Kevin Carmony
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Kevin Carmony (born 1959) is the President and CEO of the Linspire corporation.
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[edit] Career
[edit] Linspire
Kevin Carmony is the President and CEO of the Linspire corporation (formerly Lindows), a technology company founded by Michael Robertson, ex-CEO and founder of MP3.com. Carmony met Robertson while serving as the President of TrueVerse Management, an artist management firm founded by Carmony in August of 1998. After being contracted by MP3.com to promote the Club.MP3.com Summer 2000 Tour, Carmony was asked to come work full time at MP3.com as a Product Director. Carmony left MP3.com in June of 2001 to become the first employee and President of Linspire, and later CEO.
[edit] MP3tunes
Carmony served as the project lead for MP3tunes, an Internet-based digital music store which was started by Linspire in 2004 and then spun off as its own company in March of 2005.
[edit] Sadie's Portraits
Additionally, Carmony serves as the Chairman of the Board for Sadie's Portraits, a chain of photography studios located in malls throughout the U.S. Carmony co-founded Sadie's in January of 2001 after he and his partners sold I.N.V.U. Portraits, a franchised chain of photography studios located in about 60 cities in the U.S. which Carmony co-founded in 1995.
[edit] NewQuest and Franklin
Carmony has a successful entrepreneurial past, including founder and President of NewQuest Technologies, Inc. NewQuest introduced one of the very first Microsoft Windows products on the market--the award-winning personal information manager Ascend. Ascend received many notable awards, including Byte Magazine’s Hottest Product Award for 1992, Byte’s nomination for Product of the Year in 1992, and Computer Reseller News' Software Star Search Award in 1991.
Carmony sold his majority position in NewQuest in 1992 to Franklin-Covey, a NYSE-traded firm specializing in personal productivity training and products, subsequently serving as a Vice President for Franklin Covey until his resignation in May of 1993.
[edit] SIS
Prior to forming NewQuest, Carmony served as founder and President of Streamlined Information Systems, Inc. (SIS), from 1983 to 1989 when he sold it to Rentrak, Inc. SIS specialized in point-of-sale automation systems for retail operations, such as record stores, video rental stores, jewelry stores, etc. During Carmony's tenure, SIS captured 25% of the automation market share for video rental stores with thousands of system installations world wide. This software is still being used today by thousands of video rental operations.
[edit] Education and other pursuits
- Carmony graduated in 1983 as that year’s Outstanding Business Graduate from the School of Management at Weber State University.
- Carmony is a published author and has co-owned a clothing manufacturing firm.
- Carmony serves on the board of directors of the Awake Community, a non-profit organization involved in various educational programs, particularly for youth.
- Carmony self-identifies as a libertarian.
- Carmony resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California (just outside of San Diego, California).
[edit] External links
- Linspire Letter - Carmony authors of the majority of these blogs
- kevincarmony.com - Carmony's personal home page
