Ian Small

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Company leader, technology exec, board member, advisor, mentor @ Squint
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
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About Ian Small

Ian Small is a Company leader, technology exec, board member, advisor, mentor at Squint. He possess expertise in start ups, product management, enterprise software, cloud computing, business development and 29 more skills. He is proficient in French. Colleagues describe him as "Ian is an inspirational CEO ,Ian has a unique combination of leadership, understanding of business , product and technology combined with amazing interpersonal relationship that enable him to take any company to outstanding results. During my work with Ian both as a peer and later as his direct report I have seen Ian drive a number of companies at different stages and different sizes to success, I have seen Ian build a strategy for a small startup , a mid size company and a Telco giant. I have seen Ian successfully manage truly global companies that included employees and managers from different countries and cultures such as Spanish , Israeli and Americans ( not a simple combination I must say … ) Ian is a leader that knows to look at the facts and data and together with his team build a strategy and execute on it. I would say that Ian is one the people that impacted my thinking and management style the most, I have learned a great deal from our work together , I enjoyed every time we had to think together or when Ian challenged my thinking. I would say that any company should want a CEO like Ian , I would definitely would want to work with Ian again, it’s a privilege to work with a person and pro like Ian.", "Ian's superb leadership was a breath of fresh air at Telefonica. Ian is one of those rare individuals who has the ability to develop, clearly communicate and live his strategic vision for his businesses while also being able to add value by getting into the detail with his teams where needed. He always gets the balance right between empowering and challenging his teams to achieve more than they thought possible while still providing the support that they need when they need it. He is culturally aware and hugely experienced internationally and it was an absolute pleasure to work with him. He welcomes ideas from all corners (including from lawyers!) and develops an internal culture that ensures the best ideas win. I worked with Ian across a wide spectrum of projects including M&A, investments, new product development, regulatory issues and major commercial deals and joint ventures. Ian's agile mind was comfortable on all of these topics and after working with him for a number of years I fully suspect he is a polymath. However, this intellectual and analytical excellence is combined with other traits that all the best leaders have, most notably that he is authentic, honest and cares deeply about the people that work for him and fights for them - which ultimately leads to success for the business. Ian would be a huge asset to any organisation.", and "I am lucky enough to have Ian as my mentor. I chose Ian because he cares, listens and above all else asks questions that allows me to draw the conclusions I need to make. He is open, trusting, authentic and even with a schedule that is as mad as his, always has time for me. Ian has the most amount of curiosity I have ever experienced in a person and uses it to really get to understand the person in front of him. Thank you!"

