Gabriel Murphy

Gabriel Murphy is a serial entrepreneur who has founded and invested in a number of Internet ventures. Mr. Murphy co-founded CommuniTech.Net in April of 1997 and grew this Internet web hosting firm from a $1,800 investment to over $10 million in revenues and $2.3 million in annual profits while recording 16 consecutive quarters of revenue growth and profitability before its acquisition for $14 million in 2002. In 2003, Mr. Murphy went on to found iNET Interactive, a social media company operating prominent online communities for technology professionals and technology enthusiasts. With an investment of $500,000, Mr. Murphy developed a sales & marketing umbrella for a number of high-traffic web portals focused on web hosting, web development and other related technology fields and consolidated them under one operating company. By late 2005, Mr. Murphy had consummated around a dozen acquisitions and grown revenues at a 60% CAGR. The company was then sold for $4.3 million to Stoddard Hill Media Partners. In 2006, Mr. Murphy teamed up with Catalyst Investors, a New York-based private equity firm to acquire San Diego headquartered Abacus America, Inc. (d/b/a APlus.Net). Mr. Murphy was named Chief Executive Officer in July of 2006.