John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

John Mecke is the Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, a consultancy focused on enterprise scale software firms. He specializes in product management and corporate development. He has over 20 years of experience in leading product management organizations. He focuses on established firms and the challenges they face in growing revenues, profits, and enterprise value. He has also significant experience in corporate development. John has led four major acquisitions with a total value of $175M. He conducted eight divestitures which generated $24.5M in cash. He played a critical role in producing a $115M dividend for investors, a 2.8x return on the investment in less than three years. He has evaluated over 500 companies for acquisition and conducted over 50 due diligence projects. John has served public companies, private companies, and companies backed by private equity investors.

Jon Gatrell is a Principal Partner at Market Driven Business and brings more than a decade of experience in leadership roles at software companies, most recently as COO and CPO of Loren Data. He also worked as an instructor and course designer for Pragmatic Institute where he trained thousands of product professionals in the art of outside-in business at global brands such as Adobe, Microsoft, Inuit and many other technology companies. Before Pragmatic, Jon held roles in product management, marketing, sales, and corporate development.