John Bracken

Experienced entrepreneur and business executive with a passion for building digital communication products that connect people via messaging, voice, video, social media, and mobile. Over 20 years experience supporting the development and distribution of great products on the Internet including Evite, Patch, MapQuest, AIM, Speek and a number of other SaaS based communication services.

Highlights

• Co-Founder and COO of Localvest -- coming soon...

• Co-Founder and CEO of Speek.com. Speek is a simple web-based conference calling and meeting service which won numerous Industry awards including WSJ Startup of the Year and PC Magazine Top 100 best web service. As CEO, raised over $5m in funding and later sold the company to Jive Communications.

• Creator and patent-holder for web-based conference calling using a personal link. The patent was acquired by LogMeIn, the owner of Join.me and GotoMeeting.

• Co-Founder, COO, and Business Development executive at Evite.com responsible for the early development and growth of the company. Evite continues to dominate its market category reaching 100s of millions of internet users.

• Product and Business Development executive at AOL focused on AOL's core messaging apps including AIM, AOL IM, and Mobile messaging when these products were leaders in the market. Business Development executive at AOL supporting products such as Mapquest and Patch.

• Early career focused as strategy consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton and the San Francisco Consulting Group working with clients in the Technology and Communications industry.

• BS, Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia MBA, University of California at Berkeley -- Haas School of Business

Specialties: SaaS, Product Management, Fundraising, business development, product/service distribution, contract negotiation, entrepreneurship, strategy consulting, Internet, internet communications and social networking, mobile technology, technology licensing