Speakers

Brett is the President and Co-Founder of Fonzi, your personal AI recruiter backed by Lightspeed Ventures, and Charge Ventures, a purveyor of premium pre/seed venture capital based in Brooklyn, NY. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches applied machine learning.

A serial entrepreneur, Brett has spent his entire career building or investing in technology startups, including stints as an EIR @PrimaryVC (NYC-based seed stage fund with >$100MM AUM), Co-Founder @Kumospace (virtual offices), Co-Founder @Switchapp (mobile recruiting), Co-Founder @Sonar (pioneering location-based social network), Director of Investments @Appfund (NYC-based incubator and seed stage fund), and @Vice (the multi-billion dollar media company). Brett and his companies have received awards such as Ad: Tech Best Mobile Startup and TechCrunch Disrupt Runner Up and have been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, Huffington Post, Fast Company, The Atlantic, TIME, Financial Times, and Ad Age. He began his career on Wall Street as an equity research analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners.

Outside of technology, Brett has published his Fulbright research in Harvard Business Review, founded an indie rock band, started a non-profit, and sailed 6,000 miles on a 30ft sailboat. He graduated from Dartmouth College and proudly hails from Ocean City, MD.