Kevin Ambrosini

Current

• Co-founder at The OpenSky Project

Past

• Director, Strategy & Corp Dev at Gilt Groupe (AlleyCorp)
• VP, Product Mgmt & Distribution at MaxPreps (acq. by CBS Interactive)
• Venture Capital Associate at Dolphin Equity Partners

• Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley
• Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley

Connections

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Industry

Internet

Kevin Ambrosini’s Experience

• Co-founder

  The OpenSky Project

  (Internet industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

• Director, Strategy & Corp Dev

  Gilt Groupe (AlleyCorp)

  (Privately Held; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  April 2008 — February 2009 (11 months)

  Gilt.com is a private online community providing its members with access to top designer and luxury brands at sample sale prices.
  
  Founded by Kevin Ryan and Dwight Merriman—the former CEO and co-founder/CTO of DoubleClick, respectively—AlleyCorp launched six NYC-based start-ups, including Gilt.com (November 2007), BusinessInsider.com (July 2007) and 10gen (July 2008).
  
  Led strategy and corporate development across the AlleyCorp-founded companies. Raised capital from top tier investors, including Matrix Partners, Greylock Partners, Union Square Ventures and Index Ventures.
  
  Learned first-hand from two Internet and technology visionaries how to build a company from the ground up. If you have the opportunity to be involved in a Kevin Ryan project, jump all over it.

• VP, Product Mgmt & Distribution

  MaxPreps (acq. by CBS Interactive)

  (Public Company; Sports industry)

  November 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  MaxPreps.com is the leader in HS sports content and communities with a distributed network of 25,000 contributing coaches, over 100 leading media distribution partners and millions of participating athletes.
  
  Led an early stage investment in MaxPreps before joining the company full time. Promoted to VP within five months to become one of only three executives reporting directly to the CEO. You can't work for a better man or with a better team than I did at MaxPreps...simply an amazing group of people.
  
  MaxPreps was acquired by CBS Interactive in 2007.

• Venture Capital Associate

  Dolphin Equity Partners

  (Privately Held; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  August 2004 — October 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  $340mm NYC-based venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in high-growth technology-based businesses benefiting from the convergence of Communications, Media and the Internet.
  
  Led investments in, observer to the Boards of and/or actively involved with 9 companies, including:
  - ArtfulHome.com // online retailer of original art and home decor
  - Enpocket (acquired by Nokia) // global mobile marketing
  - Gomez // web application experience management
  - MaxPreps.com (acquired by CBS) // hyper-local sports media
  - TouchCommerce // pay for performance online conversion
  - Vitalstream (acquired by Internap) // content delivery network

• Investment Banking Analyst

  Morgan Stanley

  (Public Company; MS; Financial Services industry)

  July 2002 — July 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  The world's leading technology investment bank.
  
  Advised world-class management teams and was a member of the deal teams for several industry transforming transactions, including:
  - Google's $1.7bn IPO
  - VMware's $635mm sale to EMC
  - Legato's $1.7bn sale to EMC
  - Cisco's $500mm acquisition of Linksys

• Systems Engineer

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 3 months)

  Ridin' the 1.0 wave at its peak. "Look at it, Johnny. Look at it! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man."

Kevin Ambrosini’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  B.S. , Business Administration , 1998 — 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  Varsity Rugby (national champion)