Richard F. Govatski

Richard F. Govatski is President and Chief Executive Officer of New Mexico Software, Inc. He founded the company in 1995, after identifying market inefficiencies in how intellectual property owners managed their image assets. Before New Mexico Software, Mr. Govatski spent 18 years in systems integration and publishing, in sales management and software development. He led the sales teams for Popular Electronics, Computer Shopper, Shutterbug and MacWeek. He sold numerous solutions for vendors, including Kodak Co., Apple Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Govatski also spent several years in systems development as President of Media Publishing Group and built graphic applications for companies including Ferrari Color, Time Inc., New York Daily News and Getty Images. After creating the enterprise applications and e-commerec strategy at New Mexico Software, Mr. Govatski took the company public in August 1999. He holds a B.S. in communications from Butler University.