Kurt Scherer Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Hazelcast is a real-time stream processing platform that lets you build applications that take action on data immediately. Run your real-time capabilities on-premises, at the edge or as a fully managed cloud service.

Fairfax Station, Va, Us

Proud to serve alongside a team of mission-driven leaders to expand and scale this Foundation in order to honor the fallen officers of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise through scholarship and philanthropy.

San Francisco, California, Us

Kevala's partners and customers utilize cloud-based data analytics and visualization platform to predict and plan for a more robust, environmentally sustainable, effective, and safe grid. Kevala is trusted by governments, utilities, and industry with the most sensitive critical infrastructure, market, and address-specific electric consumption and production data.

London, England, Gb

Serve as a Managing Director for early-stage Fund focused on the transformation of critical infrastructure in energy, space, and data privacy. Technology focused. World-class leaders and technologies aligned with goals of creating urban resiliency, sustainability, and inclusiveness are in the strike zone center.

London, England, Gb

Serve in role to optimize and align operations and disciplined focus areas, processes, and metrics across the US, UK, Germany, and Bahrain in investor relations, dealflow and investment transactions, portfolio company growth, governance, compliance and risk, and to help an awesome global team become the best version of itself.

London, England, Gb

Serve as Chief of Staff for André Pienaar, Managing Partner and Founder at C5 Capital, a specialist technology investment group focused on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing.

Rockville, Md, Us

X-energy is leading the advanced nuclear innovation effort to provide clean, safe, affordable, and secure energy. Their Generation IV SMR technology will create modular solutions that cannot melt down and which have no back-end nuclear waste supply chain issues. This solution is fundamentally different than any previous nuclear effort. X-energy has the technology, the team, and the timing to change the world.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Business Executives for National Security is a nationwide network of elite business leaders who are united in the belief that private-sector expertise and best practices help the Department of Defense and other national security agencies execute their missions to keep America secure.

Fairfax, Virginia , Us

Serve as a community leader to help shape and drive an inclusive innovation economy around George Mason university.

Houston, Texas, Us

Building the world's first commercial space station to improve life on Earth and foster possibilities beyond it.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Emergency response data platform that links life-saving data from connected devices with 911 and first responders.

Fulton, Md, Us

Series A. Pioneering data security company protecting data-in-use, using privacy enhancing technologies and homomorphic encryption.

Serve in role to attract Veterans to matching roles in VC/PE and Defense Industrial Base leadership positions.

Lead a global accelerator program to find the very best startups in cyber security, AI, cloud, and space. Work closely with C5 Capital funds to identify early stage talent that may be investable through multiple Funds in the future. Help to drive global ecosystem of innovation partners, mentors, incubators, accelerators to support the best leaders and ideas through connections at the policy, corporate, military, academic, and entrepreneurial levels.

Mclean, Va, Us

Served as first Director of Booz Allen's DC Innovation Center and of its national Innovation Hub network. Personally hired and built diverse team of rockstars to 1) Select and mentor entrepreneurs to work in the Center in order to create and design cutting-edge prototypes and solutions (products and services) for our government and commercial clients; 2) Drive and scale technology solutions across 75+ labs and spaces by working with multiple leaders to help differentiate new and emerging solutions (IoT, c-UAS, communications, sensors, AR/VR and haptic technologies, maker space, and other emerging technologies) to clients; and 3) Accelerate our connections with our partners and alliances (corporate and entrepreneurial) in the local DC innovation community as well as with our innovation hubs across the country.

Mclean, Va, Us

Served commercial and national security clients in their efforts to connect and engage their workforce and their partners. Lead team of experts in different aspects of strategy, technology, and innovation discipline, especially including innovation strategy, product evaluation, and the design and implementation of crowdsourcing programs to increase the volume and diversity of thought for organizations, especially across different business units. Work closely with clients to apply tailored toolsets integrating aspects of design thinking, innovation maturity, and innovation challenge management to help solve their most pressing problems. Select projects include:• Lead growing business to offer full range of Innovation Services to major US government agencies and Fortune 100 companies, including innovation strategy, product and technology strategy, innovation ecosystem design, crowdsourcing and prize-based competitions, and rapid prototyping.• Led stand-up internal team focused on building Booz Allen’s own Culture of Innovation. Designed full range of processes and virtual tools, mechanisms, and incentives to increase innovation engagement of globally-based employees.• Led effort to establish identify and establish relationships with incubators and accelerators in order to identify best practices, lessons learned, and trends in emerging technologies that can be applied to larger organizations and corporations.

Mclean, Va, Us

Strategy and Operations consulting; emphasis on Innovation. Applied commercial best practices across multiple areas of the US Intelligence Community. Heavy emphasis on technology, strategy, innovation, change management, and market analytics.

Mclean, Va, Us

Serve broadly as a strategy consultant across aerospace & defense companies. Worked across United States and United Kingdom. Select industries include:- Led broad set of strategic and operational engagements, including creation of 5-year strategic plan for a US Government agency, multiple customer segmentation analyses for DHS designed to transform focus, and financial analyses to inform strategic decisionmaking for telecom and major weapons manufacturers.- Led multiple engagements, including comprehensive innovation design-driven cost reduction and change program for a large defense company, a multi-year strategic effort to establish and expand open innovation program for US Government agency, a strategic study for the CEO of a $1B business unit of a Top 5 defense contractor, and comprehensive market segmentations and studies for multiple companies and business units.- Led multiple international market studies for companies looking to expand overseas operations. Assessed commercial competitive landscape, business plans, and operational requirements for successful new ventures.

Washington, Dc, Us

Served as a Marine and AH-1W Cobra pilot. East-coast based, two overseas deployments including to Kosovo and Albania in 1999, and to Afghanistan in 2001-02 in the opening chapters of conflict following 9/11. Selected as 1 of 2 Weapons and Tactics instructors from squadron for MAWTS-1 during fall of 1998. Served two tours as squadron intelligence officer and avionics maintenance officer.

Mba, Strategy And Innovation

Bs, Economics, Russian