Darrell Lynn | Source | Founder and CEO at uSync

Darrell is a former director at Apple with extensive experience in the technology and enterprise sectors. During his time at Apple, he was directly responsible for rebuilding the largest sales channel at Apple with an innovative program to put computers into every student’s backpacks. Apple’s market share in the education channel grew from 11% to over 40% due to Darrell’s efforts. During this period, his influence toward building collaborative software also saw a shift from personal architecture to collaborative architecture utilizing wireless environments and portability being the primary focus for hardware innovation with software driving the experience.

Prior to joining Apple, Darrell was focused on ubiquitous computing. He looked for a city that was close to innovation hubs and where some of the world’s best software talent lived. Meeting with leaders in Nashua, NH, Darrell felt it was an ideal opportunity for him to take some risks. Over several years, Darrell fully connected the city to the Internet, enabling the city to embrace the idea that commerce, education, and city services can be accessed online.
Governor Jeanne Shaheen heard about Darrell’s work in Southern NH and invited him to the state Capital in Concord where plans were in development for a statewide infrastructure built on his work. The statewide initiative was well underway when he received a call from his former boss at Apple, Steve Jobs, to ask if he would move back to California and take on some projects at Apple.

During his time at Apple, he created and lead their 1-1 Program which moved the technology deployment of computers in education to a more consumer-facing model where decision-making moved from institutions to consumers. The make—ready challenge that was overcome was building wireless devices and software that could co-exist with competing products. With this accomplished, Apple was able to move from 11% of the market to a dominating 63% in education.

Collaborative cloud applications became Darrell’s passion during this experience. Darrell and his team developed several prototype cloud collaboration applications that were tested and later adopted. He designed and managed enterprise hardware and coordinated third party development and also led product marketing, placement and strategic partnerships in a number of collaborative verticals such as education and science.

Darrell left Apple the same day that Steve Jobs passed, and pursued his dream of connecting people.