ZoomInfo
Founders
Henry Schuck, Kirk Brown · Founded 2007 · HQ today: Vancouver, Washington, United States
ZoomInfo was founded by Henry Schuck, Kirk Brown in 2007. It is now led by Henry Schuck.
Henry Schuck and Kirk Brown founded DiscoverOrg in 2007. In the company's founder's letter, Schuck writes that he and his co-founder put $25,000 on their credit cards while he was still in law school. DiscoverOrg's first product was researched, verified contact and org-chart data, initially for teams selling to IT departments.
| Founder | Role at founding | Contribution | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Schuck | Founder & CEO | — | — |
| Kirk Brown | Co-founder | — | en.wikipedia.org |
Entrepreneur with a background in data collection and sales intelligence.
Schuck co-founded DiscoverOrg in 2007, bootstrapping the B2B data company by manually compiling IT organizational charts. He orchestrated the massive 2019 acquisition of Zoom Information and subsequently rebranded the combined entity to ZoomInfo, taking it public in 2020. Henry Schuck was born in 1983.
Co-founder with expertise in data collection operations.
Brown co-founded DiscoverOrg alongside Henry Schuck in 2007. He helped build the initial data collection methodologies that differentiated the company's B2B intelligence platform before eventually stepping back from day-to-day operations.
Education: University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Graham O'Brien
Chief Financial Officer
He helped navigate the post-IPO growth phase and optimized go-to-market strategies amid increasing macroeconomic headwinds in software spending.
Henry Schuck
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Has led the company from its 2007 founding through its IPO and later repositioning as an AI go-to-market platform.
ZoomInfo was founded as DiscoverOrg in 2007 by Henry Schuck and Kirk Brown, who previously worked together at early sales data firm iProfile.
In their early twenties, Schuck and Brown pooled $25,000 on personal credit cards, working out of a small apartment and generating cash flow from their very first customer contracts.
Kirk Brown served as co-founder and business development leader, driving early enterprise sales and client acquisition alongside Schuck before retiring from full-time management.
While competitors relied on inaccurate web scraping, Schuck and Brown hand-verified IT org charts by phone every 90 days, guaranteeing 95%+ data accuracy to enterprise sales teams.
Yonatan Stern founded Zoom Information Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 2000, pioneering algorithmic web crawling for B2B profiles before DiscoverOrg acquired the company in 2019.
After seven years of self-funded growth, TA Associates acquired a minority stake in 2014, followed by The Carlyle Group in 2018, backing the founders' ambitious M&A expansion.
The founders relocated corporate operations to Vancouver, Washington, to tap into the Pacific Northwest technology talent pool while enjoying favorable business and tax environments.
Henry Schuck remains active as CEO and Chairman, while Kirk Brown retired as an executive but retained substantial equity wealth following the landmark 2020 NASDAQ IPO.
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