AOL 9.0 for International.
  
  Program Management - Founded program management office accountable for all AOL technologies projects
  
  Product Marketing Consumer Products - Managed teams that developed and popularized e-mail, spam fighting, Instant Messaging, AIM, Search, AOL Broadband, AOL Latino, KOL, Red, Welcome Screen, AOL for Mac, Premium Serviced, AOL@School, chat, Pop-up Controls, Member Directory, Music, Radio, You’ve Got Pictures.

• Senior Vice President Product Development

  Vive Computing (NHC Systems, Inc.)

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

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

  Responsible for strategic product direction, product marketing, product and technology roadmap and project processes. Accountable for product budgets (including COGS); created and championed strategic product plans; oversaw consumer research & competitive analysis; accountable for website content.
  
  Established QA department; established project and program management; built and managed integrated project plan; founded Vive Labs.

• President

  Brilliant Nite Software

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

  Accountable for product marketing of multilingual software applications. Team successfully created first tri-lingual accounting package for US and International markets

• Vice President

  Technical Analysis Corporation

  (Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)

  1986 — 1994 (8 years)

  Management Consultant and Expert Witness - Worked on behalf of consumers in litigation in many states. Provided Expert Testimony. The company won lawsuits that saved consumers more than $2 billion.

Jeff Kimball’s Education

• Brown University

  Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

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