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Company Name: Kyte Corporate Site: http://www.kyte.com Updated: 2010-06-09 09:04:45 PST |
Kyte adds Dan FitzSimmons, Chief Revenue Officer
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Dan FitzSimmons - Chief Revenue OfficerDan leads Kyte's domestic and international customer acquisition efforts. He brings to the company over 18 years of sales and revenue management experience in the technology sector, including leadership positions at Limelight Networks, Symantec/Veritas, and Gartner, Inc.
Most recently, he served as Vice President of Sales for Limelight Networks, where he led their transition from inside sales to a field based organization, as well as developed a strategic focus on the largest brands on the internet, which directly contributed to revenue growth of greater than 100 percent from 2007-2009.
Before Limelight, FitzSimons led regional sales efforts for Symantec in the enterprise software market and delivered significant growth in Fortune 1000 customers.
Before Symantec, FitzSimons spent nine years with Gartner, Inc. in a variety of sales and operational leadership roles across the US, Europe, and Latin America. During his tenure at Gartner, revenues grew from $400 million to $1 billion.
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Daniel Graf - Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Daniel is an internationally recognized technology pioneer with a rich background in home entertainment, consumer electronics and Internet services.
Prior to Kyte, founded in 2006, Daniel worked in the world of converging media consumer products. In 1999 and 2000 he was instrumental in the build-up of ReQuest Multimedia, an award-winning Consumer Electronics Startup Company, based in New York. There he created the world's first MP3 Hard Disk Jukebox, the predecessor to Apple's "iPod". It took the team 11 months from product idea to market. ReQuest Multimedia is running a successful business up to this day.
In 2001, Daniel joined Philips Consumer Electronics where he developed several world premieres in the field of consumer electronics converging with Internet services, such as the world's first Internet Audio stereo system and the first wireless Home Entertainment System with Internet video services. In addition to creating these awards winning new media products and bringing them to market, Daniel, together with his team, explored new businesses in the Connected Planet domain which included the development of new value propositions for TV. These propositions included domains such as IPTV, peer to peer community TV, Internet content service overlays (e.g. RSS and weather information "on top" of a TV signal), mobile TV and others.
Before ReQuest Multimedia, Daniel worked at several other companies in the field of software and electronics. Daniel has earned several awards, including the "Top 100 Swiss People of the Year 2000" award, a list of Switzerland's most outstanding achievers, awarded by Sonntagszeitung. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Interstate College of Engineering (NTB), Switzerland, and an MS in Computer and Systems Engineering from RPI, Troy NY.
Gannon Hall - Chief Operating Officer
Gannon leads product, sales and marketing and brings to the company over 15 years experience in both emerging and established consumer internet and enterprise software. Prior to joining Kyte, Gannon was Principal at Horn Group, Inc., a premier digital marketing and public relations agency with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston and Washington DC. As head of the agency's New York office, Gannon was responsible for client strategy, business development and operations. Under his leadership the New York office won several prestigious branding, digital marketing and public relations awards, and became the highest grossing office in the agency.
Prior to Horn Group, Gannon led Hall Consulting, an award winning San Francisco interactive design, development and marketing consultancy that he founded in 1994. Clients included a diverse set of emerging and established enterprise software companies including Vitria, AvantGo (Sybase), Commerce One, and PlaceWare (Microsoft).
Gannon began his career as a web developer and consultant for companies including Pacific Telesis Group and US Web San Francisco, where he helped design and build websites and internet applications for clients including Rolling Stone Magazine, Proxim and Flextronics.
Dan FitzSimmons - Chief Revenue Officer
Dan leads Kyte's domestic and international customer acquisition efforts. He brings to the company over 18 years of sales and revenue management experience in the technology sector, including leadership positions at Limelight Networks, Symantec/Veritas, and Gartner, Inc.
Most recently, he served as Vice President of Sales for Limelight Networks, where he led their transition from inside sales to a field based organization, as well as developed a strategic focus on the largest brands on the internet, which directly contributed to revenue growth of greater than 100 percent from 2007-2009.
Before Limelight, FitzSimons led regional sales efforts for Symantec in the enterprise software market and delivered significant growth in Fortune 1000 customers.
Before Symantec, FitzSimons spent nine years with Gartner, Inc. in a variety of sales and operational leadership roles across the US, Europe, and Latin America. During his tenure at Gartner, revenues grew from $400 million to $1 billion.
Erik Abair - Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
Erik is in charge of the top level software architecture and leads the Kyte engineering team. He has spent more than a decade in the field of software development and has been managing engineering teams (both in-house and distributed) for over six years.
Prior to co-founding Kyte, Erik served as Software Architect and engineering team lead for several Royal Philips Electronics projects from 2001 to 2005.
In addition to his professional work at Philips, Erik founded and managed a distributed team of designers and engineers as part of the open source MAMEoX project.
Erik began his professional career as a software developer for ReQuest Multimedia in 1999 where he met Kyte co-founder Daniel Graf.
Anne Dorman - Chief Financial Officer
Anne is in charge of finances, legal, and administrative affairs and brings over 30 years of Silicon Valley high-tech entrepreneurship experience to Kyte.
Anne has served as CFO of Advent Software, Ascend Communications (merged with Lucent, 1999), Atomic Vision (pre-IPO merger with Red Hat, 1999), Automattic, Cholestech, HealthCentral, Industrial Origami, Devicescape, Silicon Spice (merged with Broadcom, 2000), SKOLAR (merged with Wolters Kluwer), Sphere, Synaptics, Treasury Services Corporation (merged with Oracle, 1997), among many others.
Prior to that, she was employed by Arthur Young & Company (predecessor to Ernst & Young) from 1976 to 1985, where she was a founding member of the firm's Entrepreneurial Services Group.
Anne is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), holds an MBA, and is member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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