Jon Kraft

Who is Jon Kraft?

Jon Kraft is Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Big Stage Entertainment, Inc.

Jon Kraft is Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder. Jon has 18 years of experience as an entrepreneur in software and new media, with a record of starting and building innovative companies from scratch to market leadership positions. Jon's companies have often defined new markets, touching industries as diverse as enterprise decision support, music, new media, and computer graphics and animation.

Jon served as co-founder and CEO of Pandora Media (www.pandora.com), the largest and fastest growing online radio site in the world. Jon has also served as president of worldwide marketing and distribution for Auryn, Inc., a cutting edge, VC-backed animation technology company, and co-founder of Stanford Technology Group, an innovator in the relational OLAP market, funded by Sequoia and Hummer Winblad, and acquired by Informix Corporation. Jon went on to head up product marketing and business development for Informix's data warehouse business unit, a business which generated over $200M in annual revenue for Informix. Previously, he worked with Oracle and consulted for numerous Fortune 500 companies.