Mike Grishaver

Current

• CEO & Founder at Thingfo

Past

• Director of Product Management at Yahoo!
• Product Mgr at Yahoo
• Director of Business Development at A.D.A.M.

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Education

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• UC Berkeley

Recommended

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Connections

279 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Mike Grishaver’s Summary

Creative, results-driven leader with experience developing innovative Internet products at startups and large media companies. Proven track record and expertise defining, marketing and monetizing community products at leading Internet media companies.
Key experience integrating and leveraging content, community, personalization, and search technologies. Interested in building new products and experiences and working with high-energy teams.

Mike Grishaver’s Specialties:

Consumer internet products, social media, agile development process, business development, partnerships, business modeling, product planning, online marketing, guerrilla marketing.

Mike Grishaver’s Experience

• CEO & Founder

  Thingfo

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

• Director of Product Management

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  December 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 6 months)

  Director of Social Media, Yahoo! Media Group.
  
  Pro-actively developed product and business strategies. Built financial models and product plans, recruited team members across functional groups. Evangelized initiative across the company, developed and managed strategic partnerships, and led core product team through development cycles.
  
  Defined, developed and launched white-label, web-services based social media engine. The system integrates user-created content (blogs, videos, comments, ratings) and profiles into contextually relevant sites, and is now used across multiple business units, consumer-facing sites, and internationally. The infrastructure drives user engagement and revenue across the company and the team is a standout in its group.

• Product Mgr

  Yahoo

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; yhoo; Internet industry)

  July 2002 — December 2005 (3 years 6 months)

  Product Manager for Yahoo! Health.
  
  Pro-actively developed internal blogging tools now used on over 100 Yahoo sites in 10 countries.
  
  Launched first consumer-facing blogs on Yahoo! (Health expert blogging program)
  
  Lead role in product development, day-to-day site operations, and cross-functional management of sales, marketing and business development activities for multi-million dollar business line.
  
  Pro-actively introduced Agile development process to team (first Agile team at Yahoo!). Developed and launched a number of public health awareness campaigns in conjunction with non-profit organizations and celebrity ambassadors.

• Director of Business Development

  A.D.A.M.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; adam; Internet industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Director of business development and lead producer for online health content and community site.

Mike Grishaver’s Education

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  MD, Medicine, 1997

• UC Berkeley

  BA, Political Science, Biology, December 1991

Additional Information

Mike Grishaver’s Websites:

• My Website