Kevin Owyang

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Owyang is a multitalented, performance-driven, critical & strategic leader that thrives in venture-stage as well as NYSE listed companies in consumer and B2B markets. Over two decades, he has demonstrated an ability to rapidly understand the intricacies of diverse industries and insightfully identify the right levers to exploit new trends.

As Co-President at a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI) and reporting to the Vice Chairman, Mr. Owyang turned around an unprofitable natural gas company as revenue increased 2x to $3 Billion annually through 5 merger integrations. He rebuilt critical profit centers growing them 7x. He evangelized new, progressive policies, gained broad company-wide support, and won approval from the Board of Directors.

Reporting to the CEO & President of Aerie Networks Mr. Owyang directed development of a $3.5 Billion fiber-optic network. Mr. Owyang created the offering memorandum and financial model raising $130 MM in venture capital at a pre-money valuation of $500 MM. He later spearheaded downsizing and won support of multiple executive-peers from Qwest, Nortel, Lucent, Level3, Sprint PCS and Williams.

Reporting to the CEO & President of Aerie Networks, Mr. Owyang guided redeployment of consumer wireless Internet (wireless ISP) service on the $1.4 Billion Ricochet nationwide network and was a stabilizing rudder while the company rotated through multiple COO’s.

As Founder and CEO of Summer Research LLC, Mr. Owyang filled interim CEO role for clients and enabled growth during the great recession. He closed angel funding and critical revenue partnership while leading a $15 million private equity placement for a financial services firm. He turned around a video advertising technology provider and negotiated strategic partnership with the world’s largest video ad network. He architected and implemented a business intelligence server cluster of 796 processing-cores managing a 100 million record consumer database.