28 Facts About Bud Colligan

John C "Bud" Colligan was born on August 14,1954 and is a community activist, social entrepreneur, investor and company builder.

Bud Colligan was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom as his senior advisor for international affairs and trade in March, 2019.

Bud Colligan is co-founder of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, co-founder of the non-profit community-development organization Pacific Community Ventures, former partner at Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm, and former chairman and CEO of Macromedia, a multimedia software company.

Bud Colligan was raised in Glendale, CA along with five siblings, including youngest brother Edward "Ed" Bud Colligan.

Bud Colligan attended Georgetown University in Washington, DC While there, he led Students of Georgetown, Inc, an organization offering Georgetown students hands-on experience running businesses, while concurrently funding philanthropic causes throughout the campus community.

In 1983, Bud Colligan earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Bud Colligan has been involved in community affairs for more than 30 years, focusing on education and economic development, particularly in underserved communities.

Bud Colligan co-founded, served as chairman of the board from 1998 to 2010, and is currently chairman emeritus of Pacific Community Ventures.

Bud Colligan served on the Leadership Council of Opportunity Fund from 2012 to 2020, the nation's leading, not-for-profit, microfinance provider.

Bud Colligan spearheaded the expansion of both Opportunity Fund and Pacific Community Ventures into Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties.

Bud Colligan was a founding board member of Santa Cruz Works, a non-profit organization focused on developing jobs and a thriving eco-system for science and technology companies in the Monterey Bay region.

Bud Colligan is co-founder of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, whose mission is to improve the economic health and quality of life for all residents in the Monterey Bay region.

Bud Colligan served on the board of directors of JobTrain from 2001 to 2010 and as chairman of the board from 2007 to 2009.

Bud Colligan was the first investor in, and now serves on the board of advisors of Digital NEST in Watsonville and Salinas, which provides access and creates opportunity for underserved youth to learn digital skills.

An active supporter of Georgetown University, Colligan served from 1998 to 2015 on the board of visitors for the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Bud Colligan served on Georgetown's board of regents from 2003 to 2009.

In 2007, Bud Colligan co-founded the Georgetown Technology Alliance and served on its board of directors until 2015.

Bud Colligan received Georgetown's highest alumni honor in 2013, the John Carroll Award.

From 2020 to 2023, Bud Colligan served on the board of directors of the California State University Monterey Bay Foundation, where he was on the investment committee.

In 2024, Bud Colligan was named to the Chancellor's Advisory Board at University of California Santa Cruz.

In 1983, Bud Colligan joined Apple Inc as part of the team that launched the groundbreaking Macintosh personal computer.

Bud Colligan later headed Apple's higher-education marketing group and grew revenues to more than half-a-billion dollars within three years.

Bud Colligan served as CEO of Macromedia from 1992 to 1997 and took the company public on NASDAQ in December, 1993.

Bud Colligan was a partner at Accel Partners from 1998 to 2015, and focused on investments in software, digital media, education, mobile and cloud computing.

Bud Colligan has been an investor and board member at lynda.

Bud Colligan is an investor in and advisor to PayStand, Levered Learning, Lord of the Games and Tixr.

Bud Colligan organized California's first international trade mission of the Newsom administration to Mexico.

Bud Colligan rebuilt the international affairs and trade group to be an effective promoter of exports from the world's 5th largest economy.