Podcasting Pioneer, Speaker, Author
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder, CTO at GigaVox Media
- Executive Director at The Conversations Network
- Past
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- CEO at RDS Strategies LLC
- Publisher at RDS Press
- Host, Producer at IT Conversations
- CTO, VP Engineering at NextMonet.com
- VP Engineering at Organic Online
- CTO, VP Engineering at GoodCompany.com
- CEO at CoSite
- CEO at Rational Data Systems
- Education
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- New York University
- University of California, Berkeley
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Doug Kaye’s Summary
Co-Founder and CTO of GigaVox Media (www.gigavox.com)
Founder and Executive Directors of The Conversations Network (www.conversationsnetwork.org)
Founder of "IT Conversations" an Internet talk-radio network for techies.
Author of "Loosely Coupled--The Missing Pieces of Web Services" (2003), and "Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services" (2002).
Doug Kaye’s Specialties:
Gray-hair experience in IT, radio and film/TV.
Doug Kaye’s Experience
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Co-Founder, CTO
GigaVox Media
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)
June 2006 — Present (2 years 5 months)
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Executive Director
The Conversations Network
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
The Conversations Network is a non-profit online publisher of recordings of spoken-word events. www.conversationsnetwork.org
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CEO
RDS Strategies LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — May 2006 (6 years)
www.rds.com
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Publisher
RDS Press
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
December 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 5 months)
Publishers of extraordinary books for IT and related business strategy (www.rdspress.com). 2003: "Loosely Coupled--The Missing Pieces of Web Services". 2004: "Digital Identity" by Phil Windley, and two other great IT-strategy titles.
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Host, Producer
IT Conversations
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2003 — March 2006 (2 years 10 months)
IT Conversations (www.itconversations.com) are recorded (MP3 audio) interviews with the movers, shakers, and gurus of information technology. They're a new production of RDS Strategies LLC, and we hope you'll enjoy them. Stream IT Conversations to your desktop or laptop, or download them into your MP3 player and listen to them while you drive, workout, or sit on the beach with that piña colada.
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CTO, VP Engineering
NextMonet.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 1999 — June 2000 (1 year)
On-line sales of fine art, backed by CMGI and Knight-Ridder. Cool technology (and a great team) for yet another flawed dot-com. But we had a great time.
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VP Engineering
Organic Online
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
July 1998 — June 1999 (1 year)
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CTO, VP Engineering
GoodCompany.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 1997 — May 1998 (1 year 3 months)
One of the first online dating services, and based on terrific neural-net (artificial intelligence) technology. Our backers (a Philadelphia-based bank--go figure) got cold feet too early and pulled the plug before the official launch.
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CEO
CoSite
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1996 — November 1996 (11 months)
An early web-hosting and managed services company.
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CEO
Rational Data Systems
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1978 — December 1995 (17 years 4 months)
System software for OEMs including compilers and protocol-stack implementations (e.g., TCP/IP) and terminal-emulation software for OEM partners such as Data General, HP, Wang, and Xerox. Novell's authorized porting house for Portable NetWare--NetWare on Unix way back in 1992. Our systems-integration division built and managed huge networks for clients such as E.F. Hutton, First American Title, and Pacific Bell.
Doug Kaye’s Education
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New York University
Post-Grad, Film and Television, 1971 — 1972
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University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Drama, 1966 — 1970
- Activities and Societies:
- B.A. Degree in Directing and Lighting Design
Roslyn Schneider Eisner Prize in Directing
Additional Information
Doug Kaye’s Websites:
Doug Kaye’s Interests:
New Media, Aviation
Doug Kaye’s Honors:
Podcasting "Person of the Year" 2005
Doug Kaye’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
