Residence San Francisco Name Kevin Henrikson | Role Angel investor | |
Occupation Vice President of Engineering at Acompli Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles | ||
Marketing for startups enterprise an interview with microsoft s kevin henrikson
Kevin Henrikson is a San Francisco based entrepreneur, angel investor, engineer, and speaker who has headed several software companies, including Zimbra, Alpha Brand Media and Acompli.
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- Marketing for startups enterprise an interview with microsoft s kevin henrikson
- Career
- Speaking and writing
- References
Career
Kevin Henrikson earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000. At Zimbra, Henrikson served as the Director of Engineering and managed the development of Zimbra Advanced Client (AJAX based) and Standard Client (JSP/HTML based). Before joining Zimbra in 2005, Henrikson was a leader for Federal Express, iSearch (SAAS startup), and Openwave Systems. Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 for $350 million, which later sold it to VMware. Henrikson then left Zimbra after Yahoo! acquired it and then started to serve as the entrepreneur in residence of Redpoint Ventures. Henrikson serves as the Vice President of Engineering at Acompli, which he co-founded, and has raised $7.3 million in funding for its mobile app product. Acompli was acquired by Microsoft for $200 million in 2014 and is now Outlook Mobile. Henrikson is also an angel investor, having helped raise over $1.1 million for the Ministry of Supply.
Speaking and writing
Kevin Henrikson has served as a speaker for various technology related conferences including those discussed by Oracle, in which he presented on offline support; SitePoint, in which he discussed ameliorating "the performance of web applications that rely on large JavaScript/CSS codebases; and Moz, in which he discussed outsourcing work online.
Dropbox, Pantheon, Zimbra and VMWare, among others, have featured technology related articles written by Kevin Henrikson.