Doug Stein

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Industry: Computer Software

Doug Stein’s Summary

CTO with deep experience in technology-related corporate strategy. My first job after graduate school was founding a computer science department at an elite prep school in the Boston area - so education is my first love (especially as it pertains to mathematics and the hard sciences). My second love was (and is) quantitative finance. Perhaps it has to do with the challenge of helping people avoid outliving their income. Perhaps it's the tough intellectual challenges.

What do I enjoy doing professionally? Well, I've always tried to work at the intersection of technology and significant business problems - especially those where a lot of people will be affected. Most of my positions the last 12 years have been CTO-level at companies where technology is the heartbeat of the business value.

What do I want to do in the future? I'd like to develop into an insightful and successful venture capitalist. Maybe I'm naive about early-stage investing, but I currently have to create and evaluate a team and a set of technologies to achieve a company mission. It seems that building a good portfolio of teams/companies to tackle emerging market opportunities is a natural growth progression. For right now, however, acting as a CTO-gunslinger for my clients and helping them move from "uniform batch learning delivered offline with a perpetual license" to "personalized learning delivered online with a subscription mode" is as fun and challenging as being an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for a VC.

Doug Stein’s Specialties:

Educational publishing (technology-based) - including author acquisition and partner selection. Design of closed-loop instruction and formative assessment architecture. Selecting and negotiating development partners (including overseas development). Integration of ERP and CRM into business processes to enable high-volume sales. Enterprise architecture - including an inderstanding of how products my team builds will "fit in" to a customer's emerging infrastructure.