James Kessinger

Group VP, Marketing | Driving Demand, Revenue Growth, & CX

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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19y
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Dec 2019
époque évolution is responsibly produced functional fashion for workout to work to night out. we believe in living your life, not shopping or packing for it. we believe that style doesn’t need to be precious, or dry-clean only, or exclusive, or uncomfortable, or destructive. we believe in quality over quantity. we believe that we can look good and feel good and do good. and we believe in one wardrobe doing it all. follow us @epoqueevolution
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Oct 2018
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Aug 2018
Voray is the go-to place to join, build, or partner with a community. Since 2016, Voray has created meaningful connections for top professionals around the world, leveraging technology to accelerate professional growth. With a history of high-quality in-person events, Voray has embraced our new hybrid world and evolved into a SaaS product with community at its core. Communities on our platform now have the opportunity to ask questions, share resources, and network via our online platform and virtual events, all while having the ability to further build these connections at our in-person events. Some of our communities include: > Chief of Staff Collective > Talent Acquisition Collective > DTC Marketing Collective > Executive Assistant Collective > Corporate Communications Collective > Sales Enablement Collective If you’re interested in building your own community, housing your community on the Voray platform, or partnering with a community, reach out to the team at zach@voray.com
Board of Advisors & Investor
Jun 2017
Hushly’s is a buyer experience and conversion platform for b2b marketers. Hushly is the only b2b marketing platform in the market today that offers website personalization, content personalization, as well as conversion optimization in a single platform for content marketers, demand generation marketers and account-based marketers. With Hushly you can deliver personalization on any website or web page, personalize content offers for any visitors while increasing conversions. Along with that you can dynamically deliver unique account focused page and content experiences to your in-market accounts and target account lists. Orchestrate ABX campaigns through email and create destinations for all your multi-channel, multi-touch campaigns.
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Apr 2007
CellSpin was founded in 2006 as a mobile blogging company, The worldwide launch on January 30,2008 at the DEMO Conference. In December 2012 the USPTO awarded CellSpin a key patent we had filed in 2007. The past 3 years, the company has been focused on increasing our patent portfolio. As of January 2016 we now have 12 Patents awarded covering 3 different technologies (with additional patents pending). CellSpin Intellectual Property - Wearable and Mobile Technology Patents Granted - 1. US9226138 2. US8892752 3. US8904030 4. US8700790 5. US8738794 6. US8392591 7. US8762560 8. US8756336 9. US8862757 10. US8898260 11. US8798539 12. US9258690 CellSpin developed a suite of social networking applications for online media - Mobile Blogging App, Social Media Hub, Social Ad Platform. Mobile Blogging: Smartphone applications that enable the instant sharing and publishing of all types of content (audio, video, photo, text) to any website or social media platform from any device – including native custom apps for all smartphones worldwide. Allows users to capture images, audio, video and text as well as publish them simultaneously on blogs, social networking sites, photo sharing and auction sites. The Social Media Hub gives our customers the ability to embed a seamless social networking experience into their own websites - enabling them to make their website the center of their social graph and successfully monetize their social network. The Social Ad Platform seamlessly integrates real-time social media feeds inside any display ad unit. It is HTML-based, so you can have a custom interactive ad with full multimedia capability within the display ad – giving advertisers the ability to capture Facebook fans, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers and launch Skype calls.
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2019
Investor
Dec 2019
époque évolution is responsibly produced functional fashion for workout to work to night out. we believe in living your life, not shopping or packing for it. we believe that style doesn’t need to be precious, or dry-clean only, or exclusive, or uncomfortable, or destructive. we believe in quality over quantity. we believe that we can look good and feel good and do good. and we believe in one wardrobe doing it all. follow us @epoqueevolution
2018
Board of Advisors & Investor
Oct 2018
xxx
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2018
xxx
Investor
Aug 2018
Voray is the go-to place to join, build, or partner with a community. Since 2016, Voray has created meaningful connections for top professionals around the world, leveraging technology to accelerate professional growth. With a history of high-quality in-person events, Voray has embraced our new hybrid world and evolved into a SaaS product with community at its core. Communities on our platform now have the opportunity to ask questions, share resources, and network via our online platform and virtual events, all while having the ability to further build these connections at our in-person events. Some of our communities include: > Chief of Staff Collective > Talent Acquisition Collective > DTC Marketing Collective > Executive Assistant Collective > Corporate Communications Collective > Sales Enablement Collective If you’re interested in building your own community, housing your community on the Voray platform, or partnering with a community, reach out to the team at zach@voray.com
2017
Board of Advisors & Investor
Jun 2017
Hushly’s is a buyer experience and conversion platform for b2b marketers. Hushly is the only b2b marketing platform in the market today that offers website personalization, content personalization, as well as conversion optimization in a single platform for content marketers, demand generation marketers and account-based marketers. With Hushly you can deliver personalization on any website or web page, personalize content offers for any visitors while increasing conversions. Along with that you can dynamically deliver unique account focused page and content experiences to your in-market accounts and target account lists. Orchestrate ABX campaigns through email and create destinations for all your multi-channel, multi-touch campaigns.
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2007–2019 · 6 investments
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