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Kieron OShea CEO |
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As a senior executive for over 15 years, Kieron has served as strategic advisor to numerous leading-edge technology companies, most recently: TechCrunch, Edgeio, Verseon, Songbird, and as senior strategy advisor to the largest non-executive
shareholder at Viacom. |
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Mr. OShea was the VP of Corporate and Business Development and Senior VP of Strategic
Development at Conversagent, renamed Colloquis; the world's leading provider of patented software for developing and hosting interactive agents that run on the Web, IM and
wireless networks, acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT). Kieron was also an investor and co-founder of ActiveBuddy, creator of SmarterChild™,
the interactive agent used by millions of Instant Messaging users worldwide. |
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He is the former CEO of MessagingPoint, the supplier of remotely managed, broad-based IM infrastructure for the enterprise; and principal at Winfield Investment Partners, where he directed early stage investment strategies focused on Internet sector companies. His influence led to the development of Digital Post Office; renamed Critical Path (NASDAQ:CPTH) |
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Kieron is widely regarded for his role as co-founder and CEO of Providence Systems, creators of Providence Systems/Parental Guidance; acquired by Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC). He and his team developed the world’s first Internet filtering application that included the breakthrough contribution of the “white list”, which underpins most of the parental controls in use today. |
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Kieron was among the first appointees to the World Wide Web Consortium (w3C) at MIT and is a graduate of UCLA. |
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