Patrick McGovern

Current

CEO / Founder at WhereApps Inc

Past

CMO at Skout, Inc
VP Marketing at Splunk
VP Community & Services at Splunk, Inc

Director, SourceForge.net at VA Software
Director, E-commece at VA Linux Systems
President & CEO at My-Website, Inc
President & CEO at Netjet Communications

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Education

University of San Francisco

Recommended

20 people have recommended Patrick

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

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Patrick McGovern’s Summary

Proven leader, visionary, and entrepreneur in the IT and Internet industries. Drove all aspects of Marketing for fast growth, venture backed software company. Managed top 100 website (according to Alexa) for 5 years with over 15,000,000 page views and 2,000,000 downloads a day.

Patrick McGovern’s Specialties:

Entrepreneur, Marketing, Community building, Open Source, Online Outreach, Web 2.0 technologies.

Patrick McGovern’s Experience

CEO / Founder

WhereApps Inc

(Internet industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

WhereApps is a stealth startup focused on Location Based Services (LBS) on mobile devices.
CMO

Skout, Inc

(Internet industry)

September 2008 — April 2009 (8 months)

Skout is a mobile, real-time, location-based dating platform that enables people to meet singles in their vicinity by chatting, sharing photos and other user-generated content.
I'm managing all aspects of marketing as well as leading the fund raising activity.
VP Marketing

Splunk

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 10 months)

All aspects of Marketing at Splunk. Online Marketing, Lead Gen, PR, Tradeshows, Community Outreach.
VP Community & Services

Splunk, Inc

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

April 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 9 months)

Building a broad ecosystem of developers, users and customers to expand Splunk's reach and adoption in the IT Data center.
Director, SourceForge.net

VA Software

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; LNUX; Internet industry)

April 2000 — February 2005 (4 years 11 months)

Managed the World's Largest Open Source Development website for five years. One million registered users. Over 90,000 Open Source Projects. Serving over 12 million pageviews a day. http://www.sourceforge.net
Director, E-commece

VA Linux Systems

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LNUX; Internet industry)

April 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Managed team and built VA's dell-like build-to-order website selling Linux servers and workstations that included integration into the company's ERP system. After launch, the site processed over 35 million dollars of sales in a single quarter which helped fuel the company's spectacular IPO in December 1999.
President & CEO

My-Website, Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 1996 — January 1999 (3 years 1 month)

Founded company to provide simplistic way for users to build on-line communities between family and friends around the world. Products included: My-Kids.com, My-Party.com, My-Pets.com, My-Trip.com, My-Wedding.com. Revenue was generated from sponsorships, advertising, and E-Commerce. My-Website, Inc pioneered unique web based upload technology. My-Mug.com provided live credit card transactions, uploaded photos on to merchandise, extranet system with fulfillment house, and an extensive affiliate program. Affiliates (700+) included CBS, Infoseek, Slashdot.org, Thirdage Media, MacWeek, and PCWorld.
President & CEO

Netjet Communications

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

1993 — 1997 (4 years)

Founder of Premier Web Development Company. Netjet provided high-end solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Specializing in Dynamic (database) content creation tools and E-commerce. Its clients included AT&T, KAO Infosystems, Silicon Graphics Inc, and Filemaker Inc (Formally Claris).