Jay Galvin

Current

• Managing Director at digiAssist, Ltd

Past

• Managing Director/CMO at interest.com
• Strategic Marketing – Mobile Solutions Group at Trimble Navigation
• Sr Manager Palm OS Licensing, Platform Solutions Group at Palm, Inc.

• Senior Marketing Manager, Wireless Internet Technologies Group at Motorola
• Technology Sales and Marketing at Apple Computer
• New Products Marketing Manager at AT&T

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Education

• University of Illinois at Chicago

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Industry

Internet

Jay Galvin’s Summary

Experienced management/marketing executive with broad experience in many aspects of business development, product marketing and management. Direct experience with creating customer focused products, market research, business planning, strategic and tactical roadmaps, building and guiding internal and external teams, all aspects of marketing, branding, startups and the M&A process, P&L ownership, sales, and distribution channels.

Always looking for the challenge and interesting times....

Jay Galvin’s Specialties:

- Consumer technology products and information services (including eCommerce and infrastructure), specifically: handhelds, OS development and licensing, wireless, GPS, Internet & financial advertising services
- B2B, B2C, SEO/SEM, MRD/TRD and M&A (had enough alphabet soup?)

Jay Galvin’s Experience

• Managing Director

  digiAssist, Ltd

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  November 2001 — Present (8 years 1 month)

  • Recently managed online division of $25M financial publishing company: interest.com [Marketing, sales, development team, M&A]
  • Currently building business plan to revitalize angel funded start-up in the personal Internet video arena [GenerationPix]
  • Built patent and licensing strategy for Bio-tech start-up in the telemetry space [CorpuLux]
  • Developed personal GPS tracking system business plan for Trimble Navigation

• Managing Director/CMO

  interest.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2002 — March 2006 (3 years 5 months)

  B2C2B Financial markets, #2 on Nielsen Net Rating

• Strategic Marketing – Mobile Solutions Group

  Trimble Navigation

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TRMB; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2002 — November 2002 (10 months)

  Built business plan for Web targeted GPS/tracking device

• Sr Manager Palm OS Licensing, Platform Solutions Group

  Palm, Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PALM; Computer Hardware industry)

  February 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 7 months)

  Managed the Palm OS licensing team, including responsibility for Handspring, Sony, Garmin, Acer, Symbol, etc...

• Senior Marketing Manager, Wireless Internet Technologies Group

  Motorola

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1993 — February 2000 (6 years 5 months)

• Technology Sales and Marketing

  Apple Computer

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; APPL; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 1987 — October 1993 (6 years 3 months)

• New Products Marketing Manager

  AT&T

  (Telecommunications industry)

  December 1980 — August 1987 (6 years 9 months)

  Illinois Bell
  Ameritech
  AT&T
  Bell System

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