Jake McGowan

Jake is co-founder and managing partner of Strategy and Client Services for Rolling Orange. With close to two decades of experience at the firm, Jake has earned recognition as an expert in web strategy for higher education working with clients such as Stanford University, Princeton University, UCLA and University of Chicago. He has also delivered Web strategies to leading performing arts organizations, including the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall.

Prior to Rolling Orange, Jake co-founded Pantheon Interactive, one of the first web agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was responsible for establishing client relationships with high-tech stalwarts such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft. Pantheon was purchased in 1998 by iXL Enterprises (now Razorfish), where Jake became Vice President of Online Learning. Prior to Pantheon, he worked at SGI as a product manager of their ground-breaking and award-winning external website, “Silicon Surf.” Away from work, Jake is an avowed “Gym Rat” who frequents local basketball courts for pickup games, adult leagues, and the occasional game of H-O-R-S-E with confused strangers.