Ian Small's Current Company Details
Squint

Squint

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Company leader, technology exec, board member, advisor, mentor
Ian Small Work Experience Details
  • Squint
    Advisor
    Squint Jul 2024 - Present
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Advisor to Squint's founder/CEO. Squint provides a manufacturing intelligence platform for Fortune 500 enterprises, combining AR, AI and site-specific content to deliver and capture manufacturing expertise on the factory floor, upskilling operators on-demand where they work. Squint is a privately-held, early-stage startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures.
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  • Snapdocs
    Member, Board Of Directors
    Snapdocs Jan 2021 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Member of the Board of Directors at Snapdocs, a technology startup powering homeownership, beginning with perfecting the residential mortgage closing process for all stakeholders involved - from lender to title company to homeowner. Snapdocs is privately held, backed by Sequoia Capital, F-Prime Capital, Founders Fund, the YC Continuity fund and Tiger Global. I have worked with Snapdocs in an advisory capacity since July 2018.
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  • Lumentum
    Member, Board Of Directors
    Lumentum Dec 2018 - Present
    San Jose, California, Us
    Member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Compensation Committee of Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE), a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Appointed to the board following Lumentum's acquisition of Oclaro (NASDAQ:OCLR) as surviving Oclaro board member.
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  • Yinxiang Biji (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Member, Board Of Directors
    Yinxiang Biji (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. Aug 2020 - Aug 2023
    Member of the Board of Directors at Yinxiang Biji, Evernote's spinoff serving China and the Greater China markets. Yinxiang Biji is a privately held joint venture between Evernote and the Sequoia CBC Cross-border Digital Industry Fund, with follow-on funding from Shanghai Cultural Development Fund, Zhencheng Capital, Cowin Capital, and others.
  • Evernote
    Ceo
    Evernote Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
    Redwood City, California, Us
    Brought in to reinvigorate and find an exit for a long-standing venture-backed notetaking business originally funded by Sequoia Capital, Morgenthaler, Meritech Capital Partners, and a host of other investors. Revitalized employee morale with a renewed mission and sense of purpose and transformed company culture to enable a multi-year journey to rebuild the product and the company. Replatformed the app, unifying product UX and modernizing tech stack to unlock innovation velocity. Repackaged customer SKUs and leveraged product-led growth strategies to lift ASP and increase conversion rates substantially while preserving world-class subscription renewal rates. Stabilized financials, generated cash flow and built cash reserves while transitioning Evernote out of the niche notetaking segment into the larger productivity market, driving customer satisfaction and increasing community engagement. Evernote was acquired by Bending Spoons S.p.A. in January 2023.
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  • Loon
    Member, Advisory Board
    Loon Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
    Mountain View, California, Us
    Advisor to Loon, a graduate of Alphabet's X labs dedicated to deploying a network of stratospheric balloons designed to bring Internet connectivity to rural and remote communities worldwide. Alphabet announced its decision to wind down Loon in January 2020.
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  • Alpha
    Member, Supervisory Board
    Alpha Jan 2016 - Dec 2019
    Barcelona, ., Es
    Member of the supervisory board (MCA) for Alpha, Telefónica's long-term innovation / moonshot unit. While working for Telefónica, I established Alpha as a vehicle for the company to pursue radical new ideas, explore novel markets, and massively increase Telefónica's ambition for the impact of its R&D activities. Alpha was managed and run outside the perimeter of Telefónica's normal operating and human resource processes, recruiting world-class talent from around the world. I was the sole external member of the supervisory board, along with 5 members of Telefónica's executive committee and 1 Telefónica board member.
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  • Oclaro
    Member, Board Of Directors
    Oclaro Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Member of the Board of Directors at Oclaro (NASDAQ: OCLR), an industry leader in optical components, modules, and subsystems for optical transport and metro networks, enterprise networks, and data centers.
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  • Telefónica
    Global Chief Data Officer
    Telefónica Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
    Madrid, Es
    Global Chief Data Officer for Telefónica S.A. (NYSE:TEF), responsible for defining and designing the group's long-term internal and external data strategy and for implementing Telefónica's global data platform. Member of Telefónica Group's Executive Committee, reported directly to Telefónica Group Chairman & CEO. Responsible for corporate Business Intelligence and Big Data functions, as well as the global Advertising business. As Chief Data Officer, I was also responsible for internal innovation at Telefónica, including next-generation communications services, digital service product innovation, global R&D and moonshots, with teams located in Spain, Brasil, Israel, UK, US, Chile, Argentina and around the world. Left Telefónica to return to California for personal reasons.
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  • Telefónica
    Ceo, Communications Services And Product Innovation
    Telefónica Dec 2014 - Jun 2016
    Madrid, Es
