Avery Kadison
Education
Stanford University
BS, Computer Science 1991-09-01 - 1995-06-01
Wichita Southeast High School
Diploma, 1991 1988-01-01 - 1991-01-01
Rounds Montessori
, 1979-01-01 - 1982-01-01Work Experience
MDSV Capital
Current
MDSV Capital
Accountero (SaaSDirect)
Current
Accountero (SaaSDirect)
Kadison Energy Holdings, LLC
Current
Kadison Energy Holdings, LLC
Dosh
2018-06-01 - 2021-04-01
Dosh
2013-11-01 - 2018-04-01
LightMiner Systems, Inc
2013-05-01 - 2013-11-01
LightMiner Systems, Inc
PayPal
2007-12-01 - 2013-05-01
PayPal
eHealth, Inc.
2006-09-01 - 2007-12-01
eHealth, Inc.
PayPal
2002-11-01 - 2006-09-01
PayPal
Openwave Systems
2001-03-01 - 2002-11-01
Openwave Systems
Skills
Summary
Over 20 years of financial services experience including: • Leading product management teams in core payments processing and delivering fintech solutions • Designing innovative controls for protecting payment systems from fraud and other financial risks • Architecting and building trading/risk management platforms for both exotic derivatives and structured securities • Developing transaction flows in advertising, digital goods, and marketplace-style interactions • Evaluating expansion opportunities for financial products like insurance and banking My work has spanned every phase of delivery: • Managing teams of product managers and risk strategists, and working with user research • Performing data analysis and building machine-learning models for bottom and top-line activities • Developing strategies for innovative new products • Business modeling • Working with third-party vendors and other partners, including pricing/contract negotiation • Coding/delivering front-end and back-end product features in multiple development environments (PHP, Haskell, Smalltalk, Python, C/C++) With over 3 decades of experience as an angel investor during which I have invested in or advised over 2 dozen startups, I am now a Venture Partner at MDSV Capital, an early-stage Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund. Specialties: Product Management, Product Vision, Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, Business Strategy, Innovation, Finance/Risk Management, Software Development, People Management, Consumer Internet Services, Derivatives & Asset-Backed Securities Modeling and Structuring, Big Data, Programming (SQL, Hive, Presto, Haskell (currently); C/C++, PHP, Python, Smalltalk (historically))
