I work with executive leaders and investors to drive innovation, define technology direction and drive revenue growth - leading game-changing product management, integrated marketing and business analytics, strategic partnering and M&A programs. Focus on consumer-facing commerce, analytics, SaaS and IoT platforms.
I specialize in managing product/engineering teams that tackle huge disruptive market opportunities: leading solution strategy, grounded in sound P&L/financial modeling, validated by buying customers and key partners, and marketed with a clear value proposition and competitive position. I have led product management teams and biz dev to define, refine and prioritize the product roadmap, structured contracts, led budgeting, fundraising and M&A transactions, and managed projects that are true to corporate strategy.
I've served as start-up CEO/CTO, product line P&L executive, head corporate development teams, VC/investor, and/or Board Director for 10 technology companies that collectively raised $490m and exited at over $15 billion while I was engaged.
Skills and Experience:
- Global management experience: 7 years abroad
- Recognized innovation leader for Fortune 500 and VC-backed start-ups
- Product management: led 10 product and engineering teams
- Strategy & corporate development: Expert in leading cross-functional teams, defining impactful product- and sales-driven partnerships, delivering Board/investor pitches, leading fundraising, investment and M&A efforts
- Finance: P&L mgmt, detailed M&A integration plans
- Business Development: Developed GTM partnerships with Accenture, Microsoft, Samsung, Best Buy, Google, Comcast, Time Warner, Yahoo and others
Product Experience and Tech Specialties:
- High-performance, high-availability SW architectures
- Freemium, ad-driven and subscription business models
- Data-driven UX: mobile, tablets, game console and connected TV screens
- TV / advertising
- IoT and sensor analytics
- Data visualization
VP, Business and Corporate Development @ ACQUIRED BY IBM ANNOUNCED DEC. 8, 2015
Member of the executive team for VC-backed SaaS company ($41m raised, late stage revenues) enabling consumer television on Web, iOS, Android, Smart TVs, XBOX, PS3, Apple TV and Chromecast.
Head of innovation, corporate development, new business development (strategy/product/go to market/sales), partner ecosystem, and M&A, with emphasis on creating scalable and repeatable go to market programs. Manage product and sales/marketing partnerships with Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Snapchat, Blackarrow, IBM, Elemental Technologies, Harmonic, FreeWheel, Adobe, Akamai, Verizon, Encompass Digital Media, and others. From June 2014 to Present (1 year 7 months) Board Member, Advisor, Investor - Technology Ventures @ I work with corporate innovation teams, founders and engineering teams, Boards, PE firms and VC firms to develop detailed executable strategies, technology product and marketing plans for high-tech companies enabling consumer subscriptions (using SaaS, PaaS, SDKs, APIs).
I also incubate ventures through pre-existing relationships with prototype development and engineering teams.
Services: Corporate innovation and spin-offs, venture funding and fundraising for the right teams, buy vs. build for the right markets, and product/engineering manager for the right ventures.
Recent ventures typically involve monetization of device- or multi-device consumer experiences: mapping the promise of IoT and M2M data collection/analytics to e-commerce, defining the UX, monetizing multi-platform television, mapping TV/brand advertising to e-commerce success, mapping TV/brand advertising to e-commerce success, use of social marketing in acquiring users, social TV, and unified device analytics.
Strategic plans often involve implementing a combination of new product development (build), recruiting (esp. engineering), marketing/positioning/messaging, partnerships, fundraising and/or M&A (buy).
Founder/Investor, Robopack (a subscription driven "anti-Costco")
Business and Corporate Development Consultant, Clearleap
Founder/Investor, Listminder, a M2M IoT platform (stealth)
PE Sponsor/Chief Product Officer, Multiscreen software platform initiative ($350m)
Product Consultant, Interdigital (Advertising Analytics)
M&A Consultant, Juno (E-commerce, social marketing software)
Product Consultant, Gamesparks (BaaS software for gaming companies)
Product Consultant, Highwinds (Infrastructure / CDN for gaming companies)
Product Consultant, Playjam (Development software for gaming companies)
Product Consultant, Rumble (Second Screen TV software) From January 2010 to Present (6 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSVP, Business and Corporate Development @ From September 2012 to June 2013 (10 months) SVP, Strategy and Corporate Development @ From March 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 5 months) CEO / CTO (Co-founder) @ From August 2006 to August 2011 (5 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaManaging Partner (Co-founder) @ From January 1999 to June 2011 (12 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSr. Director, Product Management @ From April 2010 to March 2011 (1 year) Managing Director (Co-founder) @ From January 1997 to December 1998 (2 years) Sr. Manager, Technology Architecture and Innovation @ From July 1990 to December 1996 (6 years 6 months)
Executive Education @ Harvard Business School From 2010 to 2010 BSEE @ University of Michigan From 1986 to 1990 Jeff Allen is skilled in: Team Leadership, P&L Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Start-ups, Product Innovation, Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Development, Engineering Management, M&A experience, Digital Media, Corporate Development, Venture Capital, Entrepreneur, Management Consulting