Kevin Rowney

Partner at Hack VC

Kevin Rowney is a Partner at Hack VC. Kevin was previously the Director at Symantec from November 2007 to May 2012, where they were the Manager of the Solutions Marketing Team. Some of their key accomplishments include creating the role by lobbying for a reorganization resulting in the staffing of the team, and forging a rough consensus across multiple divisions of Symantec to align competing groups around message platforms such as Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Mobility, and Advanced Persistent Threat. Additionally, they have completed sales training for thousands of sales reps on sales plays related to these strategic IT trends, and has influenced over $20M of registered “Opportunities” within SFDC using these techniques. Kevin is also a two-time winner of the competitive “Battle of the $50k” business-plan debate competition, and has successfully negotiated to position the Strategic IT Trends as the foundation for global campaign plans worldwide at Symantec. Kevin has also been the Leader of Breach Response team, where they lobbied for the creation of the team, staffed it, and wrote the company playbook on response procedures. Kevin has influenced over $30M in registered “Opportunities” within SFDC via the Good Will induced by their offer of assistance, and has lead organizer of multiple high-profile “War Room” activities involving F500 companies and U.S. Federal Agencies. Kevin is also the author of highly successful sales playbooks related to technical assessment of risk designed to uncover evidence of breach.

Kevin Rowney's educational career includes a Masters Degree in Mathematics from UCLA and a B.S. in Mathematics and Liberal Arts from the University of Chicago.

They are on a team with Josh Stevens - Partner, Tom Chi - Partner. Kevin Rowney reports to Ed Roman, Managing Director.

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