Richard F. Govatski

Richard (Dick) F. Govatski

Dick Govatski was the Marketing Director for Memotech USA, the period photo above is from "Creative Computing", Volume 10, Issue 6, June 1984, that edition of the magazine featured an excellent article on the MTX Series by John J. Anderson. Dick is seen holding a Double Memory board from a Memotech "HRX Multimedia PC" which is briefly covered in the article.

Dick kindly sent me a much better copy of the "Creative Computing" article than I had on the site, it has now been added to the Memotech Reviews page. A brief summary of Dick's career after leaving Memotech is available on line at The Wall Street Transcript (copied below). More detailed information on his "Telemedicine" company, Net Medical Xpress, can be found from the interview with ceocfo from October 2012.

Dick's career included a spell at Computer Shopper where he hired John Anderson before Anderson left to work for Mac User Magazine prior to his untimely death in the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake.

The Wall Street Transcript (2012)

"Richard F. Govatski is President and Chief Executive Officer of New Mexico Software, Inc.

He founded the company in 1995, after identifying market inefficiencies in how intellectual property owners managed their image assets.

Before New Mexico Software, Mr. Govatski spent 18 years in systems integration and publishing, in sales management and software development.

He led the sales teams for Popular Electronics, Computer Shopper, Shutterbug and MacWeek. He sold numerous solutions for vendors, including Kodak Co., Apple Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Govatski also spent several years in systems development as President of Media Publishing Group and built graphic applications for companies including Ferrari Color, Time Inc., New York Daily News and Getty Images.

After creating the enterprise applications and e-commerce strategy at New Mexico Software, Mr. Govatski took the company public in August 1999. He holds a B.S. in communications from Butler University. "