Kevin Renner, Principal, VelocX

Meet Kevin Professionally

Kevin Renner is an accomplished marketing and brand strategist who has helped numerous health, software and technology companies build their valuations by improving their revenue, competitive strategies, and market positions around the world.

Kevin managed global marketing, brand strategy, and product management for two public companies during their most successful financial performance: FEI Co., an $800 million supplier of electron microscopes for nanoscale imaging and Planar Systems, a $225 million provider of high performance displays for industrial, radiological, and medical imaging. He also has led the branding and marketing management of two successful venture-financed startups, MedicaLogic Inc., and MyHealthBank.

Kevin received his MBA from Berkeley and attended the Executive Program in Business Market Strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Meet Kevin Personally

A former journalist (who helped found the Portland Oregon Business Journal), Kevin is also a nationally known author. Reflecting his propensity to look at the world differently, he took an unusual path in his search for how to be a better father: he asked women. As a father raising two pre-teen daughters, he spent a year interviewing 50 women from around the world to understand their life stories and how they were shaped by their fathers-for better or worse. His book “In Search of Fatherhood: A Mother Lode of Wisdom from the World of Daughterhood” was released in June 2011, to universally favorable reviews. Since its release, Kevin has been on a marketing rampage, appearing on CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR, WGN, FOX, CNN, and the Oprah Winfrey radio and television network affiliates across the U.S. and Canada.

As an 18-year-old drummer, Kevin faced the decision of whether to sign a two-year contract to tour the world with a warm up band, or accept a scholarship to attend the University of California. He chose the latter. Among his achievements were graduating with honors and taking surfing for credit. Twice.