A senior executive with passionate leadership and an entrepreneurs heart.
Calgary, Canada Area
- Current
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- CEO, Mob4Hire at Mob4Hire.com
- Past
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- Chief Marketing Officer at CurveDental.com
- Director, Business Development at Intuit Canada & UK
- Director, CP2 at Intuit
- VP, Marketing and Sales at Intuit Canada
- President at Intuit Greenpoint
- Vice-President at Intuit Greenpoint
- Vice-President at Greenpoint
- VP at Cantax
- VP, Product Development and Technical Services at Videotex Atlantic Ltd.
- Education
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- Mount Royal College
- Acadia University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Stephen King’s Summary
I'm a passionate and creative senior level executive with 25+ years in the tax and accounting software industry, in both small private startups and large public companies. I have provided passionate leadership in many facets of business, from product management / development, to sales & marketing to call centre management, while directing legal, HR and finance activities.
I co-founded Greenpoint Software in 1995, and in 5 years grew it to the national leader in Canadian professional tax preparation industry with over 2,500 accountants using the software. In 2000, Greenpoint Software was acquired by Intuit Canada, where I was President of the Intuit Greenpoint division for several years, and finished off as the VP Sales and Marketing. During my time at Intuit, I helped grow Intuit Canada by 191% from 2001 to 2007 to revenues over $100M. I was also a director of the $2B parent company, Intuit Inc.
Since I left Intuit in 2007, I've re-immersed myself back into entrepreneurial technologies and the high-tech scene, using www.techvibes.com as my blogging communication tool:
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/global/author/stephen-king
Most recently, I had a six month contract as CMO at CurveDental.com, where I helped raise $2.5M in capital, signed two major distributors in the U.S., and helped define a SaaS product roadmap.
In addition to a Bachelor of Computer Science and Certified Financial Planning education, I have an MBA's worth of leadership training through Intuit, including G.E. type Six Sigma Process Excellence education, my six month "online community / social networking" action learning project in the U.S., as well as spending time with Executive Coaches.
One more thing. I love life!!! Check out www.opticfrog.com. c ya.
Stephen King’s Experience
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CEO, Mob4Hire
Mob4Hire.com
(Wireless industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 month)
Mob4Hire.com is a Web 2.0 service using crowd sourcing to solve the complicated problem of mobile phone application testing. With over 100,000 mobile phone application developers in the world ... they all have one thing in common ... testing is expensive. With 10 different operating systems / platforms + 7 large cell phone manufacturers, in 2008 alone, over 500 new cell phones will be released in the marketplace. And, each carrier has different requirements for each handset. What's an application developer to do (especially those writing GPS applications)? One option is to buy all the handsets for all the carriers in a country and then send people there to test. OR, submit a project to Mob4Hire.com and have it bid on by thousands of mobile phone testers from around the world just waiting to have some Q/A fun.
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Chief Marketing Officer
CurveDental.com
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)
CurveDental.com is leading SaaS dental software company, with solutions from administration (scheduling, billing, insurance) to clinical (charting, patient education) and marketing (recare). As CMO, I was responsible for managing distributor relationships in 10 countries, trade shows, web strategy (SEO/SEM/Content), and managing a direct sales team. I was also CMO for Orasphere.com in this same period. During the six months I helped raise $2.5M in private capital, signed 2 major distribution agreements in the U.S., and helped define a new SaaS product roadmap.
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Director, Business Development
Intuit Canada & UK
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)
My job in this short term position was to define the 3 to 5 year growth strategy for Canada and the U.K. Specifically, I analyzed Intuit's small business success in Canada and the U.S., and looked for opportunities to apply the same technques to the U.K. small business market (within the context of the U.K. business environment). Typically, Canada is 10% the market opportunity of the U.S., and the U.K. is 20% ... what strategies would we need to employ for our business to reach those targets?
