Daniel Fincke
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June 22, 2014: Bryan County News: Finding faith online remain popular; challenging
Five years ago, interfaith couple Leo and Cathie Brunnick decided to find out, launching patheos.com, an "independent religion and spirituality website" that now draws, it claims, 6 million unique monthly visitors. June 13, 2014: Cathie Brunnick: Prespective of a Seeker: Bridging the Gender Gap, Developing Trust and Understanding
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Cathie Brunnick is a founder and serves as Chief Operating Officer at Patheos.com. She leads finance, operations, human resources and site operations. She also drives all marketing efforts - including industry-leading social media approaches - that have built Patheos from scratch to a 4,000,000 unique-monthly-visitor website, all without a dollar of advertising or key-word spend.
Prior to Patheos.com, Cathie held a series of Sales Leadership roles at cutting edge technology companies:
The idea behind Patheos, Leo Brunnick said, is to "create a multi-faith conversation in a for-profit model."
Leo and Cathie Brunnick created their own multifaith conversation first. The couple, both veteran executives with various software and technology companies, met as single parents, dated and planned on blending their families.
"I was raised Catholic," Leo Brunnick recalled, "and Cathie was raised Lutheran but was now a nondenominational kind of evangelical." As the two sought a church appropriate for all their children, Leo Brunnick found little useful in the way of online resources, especially those that helped people understand various religions. Searching led to thinking and planning, and in 2009, the Patheos site launched.
Today, there's little doubt Patheos casts a large shadow in the religious sphere.
Prior to Patheos.com, Cathie held a series of Sales Leadership roles at cutting edge technology companies:
- Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development at Mersive Technologies
- Vice President of Global Channels and Alliances at Vignette Corporation
- Vice President of Sales and Alliances at TeleTech
- Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at USA.NET
- Senior-level positions at Pivotal Corporation and J.D. Edwards and Company.
The idea behind Patheos, Leo Brunnick said, is to "create a multi-faith conversation in a for-profit model."
Leo and Cathie Brunnick created their own multifaith conversation first. The couple, both veteran executives with various software and technology companies, met as single parents, dated and planned on blending their families.
"I was raised Catholic," Leo Brunnick recalled, "and Cathie was raised Lutheran but was now a nondenominational kind of evangelical." As the two sought a church appropriate for all their children, Leo Brunnick found little useful in the way of online resources, especially those that helped people understand various religions. Searching led to thinking and planning, and in 2009, the Patheos site launched.
Today, there's little doubt Patheos casts a large shadow in the religious sphere.
