Deborah Whitman Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

I lead The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Stanford's Graduate School of Business (GSB). We operate an array of programs, resources and learning experiences to support Stanford graduate students interested in entrepreneurship. We help craft experiential learning opportunities like the popular Start-up Garage course, and coordinate a summer internship program allowing MBA students to experience working at early-stage start-up companies. We run the Venture Studio -- a co-working space and dynamic program for grad student teams evaluating or working on new ventures. We foster opportunities for GSB students to interact with and learn from a close-knit Stanford entrepreneurship community, and the broader Silicon Valley community. We work closely with GSB faculty to create cases that highlight the challenges facing entrepreneurial companies, and coordinate research on search funds investing in entrepreneurs acquiring existing businesses.http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/stanford-gsb-experience/academic/entrepreneurship

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

MyDigitalTAT2 is a non-profit organization that educates kids and teens, parents, and those who support young people (e.g. teachers, counselors, principals) to navigate the internet and social media in ways that are healthy and help to make the internet a kinder place. MyDigitalTAT2 works directly with school districts to bring education to students in the classroom at multiple different points in their progression from 3rd grade through 12th. The also provide opportunities for parents, teachers, psychologists and counselors to learn how to talk with teens about internet, video game, and social media usage, and to educate them about the most current ways young people are engaging with online and digital media.

Photo Mambo makes it simple to share pictures with your closest friends and family so they can be enjoyed day after day. Most photo sharing leaves us with pictures stuffed into the digital equivalent of the shoe box, so pictures are rarely seen more than once. While that may be fine for pictures of your best friend's breakfast, some photos are so important that family and friends want to enjoy them again and again.That's where Photo Mambo comes in. It's an on-screen picture frame you send to loved ones already filled with photos. Photo Mambo transforms any iPad, Mac or PC into a digital picture frame that effortlessly updates itself. Shared pictures stay on display to be enjoyed day after day. And new photos are simply added to a loved ones' frame, with no need for tedious saving, downloading, or copying the images.Photo Mambo joined the ranks of startups that did not make it. Like many entrepreneurs, my co-founder and I learned a great deal, but we did not revolutionize how families share and enjoy their best photos. Onward.

Executive Director for a start-up non-profit organization developing a $20 million challenge to radically increase development of zero energy homes. The foundation developed a contest offering a multi-million prize for the team that built the first Energy Free Home--a zero energy house that cost no more than an conventional home and appealed to consumers.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Directed product management for Adobe's $300 million digital imaging and consumer software and services, including the industry-leading Photoshop software line. Led a team of 20 product managers that defined and launched a suite of new products and services to extend the product line. New products were designed to meet the needs of specific customer groups and included: Photoshop Lightroom, a new end-to-end digital darkroom for photographers; Photoshop Extended, a high-end digital imaging package for customers in video, scientific and medical professions; Premiere Elements, a market-leading consumer video software package; and Photoshop Services, a set of online services to enhance the Photoshop software line; .

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led product planning for the first version of the Media Center Edition of Windows. Managed a team of product managers to define this new product and work with the development team to bring it to reality. If you aren't familiar with it.... the Media Center Edition of Windows allows consumers to view photos, videos, and TV programs stored on their computer on their TV screens.

Led marketing and product management for this 100 person, venture-funded start-up firm that produced online marketing and web-traffic solutions for small businesses and consumer websites. Led company repositioning to focus on small business customers, developed a new brand identity and web site, and presented the firm's product vision to potential investors. LinkExchange was acquired by Microsoft.

Mountain View, California, Us

Joined Intuit as a product manager for the Quicken personal finance software product. Eventually became director of marketing for the Quicken product line. Launched several line extensions for the Quicken line, including the first applications that allowed for tracking investments and estimating taxes via Quicken, and the Quicken Financial Suite, which brought financial planning capabilities to Quicken customers.

Mclean, Va, Us

Consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, working with clients in consumer packaged goods, financial services, and energy sectors.

Mba

Bs, Biology