    General Manager for all Telefónica (NYSE:TEF) next-generation communications services as well as digital service product innovation (insurance telematics, smart cities, IoT, personal data, and more), overall responsibility for Telefónica I+D (Telefónica's global R&D function) and Telefónica Alpha (moonshots unit). Worked closely with key technology partners including Google X and Mozilla, as well as Telefónica's traditional suppliers. Product/service portfolio includes offerings targeting B2C, B2B and B2B2C markets, delivered globally direct-to-market, through partnerships and through Telefónica's global operating businesses with 300M customers across 20+ countries in Europe and Latin America. Role encompassed end-to-end responsibility, from product development through sales, marketing and operating responsibilities.
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  • Telefónica
    Ceo, Communications Services
    Telefónica Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
    Madrid, Es
    General Manager for all next-generation communications products and services delivered by Telefónica's global product organization, including both B2C (eg. O2 UK Tu Go) and B2B (eg. OpenTok from TokBox) offerings. Go-to-market approaches spanned global direct-to-market as well as channel deployment through Telefónica SA's operating businesses with 300M customers across 20+ countries in Europe and Latin America.
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  • Tokbox
    Executive Chair
    Tokbox Apr 2014 - May 2016
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
    Executive Chair for TokBox, a wholly-owned independent operating subsidiary of Telefónica S.A. based in Silicon Valley. TokBox is the leading platform-as-a-service provider of embedded live video communications, based on WebRTC technology. TokBox was originally funded by Sequoia Capital and Bain Capital Ventures, acquired by Telefónica in late 2012, by Vonage in 2018 and by Ericsson in 2022. Continued with TokBox in an advisory capacity through July 2018.
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  • Tokbox
    Ceo
    Tokbox May 2009 - Apr 2014
    Holmdel, New Jersey, Us
    Chief Executive Officer at Sequoia Capital startup delivering OpenTok, a cloud-based live video platform that lets enterprises and developers embed live face-to-face video directly into their web and mobile applications. OpenTok combines powerful APIs, SDKs for popular mobile platforms, value-added cloud services and global infrastructure to make it easy to deploy and operate enterprise-grade commercial applications with WebRTC video. OpenTok scales from person-to-person conversations up to large group and broadcast events, and is used by startups like Double Robotics, leading brands like Major League Baseball, and enterprises like Bridgestone. TokBox was funded by Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and DAG Ventures, before being acquired by Telefónica Digital in October 2012.
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  • Mark Logic Corporation
    Senior Vice President And General Manager, Markmail
    Mark Logic Corporation Jul 2007 - Oct 2008
    Burlington, Massachusetts, Us
    Responsible for all aspects of MarkMail, Mark Logic's public mailing list archive at http://markmail.org. Included strategic direction, business development, implementation and operations. Launched site, built continuously increasing traffic, created high-momentum public mail archive site.
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  • Mark Logic Corporation
    Senior Vice President, Products
    Mark Logic Corporation Sep 2002 - Jan 2008
    Burlington, Massachusetts, Us
    Responsible for product strategy, product definition and all R&D. Lead technology executive in sales cycle. Built company from first customer dollar through to more than $20M in annual revenues. Introduced by Sequoia Capital, first non-founder hired into the company. Closed full Series A, raised Series B funding. Mark Logic was formerly known as Cerisent Corporation.
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  • Marchfirst
    Chief Strategist
    Marchfirst Mar 2000 - Dec 2000
    Executive closer for large deals in both North American and European markets. Drove alignment of services offerings post-merger. Implemented Asian market entrance through partnerships and joint ventures.
  • Usweb/Cks
    Chief Strategist And Knowledge Officer
    Usweb/Cks Dec 1998 - Mar 2000
    Set corporate strategy, planned and ran pre-merger integration, led knowledge management and methodology development, oversaw corporate marketing and communications functions. Leading executive closer in largest interdisciplinary deals. Incubated strategy consulting capability. USWeb/CKS merged with Whitman-Hart to become marchFIRST.
  • Usweb/Cks
    Chief Technology Officer
    Usweb/Cks Dec 1995 - Dec 1998
    Built CKS Group's technology practice from 2 to 200+ people. Led development of integrated service offerings. Technology champion in sales cycle for numerous large deals. CKS merged with USWeb to become USWeb/CKS, the fastest growing and largest internet professional services company in the world.
  • Apple Computer, Inc.
    Engineering Manager
    Apple Computer, Inc. Sep 1993 - Dec 1995
    Cupertino, California, Us
    Shipped Apple's breakthrough virtual reality platform, QuickTime VR, on both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
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  • Apple Computer, Inc.
    Research Scientist / Senior Engineer
    Apple Computer, Inc. Feb 1989 - Sep 1993
    Cupertino, California, Us
    Led and performed research in user interface development, new HI practices, new product development and prototyping technologies. Contributed to the initial release of QuickTime.
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Ian Small Skills

Start Ups Product Management Enterprise Software Cloud Computing Business Development Mobile Devices Business Strategy Big Data Strategy E Commerce User Experience Go To Market Strategy Strategic Partnerships Saas Leadership Executive Management Platforms Agile Methodologies User Interface Design Fundraising Distributed Systems Product Development Integration Engineering Management Javascript Integrated Marketing Scalability Apis Platform Software Paas Web Video Hadoop Visioneering Video Conferencing

Ian Small Education Details

  • University Of Toronto
    University Of Toronto
    Computer Science
  • University Of Toronto
    University Of Toronto
    Engineering Science (Computer Science)
  • Upper Canada College
    Upper Canada College

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