Allison Rhodes Messner is a Co-founder & CEO at Yardzen. Allison Rhodes Messner is a partner at MkII. She joins the firm after nearly seven years at OpenDNS, where she was a part of the founding team. As the head of marketing and communications there, she led successful efforts to build a world-class technology brand, today embraced by more. than 50 million active users.In addition, Allison has held roles at A&R Partners (now Edelman) and worked as a newspaper reporter in Kodiak, Alaska.