Here’s a quick bio. Something closer to a resume can be found in this post, or find some details about Me and the VC/PE Worlds, or take a look at my Portfolio, or…
Brian Berliner is an entrepreneur, investor, Open Source pioneer and the creator of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), the most popular source code control product in the world. Brian is currently an early stage investor and Executive Coach. Since 1996, Berliner established three companies with top-tier venture backing including Cassatt Corporation, which builds IT automation and virtualization management software for large enterprises; Allocity (acquired by EMC), which built storage resource management software for Microsoft Exchange servers; and ChannelPoint, which built e-business application software for the insurance and financial services industry before filing for IPO in March 2000. Previously, Berliner was a senior staff engineer for Sun Microsystems and co-founded Sun’s Solaris development site in Colorado. In addition, he was part of the team that built vector-processing supercomputers and took Convex Computer Corporation public in 1986. Berliner holds 10 software patents for network caching file systems and 1 patent for Utility Computing is pending. Brian earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985.
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I am currently pursuing a position as Partner/Principal or Venture Partner with a VC firm in the Bay Area. Please write to me if you would like to chat.
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Contact Brian at bb@brianberliner.com if you:
- Need help finding Venture Capital investors
- Would like me to assist with your Investor Pitch
- Would like me to review your Business Plan
- Need advice on how to structure your next round
- Have an organization that is under-performing
- Have a hole in your Executive Staff
- Would like me to serve on your Board of Directors
- Would like me to serve on your Board of Advisors
- Would like me to do a business/market assessment
- Would like me to do a technology assessment
- Would like me to do a competitive assessment
- Need assistance with M&A preparedness or strategy
