Doug Benson
Retired at Doug Benson
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolDoug Benson is a seasoned software technology executive and inventor with over a decade of leadership driving visual, mobile, web and video products from startup prototypes to enterprise-scale platforms. He led product and engineering teams at Adobe and Macromedia during pivotal years for web multimedia, co-founded startups in mobile gaming and interactive storytelling, and later steered product strategy for high-growth SaaS offerings at GuideSpark and Coupa. His work blends hands-on product definition with board-level strategy, earned multiple patents, and repeatedly delivered customer-facing experiences with strong visual and UX emphasis. Comfortable in teams of ten or thousands, he has a track record of modernizing codebases, scaling global engineering, and shifting organizations to Agile delivery. Now based in Denver and recently retired, he remains interested in mentoring and creative board or advisory roles that leverage his deep cross-disciplinary experience. An English/Art/Music BA and Stanford Executive Program alum, he brings a designer’s sensibility to technical leadership and product strategy.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
n/a Stanford Executive Program, n/a Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessBA English Art Music, BA English Art Music at The University of Texas at Austin
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