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Director, CP2
Intuit
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2007 (5 years)
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VP, Marketing and Sales
Intuit Canada
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — February 2007 (2 years 1 month)
As VP, Sales and Marketing for Intuit Canada, I was responsible for the branding and marketing of QuickTax, Quicken, QuickBooks and ProFile, as well as all of our sales channels (retail, direct, eCommerce and phone), in addition to our P.R. efforts and government relations. I led approximately 100 staff, located in Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City. During that time, I saw QuickBooks retail market share grow from 38% to 52%. Overall, I helped grow revenues at Intuit Canada from about $30M to over $100M from 2000 to 2007. I'm very proud of the role I played in making Intuit the #1 retail software in Canada, as well as making millions of Canadians live's easier!
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President
Intuit Greenpoint
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 10 months)
As President of Intuit Greenpoint, I oversaw the Professional Accounting Solutions business; which included ProFile Professional Financial Application Suite that allowed tax professionals to complete Personal T1, Corporate T2, and Trust T3 tax returns on behalf of their clients. I grew this business from $7M to $12M during this period serving over 10,000 clients (from one man operations to large accounting firms such as Meyers Norris Penny and BDO Dunwoody). I also led the IntuitAdvisor program helping accountants recommend QuickBooks to their small business clients ... I grew the membership from about 1,000 members to 3,500 having a significant impact on QuickBooks growth. As part of this role, I led the Calgary office (~80 staff in all aspects of product development, marketing, call centre, supporting functions and operation).
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Vice-President
Intuit Greenpoint
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — August 2002 (2 years)
This role was an extension of the same role I had when Greenpoint was a privately held firm, with the added responsibilities within the much larger publicly traded company Intuit (such as reporting, long-range strategic planning, HR 360 performance management). It was during this time I also became a Director of California based Intuit U.S., being one of the 280 executives leading the 8,000 person firm.
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Vice-President
Greenpoint
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1995 — August 2000 (5 years 4 months)
In 1995, I co-founded Greenpoint Software, and in addition to being Vice President, I was also on the Board of Directors. We created the ProFile Financial Application Suite for the professional tax industry which is now used by over 10,000 firms across Canada (ProFile allowed professionals to complete tax returns for their clients; Personal T1's, Corporate T2's, Trust T3's, T4's, T5's, etc...) As an entreprenaurial startup, one wears a number of hats, especially during years of rapid growth, both from a customer acquisition standpoint as well as employee hiring. I was the main programmer for our ProFile FP (Financial Planning) software, programming in Pascal in the object-oriented Borland Delphi enviroment. I also oversaw most non-development related business functions of the company ... website development, marketing, sales channels, etc...
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VP
Cantax
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1988 — May 1995 (6 years 8 months)
Cantax was the original large consumer brand for Canadian tax software in 1988 (we produced both retail consumer versions as well as professional tax preparer versions). I was the 5th person on at the company, doing software support and product development. In 1991, the privately held company was acquired by Softkey Software out of Boston (later known as The Learning Company TLC). I became VP and helped grow the company from $2M to $7M. In 1995, operations (development and marketing) were consolidated in eastern Canada, meaning they no longer needed executive leadership in Calgary and they invited several of us to leave.
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VP, Product Development and Technical Services
Videotex Atlantic Ltd.
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
September 1985 — May 1988 (2 years 9 months)
Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Videotex Altantic provided distributed computer graphic information systems for retail, tourism and the rental industries. The installations were typically graphic kiosks with custom keyboards placed in high-traffic customer locations. I programmed a PDP-11 mini-computer, driving by a 6052 microprocessor MUX board, and sending information to PC XTs (8088 assembly code). I used Pascal for second generation language programming requirements.
Stephen King’s Education
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Mount Royal College
CFP, Certified Financial Planning, 1995 — 1997
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Acadia University
BCS, Computer Science, 1981 — 1985
- Activities and Societies:
- Hockey, Drama, Music, Drinking
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Stephen King’s Interests:
internet, snowboarding, music, guitar, technology, recording, social networking, video, taxes, small business, people
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