Pat Matthews - SVP, Core Business
Pat Matthews is the Senior Vice President of Core Business activities at Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Pat founded
Webmail.us, a business email hosting company that made Inc. magazine's list of the fastest-growing private companies
in America. In 2007 Rackspace acquired Webmail.us and the two businesses joined forces. From 2007 to 2009, Pat led
the Rackspace mail business and helped grow it to more than 2 million paid mailboxes worldwide.
In January 2010 Pat was promoted to Vice President and General Manager of all Rackspace cloud businesses. In this
role he led Rackspace to become one of the most important companies in the cloud computing industry. He was promoted
to Senior Vice President of the Rackspace Cloud in August of 2010.
Today, Pat oversees core business activities at Rackspace including Product, Worldwide Marketing, and the SMB business
segment.
Pat is a graduate of Virginia Tech. He is an angel investor and advisor in several startup companies. Pat and his
family live in San Antonio, TX.