VMIX Names Turnaround CEO

San Diego’s VMIX, a venture-backed startup that provides online video platform technology, today named a Bay Area turnaround management consultant, Patrick J. Burns, as its president and CEO. Burns replaces Mike Glickenhaus, who was named to the same position at VMIX two years ago, and whose departure was not mentioned in today’s statement or previously disclosed by the company. VMIX says Burns “brings over 20 years of experience as CEO at high-growth software, hardware and medical-device companies” and suggests he intends to broaden the company’s strategy beyond the media focus that Glickenhaus outlined for me last year. In his Linkedin profile, Burns describes himself as a turnaround and crisis management specialist, and says he is currently managing director of Neocon Associates.




Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.