Dan Kennedy

Background

About Dan Kennedy

Kennedy has built a career out of turning big ideas into successful companies. Over the past 30 years, Kennedy has been the entrepreneurial vision and driving-force behind many innovative companies. He has raised roughly $350 million dollars in combined funding while creating billions of dollars of market value. At a very young age, he co-founded SalesLogix, one of the most widely used sales-force automation software offerings on the market which went public in 1996. Kennedy then when on to found Vcommerce in 1997, creating the first end-to-end ecommerce platform. Kennedy's vision and execution led its platform development, market positioning and strategy. In 2001 he formed a business incubator, C9. His guidance helped companies in a wide range of industries take root and grow into multi-million dollar enterprises. In mid-2003, Kennedy repurchased Vcommerce and served as CEO, President and CTO. He refocused the company on an annuity-based model; brought on a solid management team; and delivered a comprehensive, web-based solution for capturing, sourcing and managing orders across complex, multi-channel environments. Vcommerce provided complete services to companies such as Sony.com, Target.com, Overstock, and many others representing billions in transactions annually. Vcommerce was sold to Google in 2013 for nine-figures. Additionally, Kennedy founded several other private and public companies in sectors that include automotive, fintech, communications and several other technology sectors. These companies include Echo Automotive, BHPH Capital, Tactical Electrons and RouteCloud, a joint venture with TASER. Kennedy is also the Managing Director of SparkTarget & MindNest, Scottsdale based product & business incubators. Kennedy studied advanced mathematics, computer engineering and music theory at Syracuse University before doing what every great entrepreneur does… dropping out to build their vision.