Kevin Dillon ^{Top-Executive}

Experienced Operating Executive & Investor in innovative technology companies from early stage to late stage but with specific focus on mid stage companies.

Specialties: Enterprise and Consumer Software, Communications Technology and Mobile Internet.

Kevin has 30 years’ operating experience in the technology sector, including a total of 13 in Paris, London and Dublin as an executive in the software industry and five years in Silicon Valley. Kevin served as VP, Microsoft EMEA and helped grow the regional business from $500 million in 1991 to $9.5 billion in 2004.

At Microsoft, Kevin was a member of Microsoft EMEAs’ senior management team responsible for various roles in Finance, Operations, and Sales & Marketing including establishing the European Operations Centre in Dublin. He developed a substantial network of European and U.S. channel partners, outsourcing partners and service providers to technology companies. He supported and was jointly responsible for the formation of many new subsidiaries, functions and lines of business. This included working with local management in establishing financial, operational and customer functions in more than 20 subsidiaries. He was also responsible for building the operational infrastructure for the successful launch of Xbox as a new product and line of business within Europe.

From 1985 through 1991, Kevin was an international tax advisor at Price Waterhouse in Europe, the U.S. and South Africa. In that capacity, he helped structure international growth, acquisitions and income repatriation planning for many leading technology companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to 1985, Kevin practiced law in South Africa, including serving as a Legal Officer in the South African Navy.