PRATEXO - Key Persons
Blaine has been a multi-time CEO, CMO and CPO at both public tech giants and private software and IIoT startups. Most recently he led the Startup Advisor Practice at VC Momenta Partners. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Industrial IoT and AI platform startup VANTIQ whose clients included companies like France's Total, China State Grid, SoftBank Corp, and many others. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has worked extensively across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- International Executive
Borge is an international executive with a broad history in both the industrial and the consumer goods industries. His most recent role was to head up the US launch of a Private Equity-owned (FSN Capital partners, Oslo) portfolio company. Before that, Borge was a co-founder of the med-tech company ECG247 that developed and launched a revolutionary new device for heart monitoring utilizing wireless technologies and AI.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner at BCP Blitz, the Smart Society Venture Capital Fund
Brynne Kennedy is Founding Partner at BCP Blitz, the Smart Society Venture Capital Fund that invests across the US and Europe. Kennedy led BCP's investment in Pratexo and represents the BCP on Pratexo's Board of Directors. Kennedy currently sits on the Boards of five technology companies operating across food/agtech, sustainability and wellness. Prior to founding BCP, Kennedy ran for United States Congress and founded enterprise software company, Topia, which she led as CEO from an idea to global scale. Kennedy has won numerous awards for her entrepreneurial leadership including "Entrepreneur of the Year" in the Women in IT Awards, CloudNOW Awards, Stevie Awards and Women of the Future Awards. She is also the recipient of London Business School's Distinguished Alumna Award. Kennedy holds a B.A. from Yale University and an MBA from London Business School. Growing up, she was a national gymnast in the United States.
Thomas has been an active investor, entrepreneur, and Business advisor for almost 20 years. He is the business architect that connects the dots between companies, markets, people, and capital. He invests in "deep tech", disruptive technologies and "do good" companies and help them scale and implement sound global strategies.