Doug Stevenson

Serial adtech founder: Doug co‑founded Vibrant Media in 2000 and led it through rapid growth to a large, profitable contextual advertising business (reported ~ $100M+ revenue around 2010), earning regional recognition (Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Metro New York). globenewswire+1

Built privacy‑forward contextual technology: after Vibrant, he co‑founded Quintesse to apply NLP, lemmatization and curated ML to the global bidstream, positioning contextual targeting as a privacy‑safe alternative to cookie/audience targeting. prnewswire+1

Founder & CEO coach focused on teams and execution: in his current work he advises and coaches founders and executive teams on cohesion, trust, conflict, accountability and operational execution, drawing on frameworks from Matt Mochary and Patrick Lencioni. afresh

Advisor and early‑stage investor: active as an advisor and investor to Bay Area and U.S. startups across digital health, leadership & culture, behavior design, and fintech, supplementing his operator experience with board/advisory work. theorg+1

Engineering background informs product and technical judgment: holds a B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, giving him technical literacy he has applied to NLP/contextual products and platform architecture. afresh+1