Kevin Henrikson


Kevin Henrikson is a San Francisco-based entrepreneur, angel investor, engineer, and speaker who has headed several software companies, including Zimbra, Alpha Brand Media and Acompli.

Career

Kevin Henrikson earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 2000. At Zimbra, Henrikson served as the Director of Engineering and managed the development of Zimbra Advanced Client and Standard Client. Before joining Zimbra in 2005, Henrikson was a leader for Federal Express, iSearch, and Openwave Systems. Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007 for $350 million, which later sold it to VMware. Henrikson then left Zimbra after Yahoo! acquired it and then worked for VMware before leaving to serve as an entrepreneur in residence at Redpoint Ventures. Henrikson served as the Vice President of Engineering at Acompli, which he co-founded with JJ Zhuang, and raised $7.3 million in funding for its mobile app product. Acompli was acquired 18 months later by Microsoft for $200 million in 2014 and is now Outlook Mobile. Henrikson served as Partner Director of Engineering with Microsoft until joining Instacart in 2018 as their VP of Engineering. Henrikson is also an angel investor and startup advisior for over 20 companies, including having helped raise over $1.1 million for the Ministry of Supply.

Speaking and writing

Kevin Henrikson has served as a speaker for various technology related conferences including those by O’Reilly OSCON, in which he presented on offline support; SitePoint, in which he discussed ameliorating "the performance of web applications that rely on large JavaScript/CSS codebases; and Moz, in which he discussed outsourcing work online. Dropbox, Pantheon, Zimbra and VMWare, among others, have featured technology related articles written by Kevin Henrikson., a mobile email app that empowers professionals to be responsive and get more done from anywhere.