Benjamin M. Brink Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

St. Charles, Mo, Us

Full time faculty teaching graduate and undergraduate business and management classes at the Plaster College of Business and Entrepreneurship. In both is current full time faculty role and as an adjunct, his courses include: Data Analytics; Entrepreneurship and Growth (course author); Entrepreneurial Finance; Small Business Management; New Venture Initiation (course author); Principals of Supply Chain Management; Topics Course: Gig Entrepreneur (course author); Topics Course—Build Products Customers Want (course co-author); and Principals of Management. Developed two graduate and four undergraduate entrepreneurship courses, a course in innovation, and a course in product development.

Manchester, Nh, Us

Part-time adjunct instructor teaching online graduate business and management classes to a diverse group of online learners. Courses include MBA courses: Strategic Opportunity Management (MBA capstone course); Innovation and Strategy for High Performance Organizations; Leading People and Organizations; Capstone course; Business Environment, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Subject matter expert on team tasked with developing new, competency-based online MBA program and the course, Innovation and Strategy in High Performance Organizations.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Adjunct Full Professor (part time) teaching graduate and undergraduate business and management classes at the Walker School of Business and Technology to a diverse group of adult learners, including active-duty military and civil service employees. Currently teaching the following courses: Management Strategy; Operations and Project Management; Operations Management; Supply Chain and Business Processes; Healthcare Statistics; Management; and two seminars—Ethical Leadership and The Lean Startup. Brink is an adjunct representative to the Webster Faculty Assembly and a member of several faculty committees: Graduate Council, 2022-present, 2016-2018, and 2019-2019; Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2016-2019; and International Studies Committee, 2016-2019.Senior Director Military Campus Operations (full time) Directed operations for Webster University’s online military and veteran students and for approximately 30 on-base military campuses; developed innovative for-credit and non-credit offerings to support the military market. In this role he was responsible for: efficient and effective management of campuses; quality initiatives for improvements in student and customer service; development and implementation of management systems; coordination and scheduling on ground with online and web-connected courses; reorganization initiatives and staffing; student recruiting initiatives and coordination with university marketing efforts; business development and agreements with military, government, academic, and corporate organizations.

Brink provides corporate mentoring, advisory services, board of director and advisor membership, corporate partnering expertise, and executive management for technology and growth enterprises. Recent clients include: a major defense contractor; security technology company; local charitable foundation; early-stage electronic systems company; medical analytics software company; and major private equity firm. Tested experience includes all areas of entrepreneurship—enterprise formation; finance; organizational development; operations; product and strategic marketing; and strategy. Recent project (2023) included assisting and advising the start-up of the U.S. Afghan Chamber of Commerce.

Little Rock, Arkansas, Us

Part-time adjunct instructor currently teaching undergraduate business management courses at the Mark Skousen School of Business to a diverse group of adult learners, including active duty military, veterans, and returning students. Currently teaching or have taught the following online courses: Entrepreneurship (course author), Business Policy and Strategy, International Management, Multinational Management, Performance Management, Marketing Analysis, Quality Management, Introduction to Quality Management, Business and Society, Employment Law, Organizational Behavior, and Introduction to Business.

Austin, Tx, Us

Brink spearheaded the effort to structure company, set up operations, and roll together three key assets: PotentiaMED intellectual property, data, installed base, and expertise in the cardiac space; cancer analysis tools licensed from Washington University; and an analytical toolset developed for sports. By combining domain expertise with advanced analytics products, Potentia Systems is developing risk-adjusted, proprietary outcomes information for these fields. The firm hopes to build value and competitive market barriers by assembling significant data sets and analytic capabilities in these fields. (Potentia Systems, formed in December 2013, now renamed PotentiaMetrics, is the successor company to PotentiaMED--Brink held the position of Managing Director, while structuring the new corporate entity).

Chesterville, Mo, Us

Founding partner of Carthage Intellectual Capital Management, LLC, a firm that assists clients in development of monetizing strategies for intellectual property such as sale/license-back, out-licensing, and investment transactions. Brink sold his partnership in October 2013, but continues as an outside adviser to the firm.

