Patrick Gildea

Patrick Gildea is the Chief Financial Officer for GumGum overseeing all finance and HR operations. Patrick has led finance, HR, legal and strategy departments that span from the start-up phase to high-growth global public companies with multiple successful strategic exits over the past decade. Patrick’s hands-on leadership style has allowed him to build high-performing teams to support scalable operations aligned with the vision of the business.

Prior to GumGum, Patrick help lead Joybird.com to a successful exit with La-Z-boy, served as the CFO of Gracenote, where he was instrumental in both its growth to a $250 million business that operated 5 divisions with more than 2,000 employees in 20 offices around the globe and in its sale to Nielsen Media in 2017 for $583MM, and was the first CFO of M-GO scaling the business and ultimately selling it to NBCUniversal to become FandangoNow.com.

Earlier in his career, Patrick was the Group Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development at Blackhawk Network (NASDAQ:HAWK), ran corporate development at IC Media, where he helped raise three rounds of venture capital and sold the business to Citibank Private Equity, was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston and began his career as a CPA at Arthur Andersen. Patrick graduated with a degree in Japanese from Sophia University and a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Southern California.