John Murcott

John started Karma411, a social networking site that raises money for nonprofits, with his business partner Mark Fasciano in 2007. He is responsible for product development and runs the engineering and QA efforts on the site. He works with non-profits to get them started in the Web 2.0 world and reach out to their first supporters. He is also responsible for Marketing and Public Relations.

John Murcott led the FatWire Products Group and Engineering Team and was responsible for product strategy and direction. He grew an offshore Engineering team in Hyderabad, India to support development and QA processes for the Product. He is an expert on Persuasive Content Centric Applications and has spoken many times on personalization strategies and targeted marketing best practices.

Prior to running Products and Engineering, John started and ran FatWire Professional Services, which was responsible for 100% revenue growth for three years and provided most of the original funding for the company before the first round of capital was raised.

Before joining FatWire, John worked for Andersen Consulting, where he managed development teams that connected consumer services to large commercial databases for telecommunications clients. John received his MBA from the University of Maryland with a concentration in Information Technology and Operations Management.