President at Austin Wireless City Project
Austin, Texas Area
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- Member at Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority Customer Satisfaction Advisory Committee
- Chairman, Urban Transportation Commission at City of Austin
- CEO at Less Networks
- President at Austin Wireless City Project
- Consultant at Arts Electronica
- Past
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- Chief Strategist at Rocksteady Networks
- Marketing Product Manager at Deja.com
- Marketing Product Manager at Deja.com (Acquired Google)
- Product Manager / Consultant, Internet Services at IXC/Broadwing
- Founder and Service Manager at Portal Software
- Education
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- The University of Texas at Austin
- San Jose State University
- San Jose State University
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Richard MacKinnon’s Summary
President, Austin Wireless City Project; Steering Committee, Austin Wireless Alliance; Chief Strategist, Rocksteady Networks; Internet Services Consultant, IXC/Broadwing. Founder, Portal Communications Company; Marketing and consulting roles at Deja.com and Wholefoods.com
Invited speaker/keynote/panelist: FCC Broadband Field Hearing (Austin TX 2009); Wireless Visionaries (Washington DC 2008); International Summit for Community Wireless Networks (Washington DC 2008; St. Louis 2006, Urbana-Champaign 2004); SXSW Interactive (Austin 2008, 2005, 2004), New America Foundation (Washington DC 2008); MuniWireless (Dallas 2007, Santa Clara 2006); Symposium on Knowledge Cities, Business Incubation, and Wealth Creation (Monterrey, Mexico 2004); Austin Mobility Forum (Austin 2004), ITEC (Austin 2002, 2003), Annual National Community Networking Conference (Washington DC 2006, Austin 2003), Computers Freedom and Privacy (Austin 1998), CYBERMIND (Perth 1997), Virtual Community (Sydney 1997), CYBERCONF5 (Madrid 1996), First Conference on Virtual Reality (Valencia Spain 1996).
Provisional Patent Applications: Access Controlled Network Sharing(2501748.991110) and System and Method for Dynamic Bandwidth and Shaping(2501748.991100)
Board service: City of Austin Urban Transportation Commission, Austin Wireless Alliance (Steering Committee), Capital Metro Customer Satisfaction Advisory Committee, Austin Wireless City Project (founder), Austin Wireless (President), ACLU CyberLiberties Project (founding chair), ACLU of Texas, Central Texas Civil Liberties Union (board), Electronic Frontier Foundation-Austin (President)
Richard MacKinnon’s Specialties:
Serial entrepreneur, branding and identity, positioning, corporate strategy, product development
Richard MacKinnon’s Experience
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Member
Capital Metropolitan Transit Authority Customer Satisfaction Advisory Committee
(Computer Networking industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
I serve as the UTC liaison to CSAC
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Chairman, Urban Transportation Commission
City of Austin
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
I am council member Randi Shade's appointee. I was originally appointed by former council member Jennifer Kim.
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CEO
Less Networks
(Computer Networking industry)
March 2003 — Present (6 years 9 months)
Less Networks is a mash-up of WiFi + Social Networking + Mobile Advertising. We are among the first socialmobile companies in the world and a leader in innovating the free WiFi business model. We provide a top-notch free WiFi experience that benefits our end-users, venues, channel partners and advertisers.
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President
Austin Wireless City Project
(Computer Networking industry)
2002 — Present (7 years )
I co-founded this non-profit with the mission to improve the quality and availability of publicly available free WiFi in the greater Austin area.
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Consultant
Arts Electronica
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — Present (12 years 6 months)
Web design and Business Consulting
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Chief Strategist
Rocksteady Networks
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
March 2000 — February 2003 (3 years )
Also served as VP Marketing and VP Business Development.
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Marketing Product Manager
Deja.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
September 1999 — May 2000 (9 months)
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Marketing Product Manager
Deja.com (Acquired Google)
(Computer Networking industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year )
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Product Manager / Consultant, Internet Services
IXC/Broadwing
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
September 1997 — May 1998 (9 months)
First Product Manager for Internet Services.
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Founder and Service Manager
Portal Software
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; PRSF; Internet industry)
December 1989 — June 1994 (4 years 7 months)
Badge #4. My first startup.
Richard MacKinnon’s Education
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The University of Texas at Austin
Phd Program , Political Theory / Advanced Communications , August 1992 — May 1998
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San Jose State University
M.A. , Political Science , August 1989 — December 1992
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San Jose State University
B.A. , Political Science , August 1986 — May 1989
- Activities and Societies:
- Pi Sigma Alpha, Spartan Marching Band
Additional Information
Richard MacKinnon’s Interests:
corporate strategy, business planning, cooking, traveling
Richard MacKinnon’s Groups:
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Austin Technology Incubator - Friends & Family
Richard MacKinnon’s Honors:
2009 Wireless Industry Leadership Award
2009 Top 3 Companies Most Likely to Deliver Shareholder Value, Silicon Valley Wireless Economic Development Summit
2008 Most Promising IT / Web 2.0 Company, Rice Alliance
2003 President's MVP Award, Rocksteady Networks
1992 President's MVP Award, Portal Software
Richard MacKinnon’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
