Kyle York (entrepreneur)

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Kyle York (born November 26, 1982) is an Internet entrepreneur, startup advisor and angel investor^[1] and an executive at Dyn, currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer.^[2] Dyn was acquired by Oracle on November 21, 2016. York also sits on the boards of Datanyze, CloudApp and 3rd Generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG. where he is a co-founder. York is also an active angel investor and advisor in several fast growth Internet companies.

Background

York grew up in New Hampshire and attended high school in Manchester, NH where Dyn is headquartered. York has held various go-to-market (GTM) leadership roles in sales, business development, marketing and services throughout his career.^[3]^[4] York has spoken at Launch Festival, CIO Perspectives, The Next Web, Web Summit, Interop, SXSW, and been featured in WSJ Live,^[5] PBS Frontline,^[6] Washington Post, Entrepreneur,^[7] TechCrunch^[8] and more about scaling Internet companies, notably software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. York holds a BS in Marketing from Bentley University and lives in Bedford, NH, with wife and two sons.

Highlights

York helped lead the Oracle acquisition of Dyn on November 21, 2016 and was a key spokesperson for the announcement. The company plans to stay and grow in Manchester, New Hampshire
York helped lead Dyn through many Internet scale events over the years, including the unprecedented October 21, 2016 Dyn DDoS Attack, including coverage in The Wall Street Journal, NBC Nightly News and The New York Times
York helped grow Dyn to nearly $100 Million of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)^[9], which is a large milestone of Software-as-a-Service businesses
York helped Dyn fundraise $100 Million from leading Venture Capitalists including North Bridge Growth Equity and Pamplona Capital Management
York helped scale Dyn to nearly $30M ARR in 2012 and raise it's $38M Series A Round after 11 years of bootstrapping business growth
York has an active angel investment portfolio that includes fast growth SaaS startups: Fastly, Distil Networks, Dataloop & Catchpoint Systems^[10]

References

↑ Clark, Susan (January 26, 2014). "DYN's Kyle York lives life with honesty, passion and persistence". UnionLeader. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
↑ "Dyn Leadership Team".
↑ Lee Dumas, John. "Kyle York of Dyn". Entrepreneur on Fire.
↑ Biondi, Armando (September 26, 2015). "VentureBeat". The great unbundling of marketing is here. VentureBeat. Retrieved March 28, 2016.
↑ "Battling the Cyber Monday Attention Deficit". Wall Street Journal. November 24, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
↑ Koughan, Frank (February 9, 2016). "The Fantasy Sports Gamble". PBS. Frontline. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
↑ "Entrepreneur.com Author Page". Entrepreneur.com. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
↑ York, Kyle. "The Fragility Of Our Connected World". TechCrunch. TechCrunch.
↑ https://growthhackers.com/amas/live-sep-8-ama-with-kyle-york-chief-strategy-officer-at-dyn
↑ http://www.york.ie/portfolio.html

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