President & Chief Strategy Officer at Abacus America, Inc. (dba Aplus.Net)
Kansas City, Missouri Area
- Current
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- President at Murphy Properties, LLC
- Managing Partner at Aberration! Ventures, LLC
- Past
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- President & Chief Strategy Officer at Aplus.Net
- Chief Executive Officer at APlus.Net (Abacus America, Inc.)
- Founder & President at iNET Interactive, LLC
- Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Interland (now Web.com)
- Chief Executive Officer at CommuniTech.Net, Inc.
- Education
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- Cornell University
- Winnetonka High School
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Gabriel Murphy’s Summary
Serial entrepreneur and business executive with a multitude of experience in early stage and hyper-growth, recurring revenue technology and computer-related businesses founded on a Software-as-a-Service revenue model. Expertise in business automation via development of homegrown web applications.
Gabriel Murphy’s Specialties:
Back office systems automation, UI design and layout, web analytics, online marketing & CPGA-oriented sales analysis.
Gabriel Murphy’s Experience
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President
Murphy Properties, LLC
(Real Estate industry)
November 2003 — Present (5 years 9 months)
Acquired 7 multi-tenant office buildings throughout the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce totalling 600,000 square feet. The firm has a focus on value-add, underperforming properties where signficant capial investment is needed in common areas and first-generation tenant improvements.
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Managing Partner
Aberration! Ventures, LLC
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)
Small private equity firm investing in SaaS, recurring revenue models with high growh potential and beyond pre-revenue concepts. Portfolio companies include iNET Interactive, LLC (sold), Axia Golf Solutions (sold), CobraGuard, Inc. (active investment), FuseMail, LLC (active investment) and Mobile Entertainment (active investment).
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President & Chief Strategy Officer
Aplus.Net
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2008 — November 2008 (3 months)
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Chief Executive Officer
APlus.Net (Abacus America, Inc.)
(Internet industry)
July 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Responsible for orchastrating the acquisition of Abacus America, Inc. from private shareholders by raising $18 million in private equity and securing a senior debt facility of $22 million from a New York-based hedge fund D.B. Zwirn. Oversee 5 offices including an international office in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Founder & President
iNET Interactive, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2002 — November 2005 (3 years 8 months)
iNET Interactive was founded in at a time when eyeballs had no value and CPMs were dropping like flies. We felt the market was irrational and there was inherant value in web properties with captive audiences within specific vertical markets- hosting, computer hardware and software. Our theory was investing in "auto-content generation" content- discussion communities, social networks and the like was the way to go. With that in mind, iNET Interactive acquired 16 web properties including HotScripts.com & WebHostingTalk.com. The network had grown to 50 million page views per month before it was sold in November of 2005.
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Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions
Interland (now Web.com)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
February 2002 — September 2002 (8 months)
During my short stint at Interland (employment with Interland being a requirement of selling my company to them), I was named VP of M&A whereby I spearheaded the acquisition of Burlee Networks and Dialtone Internet as well as helped plan the integration of these firms into the "mothership".
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Chief Executive Officer
CommuniTech.Net, Inc.
(Internet industry)
April 1997 — February 2002 (4 years 11 months)
Co-founded this company as a SME web hosting firm back at a time when web hosting was in its infancy and penetration rates of web sites by businesses (espeically SMBs) was >10%. The firm was self-funded and we grew the company from its founding to $9 million in revenue and 35% EBITDA margins with no outside capital. The company was sold in February of 2002 to Interland, Inc. (now Web.com).
Gabriel Murphy’s Education
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Cornell University
B.S. , Business Management & Marketing , 1996 — 1999
Loved Cornell, did not love so much the Ithaca weather. Disliked the late snow in May. Very much liked my professors, especially Deb Streeter.
- Activities and Societies:
- Honor Society, CEO Club
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Winnetonka High School
Additional Information
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Gabriel Murphy’s Interests:
Entrepreneurship, red wine, numismatics, fine art, multi-tenant office buildings, boating, The Dave Matthews Band
Gabriel Murphy’s Groups:
Young Entrepreneurs Organization
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Hosting Industry
Gabriel Murphy’s Honors:
-- 2001 Greater Kansas City Small Business of the Year & "Mr. K" Award Winner
-- 2001 Ernst & Young "Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year" Award Recipient
-- "40 Under 40" Business Leaders Class of 2001 by Ingrams' Magazine
-- 2001 Deloitte & Touche "Fast 50" Award Recipient
-- 2006 Deloitte & Touche "Fast 50" Award Recipient
Gabriel Murphy’s Contact Settings
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