Tom Kenney

As Chief Innovation Officer of Verve Mobile, Tom Kenney spends his time
and for the past 10 years has driven the mobile advertising platform’s innovation and growth. As president and chief innovation officer, Tom works with the expanding mobile community to create scalable mobile advertising solutions to bring to market.

A pioneer of the mobile location space, Tom was an early employee of a start-up wireless carrier GO Communications, a spin-off of MCI, as well as a venture capitalist with Blue Run Ventures (BRV), formerly Nokia Venture Partners. During his time at BRV, Tom was a contributing principal on many investments, including PayPal, eVoice, Lightningcast and MongoMusic, which were sold to eBay, AOL and Microsoft, respectively. He also served as director of corporate development at Nokia responsible for mergers and acquisitions at the height of the company’s growth.

Tom is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business and holds an MBA from the George Mason University School of Management. He is based in San Diego, CA.