Primary Job Title Co-Founder and CPO Primary Organization Skillprint
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Davin is an entrepreneur and product and growth executive that has founded or joined, and successfully exited, a wide range of Internet, social, and mobile start-ups and global public companies. Davin is currently a Co-Founder and CPO of Skillprint, which identifies your strengths by observing the way you play mobile games. Skillprint then shares
those insights with you in an intuitive, fun and engaging interface with the pure goal of empowering you to get ahead. Discover what you are great at, uncover what makes you unique, learn and improve a new skill - all while playing mobile games.
Previously Davin was Co-Founder and CEO of Pimes, a mission-driven, for-profit, online lender to small businesses in developing markets. Pimes is focused on accelerating the success of profitable small businesses led by motivated, capable and ethical entrepreneurs in select developing markets by providing access to innovative and comprehensive debt financing. Starting in Colombia, we offer a hand up to growing companies who need capital to maximize their impact, create employment and open pathways for upward mobility.
Prior to Pimes, Davin founded and successfully sold one of the early social and mobile gaming companies, Mesmo with over 75 million users worldwide and top 10 applications on iOS, Android and Facebook. Davin led the vision, strategy, culture, user acquisition and engagement, product development, fundraising from top tier investors, recruiting and managing of a 50+ person team, multiple pivots, the sale and wildly successful post-merger integration, tripling the earnout target.
Earlier in his career, he spent time as an investment banker at Montgomery Securities leading equity and debt financings and mergers and acquisitions for early Internet and growth companies; he was a key part of the initial international team at Intraware, a B2B Internet pioneer that achieved an IPO and $2 billion market cap; he was the fifth employee of E-Quill, an early SaaS collaboration company that sold to Microsoft; and he drove a turnaround at a global public networking equipment company, 3Com where he was integral in the formation of one of the largest joint ventures in China with Huaweii.
Davin also serves as Chairman of Mama Hope, a nonprofit that trains impact entrepreneurs from around the world and partners them with visionary leaders in developing countries to lift their communities out of poverty. Together, they fund and build community-identified sustainable projects using local resources.
