John Zagula, PARTNER
John is a partner at Ignition Capital. He makes growth equity investments in a range of industries. John represents Ignition as director on the boards of Seamobile/MTN, Oriental Cambridge Education Group (China), eHi Transportation (China), PPS.TV (China), Claimhub, Clearcycle, Enclarity, and ice.com. He is a managing director of Qiming, Ignition's partner fund in China.John is also the co-author (along with Rich Tong) of the bestselling, acclaimed new book, The Marketing Playbook.
Prior to Ignition, John spent over 8 years at Microsoft in various senior marketing and strategy positions. As GM of Global Campaigns he was responsible for Microsoft's overall business-to-business communications. In previous positions he was responsible for the development of the Microsoft Office brand and marketing the desktop and server applications product lines including the launches of every version of Office and all of its component applications and its growth from a $50 MM to a nearly $10 billion business and from 20% to 85% market share. John's other contributions and responsibilities at Microsoft included the company's most successful online marketing campaigns; its first use of internet banners and email; the establishment of a database marketing practice; and an ongoing marketing and business strategy training curriculum. Before Microsoft, John held positionsa at American Express International and at International Data Corporation.
John holds a Masters in International Economics and Monetary Theory from the Fletcher School (Harvard/Tufts), BA (magna cum laude) from Marquette University and a Fulbright Scholarship at Universität zu Köln.
For more on John and his interests see Zagula Spells...; for his and others' reflections on business and marketing topics see the Marketing Playbook and on technology see Geekfishing.