Randy Haykin
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Randy Haykin is an entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
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, angel investor
Angel investor
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 and venture capitalist located in the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco Bay Area
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. With a rich background in sales and marketing in the high tech industry, including contributing to notable companies such as Yahoo!, Viacom
Viacom
Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...

, Paramount, BBN
BBN
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, IBM
IBM
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 and Apple
Apple
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, Haykin is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Outlook Ventures, a firm that actively invests in growth-stage industry-transforming technology companies on the West Coast. Haykin is also the Founder of The Gratitude Network and The Intersection Event, a day-long event on innovation and its effect on the major social issues of our time. Haykin is also the author of the book, Fuel.

In addition, Haykin is a member of the professional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business
Haas School of Business
The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as the Haas School of Business or simply Haas, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley....

 and visiting faculty of the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business.

Work History

Haykin served as the founding Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

, where he was responsible for building the company's marketing team, establishing agency relationships and generating initial business model and advertising sales for Yahoo. Haykin also served as Vice President of Marketing at NetChannel, which was successfully acquired by America Online in 1998. He has also served as part of the core team that launched America Online's Greenhouse, a successful venture incubator.

In his five years at Apple Computer
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

, Haykin was responsible for creating and launching the Apple Multimedia Program for developers as well as a line of retail multimedia and CD-ROM products. He was also responsible for the division's strategic relations, including the creation of the "New Media Center" program for higher education, with ten other manufacturers and publishers. As the Director of Operations and Business Development at Viacom/Paramount's West Coast operations (the "Media Kitchen"), Haykin was in charge of online services and interactive team-building, corporate strategy and marketing.

Haykin serves as Advisor and Board Member at Reply Inc., Digital Chocolate
Digital Chocolate
Digital Chocolate is a video game developer headquartered in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins, the entrepreneur and founder of the video game publishing giant Electronic Arts and founder of The 3DO Company. The company focuses on developing games for mobile phones, iOS,...

, Embee Corp, LesConcierges, and CrowdOptic.

The Intersection Event

Haykin is the Founder of The Intersection Event, a unique one-day event on innovation and its effect on the major social issues of our time. The first event will be held on January 14, 2012, at the Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California.

The first event in 2012 featured such speakers as:
  • Greg Brandeau, CTO of The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company
    The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

  • Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO
    IDEO
    IDEO is an international design and innovation consultancy founded in Palo Alto, California, United States with other locations in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich, Shanghai, and Singapore, as well as Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo. The company helps design products, services,...

  • Steve Case
    Steve Case
    Stephen McConnell "Steve" Case is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online . Since his retirement as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has gone on to build a variety of new businesses through his investment...

    , Founder of AOL, Revolution and The Case Foundation
  • Dr. Edwin Earl Catmull, President of Pixar Animation Studios
  • John Hagel III
    John Hagel III
    John Hagel or John Hagel III is an author and former consultant who specializes in the intersection of business strategy and information technology. In 2007, Hagel, along with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, founded the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation...

    , Director of Deloitte Center for the Edge
  • Linda Hill, Professor at Harvard Business School
  • Frans Johansson, Author of The Medici Effect
  • Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Google
    Google
    Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

  • Dr. Chris Pitt, Senior Vice President of World Vision International
    World Vision International
    World Vision International, founded in the USA in 1977, is an evangelical relief and development umbrella organization whose stated goal is "to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good...

  • Guru Singh, Teacher, Minister and Third-Generation Yogi

Education

Haykin is a graduate of Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Behavior and Management, as well as the prestigious Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where he obtained his Masters in Business Administration.

Philanthropy

Randy Haykin is the Founder of The Gratitude Network, a venture approach to funding projects in the United States and third-world countries that will make a global impact on social issues of present day.

Haykin is a dedicated philanthropist, and regularly volunteers his time as a Strategic Advisor to the American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society
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, and serves on the Boards of non-profits such as Opportunity International
Opportunity International
Opportunity International is an organization that provides small business loans, savings, insurance and training to more than two million people working their way out of poverty in the developing world...

, and Universal Giving.
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