Kyle York

Kyle York (born November 26, 1982) is an Internet entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, cloud and Infrastructure-as-a-Service expert and sought-after global public speaker on cloud migration, internet security and hybrid cloud strategy. York is an executive at Dyn, currently serving as Chief Strategy Officer. Dyn was acquired by Oracle on November 21, 2016. York also sits on the boards of Datanyze, CloudApp and 3rd Generation family business, YORK Athletics MFG. where he is a co-founder. York is also an active angel investor and advisorin dozens of fast growth Internet companies. He has been part of eight successful exits as an investor and employee. Companies he has invested in and worked as a go-to-market (GTM) leader have been acquired by Cisco, Cognizant, New Relic, Oracle and Sophos.

York has held various GTM leadership roles in sales, business development, marketing and services throughout his career. York is a New Hampshire native and holds a BS in Marketing from Bentley University. He lives in Bedford, NH, with wife and two sons.

Dyn – Chief Strategy Officer

Dyn is a cloud-based Internet Performance Management (IPM) company that provides unrivaled visibility and control into cloud and public Internet resources.

• As the Chief Strategy Office of Dyn, York was a critical component of the Oracle acquisition of Dyn on November 21, 2016 and was the lead spokesperson for the announcement.
• York has played a leading role at Dyn through many Internet scale events over the years. York helped scale Dyn to nearly $30M ARR in 2012 and raise it's $38M Series A Round after 11 years of bootstrapping business growth He later was part of the negotiation for a $50 Million Series B from and Pamplona Capital Management in May 2016.

YORK Athletics Mfg. – Co-founder and Board Member

YORK Athletics Mfg. is a 3rd generation family owned sportswear brand from Boston, Massachusetts.

CloudApp – Board Member

CloudApp is a media-sharing and visual communication platform that provides the fastest way to capture, share, annotate, and search visual content.

Datanyze – Board Member

Datanyze is a leading technographics provider, helping B2B companies apply unique technology insights to identify and close their best accounts.

• York was originally recruited as an advisor for Datanyze and evolved role into a Board Member and investor.

Rock On Foundation – Board Member

Founded by NBA brothers Luke and Matt Bonner in early 2013, Rock On Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves to increase community artistic and athletic opportunities.

1brand 1brand – Partner and Co-Founder

1band 1brand is a music and brand alignment agency focused on assisting artists with the monetization and promotion of themselves and their work via unique brand partnerships and activations.

GYK Antler – Advisor

GYK Antler is a full-service, independent, marketing agency based in Manchester, NH, Boston & Springfield, MA.

• York has been featured in WSJ Live, PBS Frontline, Washington Post, TechCrunch, and more, discussing scaling Internet companies, notably software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. He has been a guest author to numerous publications including The Next Web and Entrepreneur.
• York has often served as a key spokesperson for Dyn, most notably during the Oct. 21st, 2016 DDoS attacks. His commentary was included in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunchand more. He also appeared on The Today Show to discuss IoT security as it related to the attack.

• Battling the Cyber Monday Attention Deficit, retrieved 2016-12-15 
• "The Fantasy Sports Gamble". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• York, Kyle. "The Fragility Of Our Connected World". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• York, Kyle (2016-03-22). "What needs to happen before IoT can change the world". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• York, Kyle. "Kyle York". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• Perlroth, Nicole (2016-10-21). "Hackers Used New Weapons to Disrupt Major Websites Across U.S.". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• FitzGerald, Drew (2016-10-21). "Attacks on Small Tech Firm Dyn Interfere With Internet Access". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• Etherington, Darrell; Conger, Kate. "Large DDoS attacks cause outages at Twitter, Spotify, and other sites". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• "How to protect yourself from 'Internet of things' cyberattacks". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 

• York has an active angel investment portfolio that includes fast growth SaaS startups: Fastly, Distil Networks, Dataloop & Catchpoint Systems. Additional investments include: Contactually, Datanyze, Bliss, Adored, Adzerk, AlignMeeting, Barricade, Clubhouse Software, Crystal, Germr, HappyCo, haystagg, Immediately, Jobble, LoyaltyLion and more.
• York has spoken at Launch Festival, CIO Perspectives, The Next Web, Web Summit, Interop, SXSW, and more. He has also been a guest speaker at many universities and technology conferences globally, such as Harvard University, Bentley University and Stetson University.

• http://www.york.ie/portfolio.html
• "Kyle York". angel.co. Retrieved 2016-12-15. 
• "bio". Kyle York - YORK.ie. Retrieved 2016-12-15.