Debby Meredith

460 Van Buren, Los Altos, CA 94022 ● 650.704.7166 ● debby@meredithcole.com


Summary

Senior executive with proven track record in general management and development of software products.  Extensive experience in high-growth and turnaround situations with venture capital experience.  Strong management, leadership and engineering skills with ability to communicate at all levels.

Experience

Consultant, 2003 - present

Mohr Davidow Ventures, Venture Partner, 2000 – 2003

America Online, Senior Vice President, 1999 – 2000

Netscape Communications, 1995 - 1999

Sr. Vice President and General Manager, Customer Satisfaction, 1998 – 1999

Selected to head new division focused on providing superior customer satisfaction, reporting directly to the Netscape CEO. Responsible for Netscape support services and revenue worldwide. Drove creation of new services offerings and web-based capabilities. Additionally, was a leader and spokesperson across the entire corporation for customer satisfaction. Served on Netscape's Executive Committee.

Sr. Vice President, Strategic Products and Technologies, 1998

Responsible for core technology products and components used within Product Development by the Client, Server, and Applications divisions. This included Java, JavaScript, and security and networking services. Changed Netscape’s Java strategy from one of extending and porting Sun’s Java in constant catch up mode to developing an open Java interface allowing any vendor’s Java Virtual Machine to be plugged in to the Netscape browser.

Vice President, Client Product Development, 1997 – 1998

Headed the development of the Netscape's award winning Communicator and Navigator product lines. The organization was over 300 people, including engineering, quality assurance, product marketing, user interface design, and documentation professionals. The browser product suite was released on multiple platforms, in multiple languages, and is one of the most popular software applications ever written.

Vice President, Client Engineering, 1995 – 1997

Responsible for the engineering of all Netscape end-user Internet products which included:

Additionally, spearheaded Netscape’s acquisition of DigitalStyle, a company with advanced dynamic text expertise that developed Netscape’s next generation layout engine and document object model. This effort, code named Gecko, became the core of the entirely re-written Netscape 6.0 and the open source mozilla.org efforts.

Collabra Software, Vice President Development, 1993 – 1995

Slate Corporation, Vice President Development, 1990 – 1993

Responsible for staffing and management of engineering, product management, quality assurance, and office personnel. Managed team in successfully conceptualizing, designing, developing, and marketing pen-based application software and tools for Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing, GO's PenPoint, and Apple Newton, including:

Metaphor Computer Systems, 1983 – 1990

Director of Engineering, 1988 – 1990

Responsible for staffing, budget, and management of thirty-five engineers.

Engineering Manager, 1986 – 1988

Managed group of engineers in the planning, design, implementation, testing, and enhancement of a windowing desktop environment and suite of end user tools for a high-resolution bitmap display workstation.

Engineering Project Leader, 1983 – 1985

Responsible for team management in the development of workstation and system software.

Logitech, Software Engineer, 1982 – 1983

Bell Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff, 1981 - 1982

Education

Stanford University, Masters, Computer Science

Palo Alto, California

Graduated with Honors

University of Michigan, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Mathematics

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Magna Cum Laude