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| Kevin
Carmony is currently the founder and CEO of
Life's DNA, a free
social networking service. Life's DNA is one of the top
development companies for iPhone applications, with several of their
apps in the Top 100 of Apple's iPhone App STore, including
Dating DNA and
CLIPish. Kevin is also currently working in his
Estates Studio on recording the next album of the amazingly talented
Jayson Haws. From 2001 to 2007, Kevin served as the President, and later as CEO, of Linspire, Inc. (formerly Lindows), "The world's easiest desktop Linux" operating system. As CEO for Linspire, Kevin was named by eWeek magazine as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Information Technology. Kevin co-founded Sadie's, a successful chain of photography studios, 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 Kevin co-founded in 1995.) Kevin has a successful entrepreneurial past, including founder and President of NewQuest Technologies, Inc. NewQuest introduced one of the very first Microsoft Windows 3.0 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. Kevin 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. Prior to forming NewQuest, Kevin 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 Kevin's tenure, SIS captured 25% of the automation market share for video rental stores with thousands of system installations world wide. Kevin is also a published author and has co-owned a clothing manufacturing firm. He graduated in 1983 as that year’s Outstanding Business Graduate from the School of Management at Weber State University.
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