About
My name is Kevin. I really enjoy life. More specifically, I really enjoy my life. I also enjoy family (girlfriend and her dog included), friends, live music, recorded music, travel, college football, running outdoors, drinkies, beautiful (preferably foreign) girls, and the Internet. In that order.
I work at MaxPreps, a sports media company that was acquired by CBS Corporation in April 2007, as the Vice President of Strategy, Distribution and Partnership Development. Since joining MaxPreps in 2006, I’ve spent a good part of my days analyzing and developing business and technology partnerships that enable and accelerate the production, distribution, and consumption of our content and services.
In my current role I am responsible for the development and execution of MaxPreps’ business and audience development efforts, including strategic relationships, distribution partnerships and content syndication deals with key media companies across television, newspaper, radio, web, mobile and video platforms. Additionally, following the CBS acquisition, I also focus on our integration across CBS properties, including CBSSports.com, CBS local television and CBS Radio.
I first joined MaxPreps in 2006 as the Director of Community and Member Services and helped launch the first social network for teen athletes, TRUpreps. In this role I was responsible for coordinating the company’s technical, creative design and marketing resources to get the product from concept to launch.
Previously, I worked at DEP, a NY-based venture capital firm, where I focused on early stage technology-enabled services in the media, software and business services verticals. While there, I led investments in MaxPreps (acquired by CBS) and Epic Cycle, and I was actively involved in the fund’s investments in enpocket (acquired by Nokia), Gomez, The Guild, inQ, Island Data, Netmotion, SilverCarrot, Sportvision and Vitalstream (acquired by Internap).
Before venture capital, I was a technology and media investment banker at Morgan Stanley where I had the opportunity to work with many world-class executive teams and on several industry-changing transactions, including Google’s $1.7bn IPO, VMware’s $635mm sale to EMC, Legato’s $1.7bn sale to EMC, and Cisco’s $500mm acquisition of Linksys.
Early in my career, I worked as a systems engineer at Sun Microsystems.
I received my B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. While at Cal, I played for the nation’s top ranked varsity rugby team where we earned the school four national championships.
I’m originally from the Ferndale, a very small ranching town located in the redwoods of far northern California. My town had a population of 1300, my (public) high school had about 150 students, and my graduating class was 30. Picture the movie Varsity Blues, except set in northern California rather than Texas…and with better acting.
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