Doug Hurd

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Mr. Doug Hurd co-founded CLYPD and served as a Board Member and Executive Vice President of Business Development. He leads by example with extensive experience striking deals with customers and partners that help fuel the company's growth. Previously Doug was Director of Business Development at PayPal Mobile where he was responsible for executing strategic partnerships to accelerate PayPal's off-line mobile payment initiative by expanding the penetration of PayPal's mobile products across devices, platforms, and POS solutions. Before PayPal Doug was VP of Business Development at WHERE, Inc. which was acquired by PayPal in April 2011. Doug had the privilege of spearheading the early corporate development efforts that eventually led to the sale of the company. At WHERE, he was responsible for forging partnerships across the mobile ecosystem to embed WHERE in mobile devices and managing third-party content partnerships with a particular emphasis on monetization through subscription, search, advertising, and mobile commerce. This effort included strategic partnerships with Tier 1 wireless carriers and OEMs. These partnerships grew WHERE's top-line revenue from $2M to $28M in less than three years. Before joining WHERE, Doug worked for Tele Atlas-now a division of TomTom-where he played an instrumental role in the growth of the company's consumer wireless and Internet business. Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Vermont's School of Business Administration. He is also an Angel Investor.