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Ken Rhie |
President
Z60 Advisory
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Ken Rhie is an active management participant for start-up companies in Silicon Valley and Asia and is a trusted consultant for large Asian clients including LG, POSCO, and ETRI.
Ken is also a featured speaker for various venues at universities and conferences on topics such as "Ten Most Common Mistakes of a Startup", "Silicon Valley Marketing Checklist", and "Writing a Business Plan for Successful Funding."
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 President of Z60 Advisory |
| Founding CEO of ThinkFree |
| Founding CEO of NetPhonic Communications |
| Business Unit Manager at Voysys (Fremont, CA) |
| Director of Marketing at Symantec (Cupertino, CA) |
| Business Unit Manager at Borland / Ashton-Tate (Scotts Valley, CA) |
| Management Consultant at Deloitte & Touche (New York, NY) |
 Harvard University, MBA |
| Northwestern University, BA, Economics |
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Ken brings hands-on experience in general management, marketing, and product development. His industry experience ranges from Internet, wireless, database, desktop software, semiconductor, computer telephony, and SaaS. He is Currently helping Silicon Valley start-ups with his combined experiences in marketing, management and entrepreneurial challenges.
Prior to founding Z60 Ventures, Ken founded ThinkFree Corp, a Silicon Valley-based software publisher and online service provider, and worked with strategic partners to offer ThinkFree Office application services.
At ThinkFree, he created a new vision for next generation software access in the cloud, and led publicity efforts to win leadership positioning in various publications and broadcasting stations such as Business 2.0, Upside, PC Magazine, InfoWorld, CBS Marketwatch, ABC, PBS, etc. ThinkFree was nominated as a finalist for PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award at COMDEX 2000.
Prior to founding ThinkFree, he had built an Internet startup (NetPhonic Communications), which was acquired by General Magic.
NetPhonic's Web-On-Call Voice Browser won seven prestigious industry awards including Best Product of Year (Mobile Computing Magazine), 1997 Product of Year (Computer Telephony Magazine) and InfoVision97 award (International Engineering Consortium).
Before founding NetPhonic Communications, Ken was a Business Unit Manager with Fremont, Calif.-based Voysys Corporation where he managed both engineering and marketing teams. He managed OEM products for ATT ClassicMail and Nortel StarTalk voice messaging systems. Before that, he was Director of Product Marketing at Software Publishing Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif., where he managed product management and marketing activities for Harvard Graphics. Prior to that, he served as Director of Product Marketing at Symantec Corp. in Cupertino, Calif., where he directed product management and marketing programs. He spent five years with Borland/Ashton-Tate where he was a Group Product Manager directing dBase product management & marketing and later became Business Unit Manager.
Ken earned a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and an MBA from Harvard University.
 
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Ken Rhie's speech at UC Berkeley. 
Business 2.0