Vitaly Golomb

Current

• Founder, CEO at Keen
• CEO and Creative Director at Sputnik Integrated

Past

• Independent Management Consultant at Various
• Designer and Information Architect at SpinCircuit, Inc
• Design and Marketing Consultant at Various

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Education

• Cogswell Polytechnical College
• Santa Clara University

Recommended

5 people have recommended Vitaly

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Blog
• Follow me on Twitter

Vitaly Golomb’s Summary

Experienced, hands-on and highly technical manager.

Business expertise in company formation, debt and equity financing strategies, business model development, marketing strategy and implementation, creative project management and full P&L responsibility.

Software technical expertise in heuristics, software information architecture, user interface design, and technology implementation.

Award-winning web, print and multimedia designer.

Vitaly Golomb’s Specialties:

- Web Applications
- Social Media
- eCommerce
- Online Marketing
- Direct Marketing
- Branding
- Commercial Printing

Vitaly Golomb’s Experience

• Founder, CEO

  Keen

  (Online Media industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  Keen is an easy-to-use, zero-maintenance hosted service that lets printing companies sell online, accept and inspect files, and manage all customer communication, billing, scheduling and shipping. This subscription-based, on-demand service helps reduce costs and increase efficiency, while enabling printing companies to improve relationships with existing customers and attract new ones.
  
  Keen is DEMOfall '09 alumni http://www.demo.com/alumni/demo2009fall/186133.html
  
  Keen was runner up at the 2009 Global Technology Symposium at Stanford.

• CEO and Creative Director

  Sputnik Integrated

  (Online Media industry)

  July 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

  Award-winning web development, web hosting and online marketing firm. Clients include Electronic Arts, Evernote, FedEx, HP, LookSmart, Namco, Stanford University among others. Headquartered in San Francisco, with satellite offices in Los Angeles and Moscow, Russia.

• Independent Management Consultant

  Various

  (Management Consulting industry)

  June 2001 — December 2007 (6 years 7 months)

  Consulted startups and turnarounds on a wide range of topics, including: business development, technology and marketing.
  
  FuseMe – Consumer internet application startup. Social media and social graph aggregation web service.
  - Established technology team to take project from concept to engineering prototype
  - Established company name, branding, positioning strategy and messaging
  - Developed business model, funding presentation and marketing materials
  - Co-authored US software patent (pending)

  
  Montlbanc Associates – Software and technology services for medical and dental practices.
  - Established and managed software development team to build project on open-source base
  - Established company name, branding, positioning strategy and messaging
  - Developed business model, debt financing presentation and marketing materials
  - Developed, recruited and managed sales team
  
  ID-EAZ – Client-server software application for law enforcement.

  - Established technology team to take project from concept to engineering prototype
  - Established company name, branding, positioning strategy and messaging
  - Developed business model, funding presentation and marketing materials
  
  All Digital Printing & Graphics – Commercial printing company.
  - Served as turnaround CEO
  - Completed company name change, branding, positioning strategy and messaging
  - Planned and executed online and direct mail campaigns
  - Established sales department and formal process, doubled company run-rate in six months

  - Renegotiated equipment financing and applied other cost-cutting measures

  - Successfully negotiated company sale

• Designer and Information Architect

  SpinCircuit, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  Enterprise software product for the PCB design industry. Funded by HP, Flextronics and Cadence Design Systems. 


  
  - Early employee with cross-departmental responsibilities

  - Prototyped, standardized and implemented the product user interface and information architecture

  - Led multi-functional engineering team in front-end implementation

  - Worked with management team on various company branding and marketing initiatives

• Design and Marketing Consultant

  Various

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 1996 — March 2000 (3 years 10 months)

  Provided consulting services in the areas of branding, print, web, multimedia and events.
  
  - Designed and executed various cross-media marketing campaigns
  - Managed and promoted events with up to 5,500 attendees

Vitaly Golomb’s Education

• Cogswell Polytechnical College

  BA , Computer and Video Imaging

  Activities and Societies:

  Cum Laude

• Santa Clara University

  Communications

Additional Information

Vitaly Golomb’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Follow me on Twitter

Vitaly Golomb’s Interests:

Family, music (performing), film, snowboarding, motorcycle racing, and staying fit.

Vitaly Golomb’s Groups:

Board and Advisory Positions:
• Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association
• Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce
• Silicon Valley Innovation Institute
• United Nations Association and Business Council

•    The DEMO Conference
•    Executive Suite
•    Web 2 Print and Web Marketing for Print Providers (http://maximizeprintingsales.wordpress.com)
•    Web-to-print
•    Print Industry Networking Group
•    Printing Industries of America Networking Group
•    Print 2.0
•    Web to Print & Dynamic Publishing

Vitaly Golomb’s Honors:

• DEMOfall '09 presenter
• Runner-up, Global Technology Symposium at Stanford 2009 Pitch Competition
• Guest speaker at Jewish High Tech Community, "Russian and Ukrainian Software Development Outsourcing"
• Guest speaker at Silicon Valley Innovation Institute, "The Rise of Web 2.0"
• Guest speaker on Business Radio Network, "Small Business Online Marketing Strategies"
• Guest lecturer, Web Design and Online Marketing:
- Northwestern Polytechnic University
- California State University, Hayward
- University of California, Berkeley

Vitaly Golomb’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
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