Experienced Product and Business Manager
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- VP Products at Six Apart, Ltd.
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- Managing Director at Quris, Inc.
- Client Partner at Viant
- Product Strategist at GlobalEnglish.com
- Product Manager / Business Development at Advent Software
- Education
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- Haas School of Business
- Colgate University
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Michael Sippey’s Summary
Currently Six Apart's VP Products. I'm responsible for the product strategy, feature set and user experience of TypePad and Movable Type and Vox. My background is in a combination of product marketing, product management and professional services in software and web services.
Michael Sippey’s Specialties:
Blogging, social media, content management, communication tools, email, CRM, online marketing.
Michael Sippey’s Experience
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VP Products
Six Apart, Ltd.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
Responsible for product strategy, product management and the user experience for TypePad, Movable Type and Vox. Manage a team of product managers, interaction designers, visual designers, front end engineers and QA engineers.
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Managing Director
Quris, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — August 2004 (4 years 8 months)
Provide client relationship management, strategy development and technology consulting to Fortune 1000 firms, to help them develop, execute and evolve responsible, customer-centric email programs. Have held marketing and technology roles within Quris as well.
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Client Partner
Viant
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; vian; Internet industry)
July 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 7 months)
Sold, led and managed client engagements for Internet consulting firm.
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Product Strategist
GlobalEnglish.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
June 1997 — September 1997 (4 months)
Collaborated with venture investors and startup management team to validate market for what became GlobalEnglish.com.
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Product Manager / Business Development
Advent Software
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; advs; Computer Software industry)
June 1991 — June 1996 (5 years 1 month)
Product manager for Advent's pre-Internet data retrieval and integration products, including automated systems for retrieving market data, brokerage transactions, DTC confirmations, etc. Helped develop Advent's early Internet strategy, and performed market validation for "Rex," Advent's automated reconciliation system.
Michael Sippey’s Education
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Haas School of Business
MBA, Business, September 1996 — May 1998
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Colgate University
BA, English, September 1986 — March 1990
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