Kevin Dewalt

Occupation: Board Member
Biography: Kevin has over 15 years experience driving technology innovation in start-ups, large companies and the federal government. He has held leadership roles in all aspects of entrepreneurship including fundraising, product development, software engineering, business development/sales, and strategic marketing/brand development. He is founder and CEO of ManyWheels, a start-up in the automotive logistics space funded by the National Science Foundation. As a strategic venture capitalist Kevin helped make over $20M of venture investments into 25 technology startups that serve the federal market. Kevin founded Soapbox.com, a start-up subsidiary company he incubated in The Motley Fool, building the consumer online marketplace from the ground-up after securing $2m in funding. At NASD, Kevin developed the business plans to commercialize the company's regulatory applications and lead a 35-person, worldwide engineering team that regulates the NASDAQ Stock Market. He began his career as an engineer and project manager with the US Coast Guard and DMW Worldwide, a start-up telecom software company. Kevin has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the US Coast Guard Academy, where he was the top graduate in his class, and an MS in EE from Stanford University. He is also a former board member of the New Media Society, and panel reviewer for investments by the National Science Foundation.