David Mendels

Current

• Fellow at New England Clean Energy Council
• Board Member at Brightcove
• Advisor at Allurent

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Past

• SVP Business Productivity Business Unit at Adobe Systems
• SVP, Enterprise and Developer BU at Adobe Systems
• EVP, Products at Macromedia

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Education

• University of California, Berkeley
• Wesleyan University

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Industry

Computer Software

David Mendels’s Summary

Software product executive with broad experience as a General Manager running a business unit, including product management, marketing, and product development. Also, deeply involved in corporate strategy and business development.

David Mendels’s Specialties:

General Management, Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Development, Business Development, Product Marketing

David Mendels’s Experience

• Fellow

  New England Clean Energy Council

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  May 2009 — Present (3 months)

  The Clean Energy Fellowship Program is an innovative entrepreneurial development program designed to rapidly transition experienced entrepreneurs and executives into the region’s clean energy sector.
  
  The Fellowship Program addresses a simple but acute problem: a lack of repeat entrepreneurs in the sector— a critical ingredient in venture formation, funding, and growth. The Clean Energy Fellowship Program has been planned by the New England Clean Energy Council to offer an intensive, half-time, semester-length, clean energy program to accelerate transitions into the sector.
  
  The Clean Energy Fellowship Program combines seminars, lectures, case studies, lab visits, and capstone projects. These business planning projects are based on leading-edge emerging technologies for corporate, university and DOE labs, and done in close collaboration with leading VC’s and entrepreneurs from the clean energy sector.
  
  A wide range of institutions are participating. These include MIT, UMass, Harvard, local venture capital firms, DOE national labs such as NREL, established clean energy companies, policy-making bodies, investment banks and energy project financiers, and energy infrastructure and engineering companies.

• Board Member

  Brightcove

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

• Advisor

  Allurent

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years)

• SVP Business Productivity Business Unit

  Adobe Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 4 months)

• SVP, Enterprise and Developer BU

  Adobe Systems

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  December 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 6 months)

• EVP, Products

  Macromedia

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)

  April 1992 — December 2005 (13 years 9 months)

David Mendels’s Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  MA , Japanese Studies , 2000 — 2002

• Wesleyan University

  BA , Asian Studies , 1984 — 1988

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