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Brynne Kennedy

Brynne Kennedy (Brinn-Kennedy; born February 28, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, startup policy leader, author, venture capital investor, Board director and software CEO. A recognized expert on entrepreneurship, gender equality and the talent mobility revolution, starting in 2012 Kennedy founded several leading companies in the work-mobility space, including Move Guides, the first cloud-based system to help multinational companies manage and move global talent, and Polaris Global Mobility, which she later merged into Topia, one of the world's leading HR enterprise software companies. Kennedy is currently co-founder and managing partner of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm BCP Ventures, and sits on the boards of six companies. In 2020, Kennedy ran for US Congress in California's 4th Congressional District, but lost in the general election. She is the author of Flat, Fluid and Fast: Harnessing the Talent Mobility Revolution (McGraw Hill, 2019), a book with good reception from the global business community showing how companies and policy makers could better navigate remote and distributed work.

Early Life and Education
Kennedy was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Katherine Shanahan, a store owner, and Alan Kennedy, a professor at Berkshire Community College. A gymnast from an early age, while attending Yale University Kennedy became an NCAA Division 1 collegiate gymnast, four-time NCAA Varsity Letter winner and two-time Ivy League champion before graduating from Yale with a degree in History. She later told Women's Health, "Throughout childhood and college, gymnastics taught me hard work, tenacity, and maturity." In 2014, she received an MBA from London Business School, with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Management. In her early career, Kennedy lived and worked in the US, Europe and Asia, and speaks five languages, including Mandarin Chinese.

Ventures
Kennedy started her career in investment banking in Asia, working at Lehman Brothers and advising Standard Chartered, on one of the largest IPOs in India's history, the redevelopment of Indira Gandhi International Airport. In 2012, she founded and became CEO of Move Guides, a talent mobility cloud platform helping HR teams move their employees around the world. Kennedy later told Notion that she founded her first talent mobility company after experiencing first-hand the challenges of global relocation, moving from Asia to London to start her MBA, the promise of which "unravelled when I arrived to an apartment with no running water, heat or Internet."

After the company grew to 17 offices worldwide, Kennedy predicted in a 2016 interview with Global Mobility Insider that the global market for human resources mobility management would grow to $200 billion, with a software value of $15 billion, by 2023. She told CNBC that Move Guides was borne of necessity from an increasingly mobile and remote workplace, and urged women to take more risks as entrepreneurs and to consider careers in politics to make a difference. "Hillary Clinton inspired a lot of female leaders and despite not becoming president, she opened up a new dialogue," Kennedy said.

As Move Guides CEO, in 2017 Kennedy acquired Teleport and Polaris Global Mobility and merged the two companies into a new HR enterprise software company, Topia Mobility. Large multinationals with far-flung outposts like Dell and AXA adopted the technology and service platform for relocation and expatriate management, tax and payroll and immigration data, reducing barriers and enabling employees to work from anywhere. Kennedy also launched a philanthropic initiative, Mobility4All, which provides a portion of revenue and employee time to assist individuals fleeing poverty and conflict by moving to new locations.

After selling her interest in Topia in 2019, Kennedy joined forces with venture capitalist Roger Lang at smart society venture capital fund BCP Blitz, where she helped Lang raise $550 million in private equity. She also founded Archibald Ventures, her family office that incubates and advises startups.

With Lang, Kennedy co-founded BCP Ventures, investing in transformational technologies that reinvent foundational industries. In a Hub Culture television interview at the 2023 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kennedy said BCP would be focused on disruptive technologies in food systems. sustainable energy, smart infrastructure and wellness, responding to challenges like food security, emissions reduction, human and resource consumption through unique innovations and decentralization, leading to "clean energy transition" and a path to net zero by 2050" that she said would require "a complete transformation of our global energy supply and technology, a total rethinking of our geopolitical landscape and roughly $100 trillion in investment over the next three decades."

Kennedy sits on the Board of Directors of several companies, including Caban Systems, which makes renewable batteries for telecommunications providers; Greyscale AI, which uses hardware and software using A-I and x-ray vision technology to identify food contaminants; Elite Measurement, which sells technology replacing oil and gas equipment to reduce carbon emissions; Pratexo, which powers smart electrification and energy grids; Ryp Labs, which sells labels, satchels and coatings to protect fruit and vegetables from premature rotting, extend the shelf life of fruit and combat food waste; Aquaprawnics, which raises pathogen-free shrimp without antibiotics, pollutants or other harmful inputs, and Task Human, which provides mentorship, sales coaching and human expertise for employees through video calls.

Politics
In 2020 Kennedy received the Democratic nomination for Congress in California's 4th Congressional District with a platform championing the private sector, entrepreneurship and bipartisanship, receiving the endorsement of former US President Bill Clinton. She lost the election to incumbent Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), but brought visibility to bipartisan policies for innovation. Had she won, Fortune said she would have been the first female tech founder to serve in US Congress. Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Innovation Nation, a Washington, D.C.-based PAC endorsing and supporting political candidates who are leaders in innovation policy and champion startup agendas.

Awards
Kennedy has been recognized as a leading entrepreneur and thought leader. She has won Entrepreneur of the Year in the Women in IT Awards and Women of the Future Awards, London Business School’s Distinguished Entrepreneur Award and Management Today’s 35 Under 35. In 2017, she was named a Workforce Game Changer, one of 25 people changing the HR industry, and recognized with the Meritorious Service Award from the global mobility industry.

Personal
Kennedy lives between New York, Los Angeles and the Berkshires, where she has run in two dozen marathons and is an avid supporter of the arts. She was married to entrepreneur Sam Herber in 2010, but divorced in 2017.

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