Jon Burke

Multidisciplinary business lead in growth, sales, partnerships, customer success, advertising, monetization, and marketing programs for WordPress.com, Jetpack enterprise, WP Cloud, and other Automattic businesses. Currently serving as Vice President, representing WP Cloud, Jetpack, and WPScan. Leading new business growth for WP Cloud, Automattic's cloud service that powers hundreds of millions of sites. Led Automattic's remote work products including P2, Automattic's collaboration platform for asynchronous collaboration. With 2000 global employees and no offices, Automattic has been a pioneer in distributed work practices. Developed the go-to-market plan, and implemented marketing, client sales, and customer success for P2. Provide new hires with remote work training and enablement. Launched Automattic's Marketing department in 2015 and grew the team to include: events, SEM, SEO, PR, content marketing, customer research, product launch management, and more. In 2011, my ads team launched WordAds. We built a proprietary ad server for WordPress sites that reported earnings and issued payouts to thousands of customers. To protect advertisers, we developed an award-winning brand safety platform.

Currently investing in and managing short-term rental properties. Advisor to and investor in early-stage tech companies. Exits include: MoPub was acquired by Twitter (TWTR) in September 2013. MobSmith was acquired by Magnite (MGNI) in May 2012. LiftDNA was acquired by Openx in February 2012. ClassPass was acquired by MindBody in 2021.

After Chai Labs was acquired by Facebook (now Meta) I restructured the company so that we could continue to service our clients.

Acquired by Facebook. Chai Labs built an NLP/summarization technology platform used by publishers such as NBC, Warner Bros, and Travelocity. Chai Labs was venture capital backed through a seed round and reached a multi-million dollar annual run rate before being acquired by Facebook. In my role, I introduced the startup's capabilities to major media companies and project-led the partnerships. Additionally, I managed monetization partners on the sites that we owned.

Investor in and first US employee at venture-backed startup that held an IPO in 2020. Pubmatic sells an online advertising revenue optimization platform and services package. Developed go-to-market plan. Recruited, trained, and managed sales and account management team plus contractors and partners in the US, India, and Europe.

Led ad sales and publisher sales for advertising in RSS feeds, podcasts and videocasts. Pheedo became one of the top two networks for RSS advertising. Brought on board 250+ premium online publishers while managing a team responsible for retention, business development, and ad trafficking.

Keep Media was a paid content platform founded by Louis Borders, creator of Borders Books. There I developed, negotiated, and closed 240+ licensing and distribution agreements with leading magazine, newspaper, book, and Web publishers, including BusinessWeek, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and US News & World Report.

Wrote business plan and led pioneering company in Web globalization. Took it to $10M in revenues. Raised $60 million in funding from GE Capital, Goldman Sachs, and others.

Launched initial edition and contributed to growth from five people to 100, recording the fastest revenue growth of any business publication in history. Spoke at numerous industry events and on CNN business programs and wrote a column for The Los Angeles Times business section.