Pat spain biography

Patrick J. Spain (born 1952) is a serial entrepreneur. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of First Stop Health, LLC., a Chicago-based provider of telemedicine services.^[1] He is also the Executive Chairman and co-founder of the news curation site Newser.^[2] Spain is the former Chairman and CEO Hoover's, which he co-founded; and the founder and former CEO of HighBeam Research.

Hoover's was sold to Dun & Bradstreet in 2003, and HighBeam Research was purchased by Cengage Learning in 2008.

History

Spain attended the University of Chicago and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in Ancient Roman History in 1974.

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He worked for Gladstone Associates, now part of Accenture from 1974 to 1977. He subsequently attended law school at Boston University, and graduated in 1979. Intrigued by the opportunities in the emerging intersection of information and technology, Spain then joined the Extel Corporation, a telex manufacturer, as an as