Tim Horan

Tim Horan

VP, Business Development at PocketGear, Inc.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Current
  • VP, Business Development at PocketGear, Inc.
Past
  • CEO & Co-founder at Beecoz
  • VP, Business Development, Sales, and Customer Ops at Motricity
  • Director, Business Development, Sales and Channel Management at Excite (Excite@Home)
Education
  • Northeastern University
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Tim Horan’s Summary

Results oriented executive with a passion for developing and managing high growth online and mobile media, marketing, communication and technology businesses.

Unique and disruptive opportunities in the Internet and mobile industries where I can apply my general management, business development, strategy, and sales skills to drive revenues and profitability are always of interest to me.

Deep domain experience in online, mobile and converged media, products, services, and technologies - distribution and revenue models, search, mobile, lead generation, device OS, platform & developer programs, and related technologies - in direct to consumer and business to business markets.

Tim Horan’s Specialties:

sales, business and product development, strategy, distribution, contract negotiation, partnership management, business planning & operational management, forecasting & budgeting, hiring & recruitment, service delivery, media, wireless, Internet, mobile, social, local, search, new media, advertising.


Tim Horan’s Experience

  • VP, Business Development

    PocketGear, Inc.

    (Internet industry)

    June 2009Present (6 months)

    Leading provider of mobile content and digital media application storefront solutions for service providers, OEM’s, media companies, and consumers.

  • CEO & Co-founder

    Beecoz

    (Internet industry)

    June 2006March 2009 (2 years 10 months)

    Beecoz is a simple and easy way for people to find and share information about local businesses. (Local, Social, Search)

  • VP, Business Development, Sales, and Customer Ops

    Motricity

    (Privately Held; Wireless industry)

    July 2001February 2006 (4 years 8 months)

    Part of management team that helped turn a start-up operation (Pinpoint Networks) in to a globally recognized industry leader delivering search and mobile application storefront solutions to many of the worlds largest mobile operators, oem's, and media companies.

  • Director, Business Development, Sales and Channel Management

    Excite (Excite@Home)

    (Public Company; XCIT; Internet industry)

    July 1996December 2000 (4 years 6 months)

    Led and managed business development, channel management, sales, and product teams in search, advertising and ecommerce for Excite Mobile, Excite.com and the Excite@Home network of media properties.

  • Local and National Sales

    The Washington Post

    (Public Company; Newspapers industry)

    February 1990July 1996 (6 years 6 months)


Tim Horan’s Education

  • Northeastern University

    BS , Business , 19851989

    Activities and Societies:
    Lacrosse, Co-Operative Education positions at General Electric, Fidelity Investments, Sugarbush Ski Resort and Red Sox Fan

Additional Information

Tim Horan’s Websites:

Tim Horan’s Groups:

Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Founding Member of NC Spark

  •    Excite@Home Alumni
  •    MobilOpen :: the mobile business group
  •    Online Advertising Professionals
  •    Pinpoint Networks Alumni Group
  •    On Device Portal Consortium
  •    Motricity Alumni (MoAlum)
  •    Linking Raleigh, NC
  •    Northeastern U. Alumni
  •    NC Spark
  •    Local Search
  •    Symbian Foundation Networking - 2000+ members & growing
  •    Internet Business Development
  •    App Stores

Tim Horan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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