Randy Haykin is an entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist located in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] With a rich background in sales and marketing in the high tech industry, including contributing to notable companies such as Yahoo!, Viacom, Paramount, BBN, IBM and Apple, Haykin is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Outlook Ventures,[2] 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,[3] 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.[4]
In addition, Haykin is a member of the professional faculty at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business[5] and visiting faculty of the University of Cambridge Judge School of Business.
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Haykin served as the founding Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Yahoo!,[6] 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,[7] 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.,[8] Digital Chocolate, Embee Corp, LesConcierges,[9] and CrowdOptic.[10]
Haykin is the Founder of The Intersection Event,[11] 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:
Haykin is a graduate of Brown University, 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.[12]
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, and serves on the Boards of non-profits such as Opportunity International, and Universal Giving.