Pete Johnson
Pre-startup Phase of Enterprise Mobile Venture
- Location
- Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Pete Johnson's Overview
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- Chief Operating Officer at Augaroo, Inc.
- Past
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- Vice President & General Manager, Projects & Consulting at Three Pillar Global, Inc.
- President, Professional Services at PointAbout Inc.
- President at High 10, LLC
- Founder - President - Owner at Virtualogic, Inc.
- Eastern US Regional Manager at Compus Management Systems
- Federal Government Manager at Asyst Technologies, Inc.
- Manager at CACI
- Education
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- The University of Edinburgh
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Recommendations
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2 people have recommended Pete
- Connections
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324 connections
- Websites
Pete Johnson's Summary
Starting and building IT services and software businesses. Enjoyed advising or managing numerous startups in IT services and dotcom, and a few others in fashion, art, and real estate. In early 2010 I was invited to join a particularly promising mobile startup called PointAbout. I built and grew PointAbout's Pro Svcs until we sold the unit, allowing the founders to focus on mobile products.
Specialties
Startup, infrastructure, IT services and software business models/business planning, hiring, comp plan innovation, market positioning, mobile apps. Developed and applied these skills for Federal IT, commerical IT consulting, software tools/applications.
Pete Johnson's Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Augaroo, Inc.
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
December 2011 – Present (2 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Mobile & social development, advanced analytics, data warehousing, BI, predictive modeling and real time personalization. Fortune 1000, including select digital startups and software companies.
Vice President & General Manager, Projects & Consulting
Three Pillar Global, Inc.
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry
May 2011 – November 2011 (7 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Handled all sell-side aspects of the acquisition of PointAbout ProfSvcs by Three Pillar Global. Integrated PointAbout's operations with existing SaaS capabilities and three offshore subsidiaries. Managed the overall consulting business for Three Pillar, which included the PointAbout team.
President, Professional Services
PointAbout Inc.
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
March 2010 – May 2011 (1 year 3 months) Washington, DC
General manager of professional services including mobile strategy consulting, mobile app and mobile web site design, mobile app development. Provided R&D support to PointAbout products www.appmakr.com and www.getsocialize.com. Managed negotiations and sale of the unit to Three Pillar Global.
President
High 10, LLC
January 2001 – August 2008 (7 years 8 months)
Invested in 10 startups. Retained by Hitachi and others to advise on acquisition targets. Served as BoD member on various. Assisted in fund raising. Amidst the IT venture slump the company was shut down and remaining portfolio companies transferred to shareholders. Last investment was closed out in 2008.
Founder - President - Owner
Virtualogic, Inc.
April 1993 – April 2001 (8 years 1 month)
IT Services (software development, e-commerce, data warehousing and business intelligence) for Fortune 1000 clients (no federal). Founded 1993 and grew the business to $20M and 150 employees. Sold to Hitachi joint venture over the 1998-2001 timeframe. Became Hitachi Consulting in combination with subsequent acquisitions by Hitachi.
Federal Government Manager
Asyst Technologies, Inc.
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ASYT; Semiconductors industry
1988 – 1989 (1 year)
Regional office management, marketing and sales for a software engineering tools vendor. Management of R&D team in Montreal.
Manager
CACI
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; CACI; Information Technology and Services industry
1981 – 1988 (7 years) Denver, DC, Montgomery, San Antonio, St Louis
Manager, Information Engineering Dept. Youngest department manager in this publicly traded professional services provider. Hired and managed staff to perform DoD contracts. Opened and managed field offices in 4 locations.
Pete Johnson's Education
The University of Edinburgh
na, Economics
1980 – 1981
Indiana University Bloomington
BA, Economics
1978 – 1980
Pete Johnson's Additional Information
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design, mountain biking, running, climbing, yoga
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100 Top Private Companies, Washtech Fast 50, Deloitte Fast Track and other growth awards.
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