- Currently, I am building a new division within the world's leading experiential marketing platform, AnyRoad, that focuses on creating lifetime relationships with our brand's best consumers and fans. We leverage our incredible 1st party data and our proprietary industry benchmarking to co-create, design, launch, and scale industry-leading lifetime loyalty strategies that drive product sales, NPS, profitability, and world class advocacy behaviors.If you are a consumer brand and want to drive lifetime loyalty through your best consumers and fans, feel free to reach out to me!

I helped AnyRoad search for their early USPs, business model, and made introductions to talent and investors. I continued to support with customer and partnership introductions and strategic projects post their $47 million dollar Series B, led by BlackRock with participation by their Series A Lead, Andreessen Horowitz.

I support the strategic initiatives for Brinc North America for expansion, sales, and investments.

Post our successful $30M Series B and $100M Web 3.0 fund in late 2021, we've expanded to America and are opening new partnerships and investment opportunities that grow one of the world's fastest growing and largest early-stage venture capital businesses. We look to invest in and support founders through our nine new accelerator programs that are being introduced to founders that are working towards promoting global sustainability, inclusivity and equitability directives. And with over 40% of our startup portfolio hailing from America, we appreciate any introductions to founders and investors in the region.

Brinc is an early-stage venture accelerator that invests in game changing entrepreneurs from around the world. Focused on solving real problems, we source innovative companies from 92 countries, own and operate 11 accelerators in 6 countries and have invested in 110 businesses to date. Brinc is one of the world's most active early stage technology investors.Our programs focus on everything from IoT, Drones, Robotics, FoodTech, Clean Energy and Industrial IoT. We believe that a HUGE part of the problems that need to be solved are physical first and enabled by digital second. We also believe that by investing early and enabling our founders that investors will realize both great returns and be proud with how they spend their money and time. You can learn more about our programs at brinc.io/accelerators Our portfolio of founders are working on everything from bioprinting human cells for cancer research and securing national infrastructure using drones to up cycling food waste into new beverages and empowering the packaged food industry with artificial intelligence. We have 110 investments and have invested in companies from 32 countries. More can be seen at brinc.io/portfolioWe currently operate with offices in Hong Kong, Guangzhou (China), Bahrain, Poznan (Poland), Kochi (India), and Sydney (Australia). We're 66 people strong, speak 17 languages, are from 15 countries and are our founders... global, diverse and driven. You can learn more about our team or apply for working with us at brinc.io/team

Proud member of the Board @ Soundbrenner, my first investment at Brinc. Following one of my lifelong passions for writing and playing music, I've supported the founding team, Florian and Julian, from their initial prototypes all the way through millions of dollars of investment, sales, global distribution of a full suite of music wearables and software solutions. They are now one of the world's largest music tech companies with an incredibly 600,000+ monthly active monthly users, 200,000+ wearable device sales and dozens of industry integrations and 3rd party collaborations.

The Breathonics breathwork ecosystem combines both Web 2 and Web 3 paradigms to help everyday people and top athletes and executive to 'Rest Hard'. Their breathwork training helps our parasympathetic nervous system to handle stress more easily, work with more clarity and simply perform better in every aspect of our lives. I was fortunate enough to be one of Bradley's first investors through Brinc and served alongside him on the board through product development, launch, manufacturing and supply chain design, scientific research, fundraising, and so much more. The most recent focus on a software-only approach has shown just how many people want to work with the power of their breath to get healthier and Bradley has been a joy to work with for so many years.

Emerging Young Entrepreneurs Society (EYES) is the international society for young individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset. EYES brings together these individuals in an environment of trust, friendship and inspiration. EYES organizes global and local events where we encourage both entrepreneurial thinking and entrepreneurial action. eyes international.orgOn the Board, I was responsible for member engagement, including global event design and management, the creation of our first EYES Remote platform during the pandemic, and organizational redesign for our headquarter operations in Europe.

Bay's 2018 speaking tour took him to 16 countries, 28 cities, to speak at 65 events! Bay's global audience is 65,000 and growing fast. He regularly covers topics from corporate innovation and the future of connecting the world to China and Silicon Valley, where he lived for 10 years. Driven to provide value every time he takes the stage, Bay brings his experience as a founder, advisor, and investor to engage all cultures and attendees... from startup founders and investors to corporates and governments around the world. Bay has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, The Motley Fool, Engadget, South China Morning Post and many more and speaks as part of the US State Department and China Speaker's bureaus.

