Brady Brim-DeForest
Brady serves as Chairman of BluShift.
Brady's passion for building purpose driven organizations spans a twenty-year entrepreneurial career. He currently serves as Managing Partner of Late Stage Capital. Prior to Late Stage, Brady served as CEO of Formula.Monks, the technology solutions division of S4 Capital. He has co-founded over half a dozen successful startups, closed sales over $500 million, and helped global, monolithic organizations recapture their spirit of innovation. Along the way he navigated his companies onto the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies five times, won the Inc. Best Workplace Award, was named to Comparably's list of Best CEOs four years in a row, and was named one of 100 Top US CEO's in the Enterprise Space by CEO Boardroom magazine.
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. He has 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 systems designed for global scale and mission-critical uptime in finance, telecom, media, and healthcare verticals.
An in-demand mentor, speaker, and writer on AI, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the future of work, Brady has more than two decades of experience in product design, organizational transformation, and startup management.
He advises startups and growth stage companies, is an active angel investor, and mentors entrepreneurs in their journey to scale.
He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Royal Geographical Society, among others. He is a regular contributor to Inc., Forbes, and Fast Company.
Brady has a wife and three children and they split time between homes in Texas, Maine, and California.