Matt McGowan is responsible for Incisive Media's U.S. operations in addition to overseeing all marketing, sales, editorial and operations for ClickZ.com, SearchEngineWatch.com, ClickZ Events and the international conference and exposition series Search Engine Strategies.

Prior to joining Incisive, Matt was VP at PropertyRoom.com, where he oversaw all sales, marketing, and operations for the U.S.-based auction services company. Earlier in his career in San Francisco, Matt developed an e-business strategy for the multinational publishing house, Pearson Plc. Before that, he worked on the institutional desk for Schwab Capital Markets and Trading, a division of Charles Schwab Inc, in New York and San Francisco.

Matt has a bachelor's from Lafayette College in Easton, Penn., and a master's from the University of Oxford in the U.K.