Nick Arnett
8059 Park Villa Circle
Cupertino, CA 95014
Phone/Fax: 408-904-7198 It's been one startup or turnaround
after another for a long time. Co-founded a company that hoped to transform identity on the Internet. Headed marketing at an information retrieval infrastructure company founded and advised by Internet pioneers.
First Internet product manager at the leading search software company through its IPO. Created and operated the top multimedia market research, strategy and publishing company with clients in senior management in
computing, publishing and entertainment. Enjoy planning and executing strategies for capturing emerging markets. Strong public speaker and writer. Technically competent; have created working prototypes for several
projects, work well with engineering, sales and customers. Professional Experience February, 2000 - April, 2001
Opion Inc.
Herndon, Virginia
Co-founder, Senior Vice President. Invented patent-pending process for measuring public sentiment via analysis of public discussions to identify influencers, developed prototype and business plan. We
raised $7 million and brought first product to market in spring, 2001. Ongoing responsibilities included research, communications, product planning and management, results evaluation and analysis. Traveled between
home in California and office in Virginia quite a bit. Company shut down in 2001. August, 1999 - January, 2000
Invisible Worlds
San Francisco, California
Vice President of Marketing.
Responsible for planning and executing corporate and product marketing, public relations and market research for a company developing distributed, XML-based information infrastructure startup led by several Internet
pioneers. Helped raise $10 million in venture round. Company relocated to Petaluma; I didn't. Company shut down in 2001. April, 1998 - July, 1999
Self-employed
Sunnyvale, California
Investor, Author, Consultant. While caring for a seriously ill relative, managed my Internet investments (569 percent return in 1999), wrote a book comparing information technology in the Renaissance and today,
performed market consulting for publishing supply chain integration software company (Impresse). 1994 - 1998
Verity Inc.
Sunnyvale, California
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Evangelist.
Took the company's search technology to the Web, where it continues to dominate embedded and server markets. Internet product sales went from zero to $50 million. Planned and managed products; communicated strategies to customers, analysts and press. Keynote speaker at AusWeb'96, White House Conference on Leveraging Cyberspace, Internet World, PC Expo, Showcase, etc.
1988 - 1994
Multimedia Computing Corp.
Sunnyvale, California
CEO, Editor-in-Chief. Co-founded with Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies. Published industry newsletter, on-line forums, reports, books and seminars. Clients included top management at Microsoft, IBM, Simon &
Schuster, Apple, Intel and others. Supervised of staff of seven. Co-founder of the UCLA Business School's Roundtable in Multimedia. Published articles in Rolling Stone, PC World, Business Marketing, others. Sold
publications to Simba Information in 1992. 1988
InfoWorld
Menlo Park, California
SENIOR WRITER.
Covered database market, Apple Computer, NeXT and other technology news. Speaker at industry events - Comdex, MacWorld, etc. 1985 - 1988
American City Business Journals
San Francisco, Charlotte, Richmond, Columbus and San Jose
Editor, Newspaper Startup Team.
Freelanced political reporting, then joined rapidly expanding city business journal publisher as high-technology reporter at its San Jose start-up. Wrote a weekly personal computing column syndicated to 50 newspapers. Delivered news via television and radio as backup broadcast reporter. Startup team roles included business plan development, technology planning and implementation for new papers and editorial coverage for new papers in Charlotte, Columbus and San Francisco.
1984 - 1985
Los Altos Town Crier
Los Altos, California
EDITOR.
Wrote and produced community newspaper. Supervised freelance contributors. 1982 - 1984
Creative Strategies
San Jose, California
ANALYST/WRITER. Wrote, researched and edited reports on telecommunications and computing. 1978 - 1982
WWSW and KQV radio stations
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NEWS WRITER/REPORTER.
Covered major news events for large radio stations. Interviewed, wrote and edited news and audio clips.
EDUCATION
1978 - 1982
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
B.A. Communications/Writing ORGANIZATIONS
1994-Present
Plugged In Community Computing Center
East Palo Alto, California
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. Strategic planning,
fund-raising, arm-twisting. AWARDS 1985 - First-place news reporting awards from the Computer Press Association and American City Business Journals. |
