J Patrick Bewley is a career entrepreneur in the field of marketing and data sciences with extensive experience globally as well as running P&L’s in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bewley is the Chairman and CEO of Atlanta based data sciences company Big Cloud Analytics. Prior to BCA, JP was the CEO of venture backed e-commerce company Bridgevine, Inc. where he grew both revenues and profits by more than fifty percent. Under his leadership, Bridgevine received its six consecutive ranking as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States.
At 37 years old, JP was the youngest CEO of the publicly held investment group Safeguard Scientific's portfolio of companies. Prior to joining Bridgevine, JP led the $319 Million Global Consulting and Agency business for publicly traded Acxiom (NASDAQ: ACXM), the world's largest consumer database company, a business he built from start up. In 2011, the Global Consulting and Agency Business Unit led Acxiom to be recognized as the global leader in the strategy category by Forrester Research and the #1 CRM Agency in the USA as ranked by AdAge.
Prior to joining Acxiom, Bewley spent a decade in Silicon Valley as a marketing technology and big data entrepreneur, founding Raine Media.
Bewley has overseen marketing strategy and analytics operations on five continents and has feet on the street start up experience in fourteen countries.
In 2011, JP was recognized as one of the top 40 world leaders under the age of 40 by Council for United States and Italy, a Brookings Institute managed association originally co-founded by Rockefeller.
In 2008 JP was the Democratic Candidate Elect for the Arkansas House of Representatives.
Bewley has been a contributor to the New York Times, Business Week, DM News and various other media.