At Alpha Venture Partners, investor in Careem, Coupang, ShieldAI, Apptronik, 2ndFront, RadAI, Socure, Ro Health, Brave Health, Included Health, ZenBusiness, Apollo.io, LiveIntent, Vroom, Cloud Tech Partners, Lime, BrightInsight. Brian originates and evaluates investment opportunities, manages venture and limited partner relationships, and provides product, marketing, strategic partnership, recruiting, financing, and operating expertise to portfolio companies. Brian is a connector, and a serial founder who began his career at Booz & Co, and started his first company, Portfolio Software, in Brooklyn in 1989, and moved it to Cupertino a year later. Brian founded Actioneer in San Francisco in 1994 and Preclick in 2001. Advisor to Pritzker Group.

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Recruited to advise on Brand, Marketing, Business Plans, Product, & Marketing.

Recruited as entrepreneur to manage P&L for Videohub Marketplace, a start-up business at Tremor Video, the largest independent web video ad network. Originated and operated new license deals with domestic and international reseller partners. Shifted strategy from B2SMB to B2B.

Recruited to formulate Knovel’s new product and business development strategy for collaboration, social networking, innovation, math, and foundation services.
 Knovel.com is the leading reference and tool library for engineering and applied science. Knovel sold to Elsevier December 2012 http://bit.ly/WohUqD.

Developed partner strategy and pipeline in NA & EU. Closed deals that increased partner revenue and installs 125% Y/Y. Successfully transitioned Preclick's client base - Walmart, Sams, Costco, CVS, Walgreens - to Smilebox. Expanded retailer and partner relationships in NA & EU.

Founded, developed, and licensed Digital Media Software and Web Applications in 22 languages, that shipped over 100,000,000 co-branded copies world-wide for Hewlett-Packard, Walmart, Costco, Walgreens, Meijers, 3M, Sandisk, CVS, and others. ShutterBug Magazine Top Photo Software 2003. Acquired by Smilebox 2009. www.preclick.com/company/partners.php

Recruited to lead Israel-incubated company, a Priority Content Delivery Network, (like Dropbox) which securely synchronized files and folders instead of using email attachments. Raised $10.5M from Intel, Goldman Sachs, & BRM. Sold to Cadmus Publishing.

Recruited as 7th employee. Within one year, led sale of company to CMGi for 700% return to investors. Led product definition, marketing and business development for 1ClickCharge introduction to market. In first six months, obtained world wide license to MasterCard and signed 30 content deals with NewsCorp, Edgar Online, Hoovers, DowJones, etc.

Best of Palm, Best of Lotus, award-winning Actioneer Software provides for secure natural language interface to access, search and write to e-services and databases and to exchange action objects. Co-authored six collaboration software patents.Responsible for Marketing, Product Management, UX, and Business Development. Co-founded with David Allen (Getting Things Done) and Tom Hagan (graphics pioneer). www.actioneer.com

Co-founded, developed and licensed award-winning contact manager - Dynodex, best Utility - Dynopage, for Mac, Windows and hand-helds. Responsible for Product Management, UX, Marketing, Business Development, and operations. Clients included Apple, Microsoft, AOL, GE, Prodigy, CE, Filofax, Acco, Day-Timer, Day Runner. Sold to Day-to-Day in 1994.

Developed six course curriculum and best practices for Macintosh for global strategy firm, trained 600 partners, MBAs, Analysts. Trained the trainer and transitioned firm from DOS to Apple Macintosh. Attended MBA strategy training.