I write about IoT investing and connected hardware technology in Asia, focused on China. Using local language social and media outlets and a team of analysts, I would source top tech stories from China that you couldn't find or understand in the West and distill them into insights that could be used by businesses around the world.Check out my articles here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/baymclaughlin

The largest accelerator in Asia, Chinaccelerator focuses on Mentorship, Money, Being Purpose & Profit driven. A part of the Global Accelerator Network, Chinaccelerator is the first and only PURE mentorship-driven seed funding program in China. The 90-day accelerator program is committed to helping entrepreneurs who are innovating at the cutting-edge of information technology to create successful and investable start-up companies. Participating in Chinaccelerator gives startups enormous validation and access to the best, brightest, most experienced network of mentors which will be with them to help curate and cultivate every aspect of their business.

Supporting Zach as a first-time founder, and a long-time friend, has been an amazing blessing. It allowed me to learn and work alongside one of the sports that's captivated my heart and mind since I was seven years old and also support, what would quickly become, one of the most genuine and heartfelt leaders and entrepreneurs I've ever worked with. Zach, and the Inertia, are a testament to doing well by doing good first. He's grown his passion into an incredible business (one of the top surfing websites globally) and lifestyle and I'm fortunate that I had a small role to play in their journey.

French Press Films specializes in telling your story, PERIOD! Whether you're a Venture Capital firm, a funded technology startup or a Fortune 500 retailer, we have a knack for learning who you are, what you want to portray to the world and making your vision a reality.Clients include Google, Uber, Levi's, Gap, Bluefin Labs (acquired by Twitter), Hearst Magazines, Samsung, Paramount Pictures, Bare Escentuals, Chevron, Flurry and more.

I advise the company on their business hygiene (finance, HR, and opps), growth, and long-term strategy. I also act as the Executive Coach for the four founders.Accomplishments:- 5 new retail store openings- 2X top line revenue growth- First managers sourced, hired, and developed- Successful handoff of new operational systems and standards to the owners- New roles developed and coached until a successful transition for all owners of the business

I trained executives at Google and AirBnb in executive Presence, presentation skills, and strategy development through one on one coaching, offsite facilitation, and on-going learning communities in San Francisco, Tokyo, and Sydney.

I was the first business hire for Intercom and was responsible for doing their first outbound customer development interviews using the Jobs to be Done (JTBD) framework. I worked with Eoghan, the CEO, and Des, Chief Strategy Officer, daily to take my customer interview learnings and translate them into new product features. During implementation, I would work with the engineering team to ensure features were deployed to customer specifications in order to ensure higher LTV and lower CAC for new customers.I joined right after their Series A, led by Freestyle Capital, when they had only 14 employees. Since, they've gone on to raise $250M+ with a current valuation of $1.3B and notable investors like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Chamath Palihapitiya.

As part of the founding team in early 2009, I helped create the global Small to Medium Business to Business development channel (SMB B2B) for Apple (after four years, when I left, the division was 2,000+ employees).During the first two years, my team created what has proven to be the lasting account management and partnership model for my division globally. My team and our strategies still remain #1 in all sales categories globally, even after the majority of the key players have changed.Accomplishments include:- $75M+ in annual sales growing over $350M while at Apple- Sourced, hired, and developed 50+ employees- Created, trained, and rolled out our unique customer acquisition and retention strategy globally to 200+ teams- With more than 30+ VC, Accelerator, and Incubator partnerships my team supported hundreds of the most important startups of our time (Twitter, AirBnB, Yelp!, Square, Dropbox, Medium, Yammer, Pinterest, Uber, etc.).

Created a business around Marakana's proprietary Spark platform. Signed HTC as the first client and later sold the company privately to a firm in Australia.

I was responsible for selling into academic institutions across the west coast for then, Interactyx, a global eLearning platform for hard sciences developed in Europe. This was an outside sales role where I would drive and knock on doors to open deals where I was supported by an inside sales rep. We had moderate success, but the company was eventually broken apart and recreated as a new company a few years later.

I was the first Campus Representative for Apple at William and Mary. My job was to evangelize our educational product offerings to both the student body and the technology leadership across campus. I was responsible for getting William and Mary into the Apple University beta program as well as successfully blocking a 1:1 IBM/Lenovo requirement rollout which opened the door for Apple to break into campus successfully.I was later given two more campuses to cover, The Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences (VIMS) and Christopher Newport University. After a very successful first semester, I was selected to join a five person strategic advisory board to inform Senior Vice President of Apple Education, John Couch (reporting directly to Steve Jobs) of trends emerging in the K-20 space around technology, social media, and buying.