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DOUG KENNEDY
Vice President of Business Development
Doug Kennedy’s multi-industry background provides the foundation that ignites the creative spark behind each of Reverb’s sales and marketing programs. Utilizing his many years of knowledge and expertise in the technology and videogame space, Doug brings with him solid industry relationships that he utilizes to deliver form-fitted client programs.
A born salesman, Doug has the experience and knowledge to deliver a product to retail including branding, forecasting, advertising and managing the life cycle of a product. While at Reverb, Doug has overseen the retail launch of RedOctane’s Ignition Dance Pad and In the Groove videogame for PlayStation2, the industry introduction of the Phantom Game Service, and many other client products.
Prior to Reverb, Doug worked at GMR Marketing as the Director of Business Development, managing new marketing opportunities for the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox. He brought a wealth of gaming experience to Xbox and GMR having worked at Nvidia Corporation as a Senior Marketing Manager supporting several key graphic chipset launches designed into the Xbox console. Working at Nvidia provided Doug with the opportunity to work on consumer product programs for NVIDIA’s TNT2 and GeForce256.
While attending Arizona State University, Doug spent 4 years working for the Phoenix Suns professional basketball team, and later joined the Sony Corporation as a tour manager in their musical division where he toured with musical groups Pearl Jam, Sublime, Blink 182, The Vans Warped tour and many others.
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