Travis Van

Current

Founder at ITDatabase

Past

Marketing Director at MuleSoft Inc
PR Manager at Page One PR
PR Manager at MediaLive International

Account Executive at Niehaus Ryan Wong

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Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

Connections

217 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Travis Van’s Experience

Founder

ITDatabase

(Computer Software industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

ITDatabase is the leading media research platform for tech industry marketing, PR and sales pros.
Marketing Director

MuleSoft Inc

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

December 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 8 months)

MuleSoft is an open source infrastructure and integration software start-up (venture funded by Morgenthaler, Lightspeed and Hummer Winblad). Travis was one of the first employees of the company and managed numerous marketing and customer development programs.
PR Manager

Page One PR

(Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

March 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 7 months)

Founded in 2002, Page One PR is a Palo Alto- based tech PR firm that represents a variety of (start-up and publicly traded) enterprise IT clients. While at Page One PR, Travis managed PR efforts for Cassatt (datacenter automation), Splunk (IT log file search), Univa (enterprise Grid computing), Globus (open source Grid), Levanta (Linux systems management), GroundWork (open source- based network monitoring and management) and ActiveGrid (RIA / IDE platform).
PR Manager

MediaLive International

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

February 2001 — February 2003 (2 years 1 month)

MediaLive was a technology publisher and events company that was later acquired by CMP. While at MediaLive, Travis managed PR for some of the IT industry's largest events: COMDEX, N+I, VoiceCon and NGN.
Account Executive

Niehaus Ryan Wong

(Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — January 2001 (10 months)

Niehaus Ryan Wong was one of the higher profile tech PR firms servicing Internet industry clients during the rapid growth period of the 1990s. Travis joined NRW at the tail end of the bubble, but was able to gain invaluable experience by working on accounts like OpenCola (peer to peer file sharing), Opion (web analytics) and Evoke Software (data mining software).