Pat Higbie

Pat is an entrepreneur with a career of building technology firms from the ground up. He is building a culture at XAPPmedia that fosters ownership, commitment and innovation from every team member and partner. Prior to XAPPmedia, he was EVP at Xtone; and before that was Founder and CEO of DataFocus. DataFocus was a pioneer in data modeling and relational data base design and later developed NuTCRACKER. He sold the services business to CIBER, and the NuTCRACKER business to MKS (now PTC). Pat received a BS in Civil Engineering with High Honors from U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.