Kevin is an investor at PacRim Venture Partners, where he spends his time on software and services investments.
Before crossing over to the dark side, he was at Epinions.com for several years where he headed up the product group. Prior to Epinions, he worked with the Media & Entertainment and Information Technology groups at Booz, Allen & Hamilton. His clients included several of the major Hollywood music companies, where he redesigned pricing programs and organizations to meet the challenges facing the music industry. He also worked on several major strategy projects with Silicon Valley technology firms.
In a pre-business life, he worked at Computer Sciences Corporation’s office in Heidelberg, Germany, heading up a team responsible for developing in-the-field prototypes of high technology applications for the US Army in Europe.
While people may debate the death of email, there is no question that many email servers are already overloaded with spam. Current spam solutions are beginning to address the problem, but so far they all suffer from the arms race issue - as fast as we come up with new ways to fight spam, spammers are finding new ways to deliver it to us. While the functionality of email will certainly continue, the current system must change. When the change comes, it will deliver the future of email to Microsoft. more