Eugene Lee (entrepreneur)


Eugene Lee is an American businessman based in Palo Alto, California.

Early life

Lee received an A.B. in Physics and an Sc. B. in Engineering and Applied Sciences from Harvard University and an M.S. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Career

Lee's career spans startups as well as large established companies, but his focus has always been on "the intersection of people, software, and networks". He was co-founder of Beyond Incorporated, whose BeyondMail product pioneered email filtering and workflow. Lee was VP and GM of the Messaging Business Unit at Banyan, which acquired Beyond, and then was VP Marketing and Business Development for Banyan's Internet Division, where he launched Switchboard.com, the leading online white and yellow pages directory. He moved to California when he was recruited by Cisco Systems as VP Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing, and then held assignments as VP Marketing for Cisco's Internet Communications Software Group, and eventually VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. From 2004 to 2007 Lee was at Adobe Systems as VP Product Marketing for the Intelligent Documents Business Unit and then as VP Vertical and Solutions Marketing. Lee was named "CEO 2.0" to Socialtext in November 2007.
Lee's most recent business, Motiv8 Technologies, was forfeited by the California Secretary of State in July of 2019. An "Sos forfeiture" means that the business entity has been suspended by the California Secretary of State. The reasons for this suspension can vary and might include a failure to file certain documents or a failure to meet certain tax requirements, including the failure to file tax returns or important exemption papers, pay taxes, penalties and/interest when due.

On June 12, 2020, Motiv8 Technologies resumed its "active" status.
Lee is also a volunteer and head of a committee that oversees the marketing efforts of the Peninsula Symphony Orchestra, a volunterr community symphony orchestra located in Los Altos, California. He oversees ticket sales, determines marketing direction and brainstorms ways to increase attendance.
He is the holder of 4 patents.