Patrick Joseph McGovern

Patrick Joseph McGovern Biography

Patrick Joseph McGovern, Jr. (born August 11, 1937) is an American businessman, he is chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG), a company that includes subsidiaries in technology publishing, research, event management and venture capital.

He was listed on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans in March 2013 as having a net worth of $4.7 billion.

Forbes magazine claims he earned a scholarship by designing an unbeatable tic-tac-toe program (now a trivial programming task, but no mean feat in the 1950s). He worked at the MIT student newspaper The Tech on the features staff during his sophomore year. McGovern received a degree in course 7, or biology/life sciences, from MIT, in 1959.

For a time, he was an editor of Computers & Automation magazine; founded, published and edited by Edmund C. Berkeley. McGovern started International Data Corporation (IDC) with a friend, Fred Kirch, in 1964, which produced a computer industry data base and published a newsletter, EDP Industry & Market Report. McGovern started the weekly newspaper Computerworld in 1967.

He has been divorced once, has four children, and lives in Atherton, California and Hollis, New Hampshire.

McGovern and his second wife Lore Harp McGovern gave MIT $350 million to found the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. He is a trustee of MIT. He also serves on Society for Science & the Public's board of trustees.

In May, 2012 Mcgovern had open heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.

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