Kevin Diamond

About Kevin Diamond

Kevin Diamond is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Lumi.Most recently Kevin served as the Chief Digital Officer for the publicly-traded PLBY Group. Kevin oversees all technology, direct marketing and digital consumer products business lines, which include Playboy, Yandy, Honey Birdette and Lovers. Kevin helped oversee the acquisitions of Lovers, HB and two additional companies that form the basis for Centerfold, the company\'s growing social fan network. Over the course of the past year, Kevin has grown the digital businesses, implementing all new common enterprise technologies across the business lines and created a Customer 360 marketing program.Kevin formerly also ran Digital for Forever 21. Ownership of the full P&L and all aspects of the management from marketing, fulfillment, merchandising, technology, service and operations. Kevin\'s eCommerce business drove double-digit profitability and growth. Despite Forever 21 going through tough times, Kevin\'s leadership and bright spot in the business allowed for the company to exit bankruptcy and become the largest component in the ABG portfolio at the time, where Kevin continued to run over half of the company.Previously Kevin served as the Chief Technology Officer at the hot Silicon Beach startup The Black Tux. Before that Kevin ran M&A and Technology strategy for Nordstrom, and was the CTO for NordstromRack.com. Kevin joined Nordstrom through the acquisition of his startup HauteLook which brought in over $1B annually before he left. He oversaw technology, strategy, marketing, operations and was responsible for the development of e-commerce and mobile businesses.Kevin is a seasoned digital executive, with more than a decade and a half of experience leading comprehensive teams and building profitable businesses either from scratch or taking over ones in search of growth.Specialties:Customer ExperienceBusiness DevelopmentGrowth MarketingProduct StrategyTechnology Platform DevelopmentLeadership and Mentorship

Experience

1. Co-founder, CEO

   Lumicup

   Apr 2021 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   LumiCup’s mission is to solve the problem of single-use plastic cups. Our planet is awash in single-use plastic waste, especially disposable plastic cups of all sizes. This year, we’ll use 500 billion of them for a few minutes and then toss them out; usually in the trash, but frequently they end up in our environment where they destroy the ecosystem and harm marine life and wildlife of all sorts.A better way to give consumers what they need while supporting circular manufacturing is to switch to infinitely recyclable aluminum. Most plastic – 95% of it, never gets recycled. Most aluminum does.Our 9 oz, 12 oz, and 16 oz. cups stay cooler, perform better, look nicer and go from your hand to the recycling center, and back to the store shelf in 60 days. Mindlessly sustainable.We can all do better, and this is an easy switch to help the planet.

Education

• UCLA

  B.S.

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Erp
• Java
• Ruby
• Mobile Applications
• Php, Java, C++, Perl
• Rest
• Advertising
• Ajax
• Xml, Json
• Php
• Sales
• Subversion
• Start-Ups
• Mysql
• Soap, Rest Apis
• Xhtml
• Mongodb
• Integrated Marketing
• Integration
• Soap
• Apache
• Soa
• Flash
• Javascript
• Quality Assurance
• Web Development
• Mysql, Mssql, Mongodb
• E-Commerce
• Git
• Digital Media
• Linux
• Linux, Windows Server Administration
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• Mvc
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Perl
• Zend Framework, Cakephp
• Agile Methodologies
• Web Services