CEO of Consumer Products Company
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO at Wordlock,Inc.
- Past
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- CTO Founder at TeeBeeDee
- General Manager Emerging Businesses at Macrovision
- Vice President of Application Software at Apple Computer
- SVP Software Engineering and product marketing at Logictier
- General Manager Employee Workplace Applications at Remedy Corporation
- SVP Product Development at Visioneer
- Director Desktop and Graphics Systems at Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Director Systems Technology at MIPS
- Director WorkStation Engineering at Apollo Computer
- Education
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- Northeastern University
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Todd Basche’s Summary
As CEO of WordLock we are bringing new innovative consumer products to market. We design, develop and distribute products that are fun and make life easier for the consumer.
Strong technical leader with a proven track record of delivering complex products to market on-time and on quality. Experienced in building and scaling successfull, profitable businesses and development teams in consumer products, enterprise software and hardware companies. Able to synthesize customer requirements into a product vision and motivate the teams to develop and deliver those products.
Todd Basche’s Specialties:
Inventing new products and creating whole new categories. Innovating in consumer products both low technology and high technology.
Experience in Consumer software applications as well as Enterprise Software. Electronic Distribution and E-Commerce centered around PC based games. Content distribution Software for Music Labels, MPAA studios and Game developers. (ESD and ECD) Excellent track record creating award winning hardware and software products in both the consumer and the enterprise market.
Todd Basche’s Experience
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CEO
Wordlock,Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 7 months)
Wordlock innovates in consumer products sold through the retail channel.
Our first product family is a combination lock that uses words instead of numbers and has been a runaway seller at STAPLES worldwide.
We are dedicated to bringing innovative new products to market that make life easier for the consumer. -
CTO Founder
TeeBeeDee
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — August 2007 (1 year 8 months)
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General Manager Emerging Businesses
Macrovision
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MVSN; Computer Software industry)
June 2003 — July 2006 (3 years 2 months)
Responsible for the Games Division and all electronic content distribution for Macrovision. As GM I have complete P/L responsibility worldwide. We create platforms that power the games channels for Yahoo, AOL, Earthlink and 300 portals worldwide. Working with the publishers both core and casual we have aggregated over 1200 games in our offering. Additional responsibilites include finding new startup companies, acquiring them and growing them into stable, high-growth, profitable new businesses that are then integrated back into Macrovision.
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Vice President of Application Software
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — February 2003 (2 years 2 months)
In charge of all ilife applications including the Music Store. Also responsible for imovie, itunes, idvd, iphoto, DVD Studio Pro, Keynote etc.
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SVP Software Engineering and product marketing
Logictier
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — December 2001 (2 years)
Responsible for all product definition and software development for the Digital Ops suite of SW. This sw allows large companies to manage server farms, provision new application servers and easily add additional capacity to web sites as they grow.
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General Manager Employee Workplace Applications
Remedy Corporation
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1997 — December 2000 (4 years)
responsible for all engineering, marketing, sales and finance for this enterprise software division of Remedy.
previously responsible for all of Remedy's products from an Engineering standpoint. -
SVP Product Development
Visioneer
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
May 1993 — August 1997 (4 years 4 months)
Personal Scanners for home and business.
Responsible for product development both Hardware and Software. Shipped over 5 million units -
Director Desktop and Graphics Systems
Sun Microsystems Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1989 — December 1993 (5 years)
responsible for all SPARC station development. Ran teams of 400 engineers across 3 locations and produced the Sparc 2, 5, 10 and 20 as well as the only portable SPARC station.
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Director Systems Technology
MIPS
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1985 — 1986 (1 year)
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Director WorkStation Engineering
Apollo Computer
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1980 — 1985 (5 years)
Todd Basche’s Education
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Northeastern University
BSEE, Engineering, 1973 — 1978
- Activities and Societies:
- Visual research studies, VECP lab, Ultimate Frisbee
Additional Information
Todd Basche’s Websites:
Todd Basche’s Interests:
Speaking engagements "From your head to the Store Shelf, Bringing ideas to market" , Consulting with new companies regarding online Music and Games strategies.
Todd Basche’s Groups:
Bay Area Inventors Alliance
Todd Basche’s Honors:
Published in October 2007 Harvard Business Review
Top Honors Entrepreneur Magazine April 2005.
One of the Top 100 Inventions in the USA sponsored by the PTO and QVC.
Inventor of the Wordlock product www.wordlock.com .
STAPLES Invention Quest Winner 2004 First Place.
Interviewed on Regis and Kelly show and Neil Cavuto Business Hour.