Washington, Dc, Us

Captain (O-6), USN (Ret.), Information Dominance Warfare Officer (Intelligence)Commanded Navy Intelligence Reserve Region Southwest. NIRR SW, one of the largest and most dispersed region within the Navy Intelligence Reserve Command, with nearly 700 sailors serving in over 30 reserve units from Hawaii to Colorado. Mobilized Oct. 2007 through Jan. 2009. Senior US Navy Officer at ISAF HQ he led over 350 sailors deployed there. A “key contributor to the planning, negotiation, and initiation of strategically significant coordinated operations along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan,” Brink was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and recommended for promotion to Flag.Commanded four Reserve Units during Navy career. Member Navy Reserve since discharge from active duty in 1977, with significant periods of mobilization during reserve career. Brink reached the enlisted rank of Quartermaster First Class before receiving his commission in 1980. Personal decorations include: Bronze Star Medal; Meritorious Service Medal (2); Navy Commendation Medal (2); and Navy Achievement Medal (2).

Washington, Dc, Us

Recruited to bring his technology company turnaround experience to the government to ensure the successful ramp to production of the new US biometric passport, Brink led the USGPO Secure and Intelligent Documents Business Unit, guiding the agency’s businesses for e-Passports; smartcards; PKI (Public Key Infrastructure); and document transfer and authentication. Under Brink’s leadership the USGPO brought the e-passport into production, growing its passport business from $26M in 2006 to over $390 M 2007, while at the same time implementing new technologies, transforming the product from a printed booklet to an electronic smartcard system in book format. By early 2008 the e-passport accounted for over half of the agency’s expected revenues. (On military leave after Oct. 2007).

Advised start-up and early stage companies in St. Louis. Part time CEO at AP Materials, a start-up nano-technology company with technology licensed from Washington University, to assess state of company and save it if possible—after the resignation of its CEO and two senior executives left the company in extremis. He immediately cut expenses, redirected efforts to establish customer relationships, and raised interim capital from existing investors. Brink remained part-time CEO until having closed the sale of the company’s assets to a major corporation in August 2007.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Co-founder in 2002 and Chief Executive Officer since incorporation in 2003, Brink successfully closed the first three capital rounds for total funding of $8M and built the team to over 30 personnel. Led development of products greatly increasing the speed of search and analysis of unstructured data by using a combination of data-adjacent accelerators and reconfigurable logic. In 2005, the Company rolled out its initial sales force and marketing team and gained traction in the intelligence and financial services market spaces. Markets/applications included: intelligence; financial services; datamarts; healthcare; scientific and medical research; corporate servers; and storage networks.

Frederiksberg, Dk

Under Brink’s leadership, TEC grew from $1M to $8M in sales/$20M in backlog, while maintaining profitability. Brink led the firm’s evolution from a small engineering design firm, to a manufacturer of proprietary and custom ICs, winning two back-to-back financial performance awards from the Fabless Semiconductor Association. Brink secured TEC’s first significant outside investment of $4.5M from a major European semiconductor company. More recently that company increased its investment in preparation for eventual acquisition. In mid-2001Brink stepped aside as CEO to make way for the new investor’s management team, resigning from the board at the end of his term in November 2001.

Brink founded and ran HQTP’s European practice and ran the firm’s corporate partnering joint venture with SRI, International. Directing the joint venture team, he led a three-year client relationship with British Sugar in its US acquisition efforts. Assisted large industrial clients acquire technology from, and invest in, small and medium sized companies; Managed U.S. and Asian joint ventures; assisted smaller firms in capital formation and strategic partnering. Brink successfully ran turn-around efforts for two firms invested in by Lockheed Corp. While at HQTP, Brink took management positions in the following companies: MDB Systems, Inc.-COO, Board Member; Alpharel, Inc., CEO, Board Member; Superconductor Applications, Inc., Founder, CFO, Board Member

Directed successful turn-around efforts for $30M electronics company—replaced CEO; repositioned sales and marketing strategies, doubled sales, tripled backlog, regained control of expenses and cash, restructured operations and strategy, and returned company to profitability in a one year period. Recruited successor CEO.

While at HQTP, ran turn-around effort for this $12M public electronics company, doubling its backlog and trimming its expenses significantly.

Key member of internal turn-around team, Brink: built effective production control department; reorganized customer order management; re-implemented order management ystems; created master scheduling function; directed operations and strategic planning; implemented manufacturing planning and factory automation systems. Rebalanced company's production inventory, recovering over $160M in badly needed cash.

New York, Us

Managed growth of new departments and development of new planning and control systems. Directed worldwide inventory control. During scale back of company during late 1983 and early 1984, directed the phase out of five departments; directed materials management for the shutdown of several overseas plants.

Mba, Finance And Operations

Ms, Operations Research

Doctor Of Technology

Graduate Certificate, Systems Engineering

Graduate Certificate, Applied Data Analytics

Mss, Strategic Studies

Bs, Mathematics

Real Estate

High School, General Studies