# Justin Talerico

> Justin Talerico is the CEO of Automox, a Boulder, Colorado company building cloud-native autonomous endpoint management software. He stepped into the top job in May 2025 after four years as the company's chief marketing officer, a stretch in which he helped quadruple growth. A lifelong builder who started coding at age nine, Talerico co-founded the interactive content platform ion interactive in 2007 and sold it to ScribbleLive in 2017, and later held leadership roles at Linux Academy and A Cloud Guru. He and his wife Anna run Beacon9, a SaaS best-practices advisory.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Automox
- **Organizations:** Automox, Beacon9, ion interactive, A Cloud Guru, Linux Academy, ScribbleLive
- **From:** New York, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BS, Advertising, University of Florida
- **Known for:** Co-founded ion interactive and scaled it to two consecutive Inc. 500/5000 rankings before a 2017 acquisition by ScribbleLive., Helped quadruple Automox's growth during four years as Chief Marketing Officer., Held leadership roles at Linux Academy (acquired by A Cloud Guru in 2019) and A Cloud Guru (acquired by Pluralsight in 2021).

## Career timeline

- **1992** — Founded his first company, a digital marketing communications firm.
- **1996** — The firm becomes 100% web-focused.
- **1998** — Evolves into a tech-enabled services firm running a proprietary web CMS for clients like Samsung and Fujitsu.
- **2007** — Co-founds ion interactive and launches its marketing SaaS platform.
- **2010** — ion interactive lands at #202 on the Inc. 500.
- **2011** — ion interactive ranks #526 on the Inc. 5000, with customers including Dell and DHL.
- **2017** — ion interactive is acquired by ScribbleLive; Talerico exits.
- **2021** — Joins Automox as Chief Marketing Officer.
- **2025** — Becomes Chief Executive Officer of Automox, effective May 15.

## Achievements

- Co-founded ion interactive and scaled it to two consecutive Inc. 500/5000 rankings before a 2017 acquisition by ScribbleLive.
- Helped quadruple Automox's growth during four years as Chief Marketing Officer.
- Held leadership roles at Linux Academy (acquired by A Cloud Guru in 2019) and A Cloud Guru (acquired by Pluralsight in 2021).
- Promoted to CEO of Automox in May 2025 alongside fresh capital and an accelerated product roadmap.
- Co-founded Beacon9, a SaaS business best-practices advisory.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Named CEO of Automox, effective May 15, as the company announced fresh capital and rapid product innovation.
- **2025-03** — Automox launched Automox Analytics during his leadership push into enterprise readiness.
- **2026-01** — Appeared on the Autonomous IT live show sharing candid perspectives on the state of IT heading into 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://www.automox.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justintalerico/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/justintalerico
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justintalerico

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Last updated: 2026-07-16