Jeff Whatcott is Communicator in Chief (a.k.a VP of Marketing) at Acquia. He is responsible for all marketing activity including corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, alliances, and evangelism.
Jeff joined Acquia in December 2007. Prior to joining Acquia Jeff worked at Adobe, where he served as vice president of marketing and business development for the enterprise business unit and led go to market activity for the Flex and LiveCycle product lines. Jeff has also held a variety of leadership positions at Macromedia, Allaire, Ashford.com, and Compaq. He began his career at Seiko Instruments in Japan, working in product internationalization.
Whatcott is an experienced public speaker and is fluent in English and Japanese. He is often invited to talk about topics such as social publishing, content management, and rich Internet applications.
Whatcott holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics as well as an M.B.A. He earned both degrees at Brigham Young University.