Pat Garrehy

Pat Garrehy is the Founder and Board Member for Rootstock Software and has an extensive background as a software architect and engineer. With over 30 years of management, sales and technical experience, Mr. Garrehy brings a unique blend of analytical focus and business savvy to the table.

As former CEO of Rootstock, Mr. Garrehy applied his extensive background to the development of Rootstock’s powerful and highly agile cloud-based (SaaS) solution. In addition, Mr. Garrehy set the company’s strategic direction and provided overall leadership for the entire management team.

Mr. Garrehy is also the founder and former CEO of Relevant Business Systems, a client-server ERP software provider with an exclusive focus on discrete manufacturing companies. Relevant, which was sold in 2006, remains the most profitable division of the acquirer to date. The software is currently utilized in a number of business operations, including major divisions of Lockheed and Solectron with sales of over one billion dollars.

As a University of California at Berkeley graduate, he holds a BS degree in business and mathematics as well as a MBA in finance from the University of Southern California.