In 1995 he developed a series of very successful community-based products on AOL as a contract employee of ABC Online, and ever since has been focused on the business of connecting people with the things they care about.
Mike is known for an unbending commitment to the end-users of his products and is driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and a creative muse that won’t let him sleep.
This passion has resulted in many important accomplishments in his career. Still he finds time to pursue varied interests outside of the day-to-day which often begs the question, "How does he do it?"
And that is the question that drives him hardest.
Since April 2007 Mike Sommers has been on a mission to create the world's most remarkable social media platform as SVP of Products for KickApps.
From 2000 - 2007 Mike held leadership roles in various Product groups at AOL, most recently as VP of Product Development for AOL Search, which reached over 24% of the U.S. online population each month (41 million uniques) and generated more than half of the profits for AOL's Audience Business. While at AOL, Mike also worked extensively in the fields of Video Search, Personalization and Local.
From 1998 - 2000 Mike was Director of Technology at Blue Marble, AGC. In that role he was responsible for building from scratch an in-house team of designers, software engineers and front-end coders to handle the flood of work coming in from clients like Medscape, Cadillac, General Motors, Capital One, Continental Airlines and about a dozen Proctor and Gamble brands.
From 1995 - 1998 Mike worked in a variety of Product roles for ABC Online, Prodigy, Hearst New Media and Channell Communications.
Mike can be contacted at mike@sinfin.com.
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