Brian is a startup evangelist, advisor, and angel investor. He is the director for Startup Grind DC and Executive-In-Residence at the AOL Fishbowl Labs, which is the premiere startup incubator in the Washington DC area. He is also the Director of Product at Real Time Cases, an edtech startup that connects university classrooms to company boardrooms.

He was also formerly the global COO of Startup Grind, which is the one of the largest hi-tech startup communities in the world with over 1,000,000 startup entrepreneurs in 200 cities.

Prior to Startup Grind, he has over 18 years professional experience in web/online/mobile product development. He has experience in developing innovative consumer and enterprise products and services. Brian has started three previous startups – Logistics Information Technology, VA Care, and Securva. Notably VA Care, an IT health company, had over $20 million in total revenues.

He has a BS in Information Systems/Policy & Management from Carnegie Mellon University.