Gene D'Ovidio
Founder and CEO

A strategic marketing executive with 20+ years’ experience in strategic, business and marketing planning, Mr. D’Ovidio develops strategy, directs research, designs solutions, drives implementation, and ensures delivery of client results. Fortune 500 experience includes strategy and growth-planning projects at Citigroup, AT&T, Verizon Communications, SBC Communications, Kmart, Johnson & Johnson, Walt Disney, First Union Corporation, American Express, Sprint, Quest, Apple Computer and Williams-Sonoma. Clients have also included private equity investors such as Chase Capital Partners, Stonington Partners, The Charterhouse Group, National Bank of Kuwait, and Dubin Clark & Company.

Prior to founding Intellectual Capital Partners, Gene was a Principal with Booz Allen & Hamilton’s Commercial Business in New York, and a Managing Partner with Marketing Corporation of America, where he led their Information Industry Practice and managed their Los Angeles office. In 1999, Mr. D’Ovidio became a General Partner of Fort Point Venture Capital, a boutique VC fund focused on early-stage IT ventures.

Gene has also held interim management, advisory and board positions with both early and late stage start-ups in technology businesses. Some of his more recent positions include MessageMedia (MESG: NASDAQ), acquired by DoubleClick (Director of Business Development), OthNet, peer-to-peer Internet technologies (Chief Strategy Officer), AllBusiness.com, acquired by NBCi (Advisory Board), BriefServe, online litigation support, sold to West Group (VP Business Development), ZeroTree Technologies (ZTRE: NASDAQ), streaming services and technology, sold to SMC (Board of Directors), and ScentAir Technologies (Advisory Board).

Mr. D'Ovidio earned an MBA in Marketing from Boston University and holds a B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University.

Mr. D’Ovidio provides pro bono support to the visual and performing arts and youth organizations. He is a long time member of the Board of Trustees Marketing Committee for the SFMOMA. He has provided marketing advice and counsel to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Outward Bound, UNICEF and the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation.