Brady Brim-DeForest

Brady is a serial entrepreneur, author, digital pioneer, and technologist on a mission to transform the future of innovation. He is CEO & Managing Partner at Late Stage Capital, and serves as Chairman of BluShift Aerospace. He is a co-founder of Monks, where he served as CEO of the Technology Services practice, Formula.Monks. He has co-founded six successful startups, closed sales worth over $500 million, and helped global, monolithic organizations reorganize for innovation. An in-demand mentor, speaker, and writer on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, and diversity, Brady has more than 20 years of experience in product design, brand strategy, and startup management. Brady helped pioneer the application of lean product design, Agile development, and autonomous, self-empowered teams within the Enterprise and has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies implement radical new processes that enable them to design, build, and ship competitive products at startup speeds. Across the course of his career, Brady led platform and product architecture for services that power enterprise-scale technology solutions for customers like AT&T, Apple, American Express, Caterpillar, Cisco, Disney, Fox , Nielsen, Ubisoft and more — including software systems designed for global scale and mission-critical uptime in finance, telecom, media, and healthcare verticals. Brady has spoken at numerous conferences in his fields of expertise, including NATPE, NAB, Digital Hollywood, DMA, NextTV, OMMA, IoT Security Summit, Act One, Cannes, CREtech, Revenue, and NxtStage, and he has guest lectured at both UCLA and USC on topics including product design, entrepreneurship, and digital innovation. Brady is an elected Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.. Brady Brim-DeForest attended the University of Southern California.