Brian D. Owen
Executive Chairman at Dragonflyai, the Creative Intelligence Platform Experienced Strategic Advisor & 7-time company President & CEO
Greater Boston
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Chairman
2022 - Current
Dragonfly is trusted by over 70 global brands including Reckitt, CocaCola, Unilever, Pepsico, Danone, Bacardi, Colgate, Mars, Nestle, J&J and others. Dragonfly’s AI platform optimizes the quality and effectiveness of visual content by delivering instant actionable insight, and on-demand creative testing and analytics, at scale, across any format, channel, or marketplace providing customers a significant and measurable ROI.
President & CEO, Board Chair/Director, CEO/Executive team Mentoring, and Operating Advisory roles
2001
CEO (full time and interim), Executive Board Chair/Director, CEO/Management team Mentoring, and Operating Advisory roles with more than 25 enterprise SaaS software companies overseeing numerous financings, multiple acquisitions, and 17 Exits to both financial and strategic buyers. Representative companies include: Dragonfly AI (London) AI-based Predictive Attention Platform with Guinness & Foresight 2022 - Present Mobilus Labs (London) Voice Communication Platform with Chevron & Vinci VC 2022-2024 Full Circle Insights Martech Attribution and Analytics with Aligned VC 2015-2023 StorySlab Sales Enablement Solution with Armory Square 2019-2022 Sale to BTC Gryphon Technologies Sales Performance Management with Sverica 2020-2021 R4 Technologies AI for CPG and Retail with Priceline Founders 2019-2020 ProcessUnity GRC 3rd Party Risk Management with Long Ridge 2018-2021 Sale 13x to Marlin Equity Beqom Compensation Management (Switzerland) with Goldman Sachs 2018-2019 Centric Software PLM with Oak and Fung Capital 2004-18 Sale 8x to Dassault Cloud TP Cloud Migration Svcs with Oak and AWS 2014-18 Sale 5x to HPE Mojix Blockchain/IoT for Omnichannel Retail with Oak 2016-18 Recapitalization Lecorpio IP Management with M2O 2015-17 Sale 10x to Anaqua
President and CEO
2023 - 2024
RightHand Robotics™ is the leading provider of robotic piece-picking solutions for efficient and predictable order fulfillment. Their state-of-the-art RightPick™ 3 system handles a wide variety of items and is designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing fulfillment processes. The piece-picking solution combines an intelligent gripper, a vision system, and control software as a form of hand, eye, coordination – providing accountability for picking success. Driven by RightPick AI, the modular system leverages machine learning across the fleet to continuously improve picking in a variety of workflows, enabling supply chain managers to predictably increase productivity in distribution centers around the world.
RightHand Robotics provides end-to-end solutions that reduce the cost of e-commerce order-fulfillment of electronics, apparel, grocery.
Raised $101,291,107.00 from Zebra Ventures, Google Ventures, EPSON X Investment, F-Prime Capital, Safar Partners, Menlo Ventures, THL, SoftBank Vision Fund, Future Shape and Global Brain Corporation.
CEO and President
2020 - 2022
Bookings grew 300% to $24M with such customers as the FDA, Bosch, Siemens, Raytheon, Merck, IBM Watson Health, and Point 72. Closed large global strategic deal that resulted in smaller surviving entity. Customers focus resulted in 100% customer satisfaction. Repositioning produced leadership status at Gartner and Forrester. Recruited by Founders to respond to severe COVID downturn. CSI’s Data Fabric and Knowledge Graph OLAP solutions facilitate enterprise digital transformations at scale.
President
2019 - 2020
r4 is the pioneer in cross-enterprise AI. Organizations across multiple industries use r4’s platform to unlock growth opportunities trapped in and between enterprise silos, systems, and processes. Recruited by Series B Private Equity investor Pilot Growth to assess company circumstances and secure new Series C financing in 2019 Started working with this innovative Artificial Intelligence SaaS software company as a member of their Leadership Advisory Board Recruited as President and developed a business plan to quadruple ARR and reach profitability within 18 months Led fundraising efforts and secured a Series C Term Sheet from existing PE investors Collaborated with the BoD, investors, and CFO, to secure debt concessions leveraging new Series C
Chairman and acting CEO
2018 - 2019
Recruited by Eden Capital Private Equity to lead the integration of two SaaS software companies: Compass, a provider of sales automation solutions (Boise, ID), and Tour de Force, a provider of CRM, Business Intelligence and sales force automation (Findlay, OH). Managed the alignment, integration, and restructuring of the leadership team of this profitable company.
Chairman, President & CEO
2013 - 2016
Recruited as Executive Chairman by Ed Glassmeyer, Founder of Oak Investment Partners After Global Ops review became CEO to restructure this ~$50M computer storage company Headcount was reduced by 45% to facilitate organizational rebuilding Go-To-Market strategy was focused/narrowed and eliminating the direct sales teams in favor of distributor and reseller partners New management team was recruited (VP US Sales, GM INTL Sales, VP HR) or promoted (COO, VP Marketing, VP Services) Successful recapitalization around a new Hype-Converged cloud architecture completed in H2 2016 led by new PE firm Based in Colorado, the organization has offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa and has a proven installation of more than 7,000 units across 1,200+ customers worldwide.
General/Operating Partner
2000 - 2015
Masthead’s focus was on investments in enterprise application SW, security software, and digital advertising platform companies Operating Partner focused on Sales, Marketing, GTM, Product/Market fit, and technology innovation Led recap of Centric Software. Dassault acquired 51% in 2018 at a $500M+ valuation Notable exits: Centric, Tacoda (sold to AOL), Tremor Video (Nasdaq: TLRA), AEP (sold to Ultra Electronics), BitPipe (sold to TechTarget), and World Wide Packets (sold to Ciena)
President and CEO
1997 - 2000
Filed for an Initial Public Offering leading to the sale of company to SunGard (NYSE:SDS) Quadrupled the revenue run-rate in two years while transitioning from a loss to profitability Relocated corporate HQ from Paris to Boston Revenues grew from <$10M to ~$40M decalog was the leading provider of Straight-Through-Processing (STP) front office asset management solutions to the world’s largest global asset managers, including CitiGroup, Goldman Sachs, AXA Equitable Group, and FORTIS. Relocated corporate HQ from Paris to Boston and recruited a world class executive management team with regional offices in Boston, New York, London, Paris and Tel Aviv.
President and CEO
1992 - 1997
Completed a very successful Initial Public offering (IPO) that was 24 times oversubscribed. Hired as the company’s first outside CEO following Greylock's investment. Successfully led the company through critical stages of corporate growth and development. 20 consecutive profitable quarters while International revenue contribution expanded to >50%. Revenue grew from <$10M to ~$50M and market cap exceeded $400M. While CEO, MapInfo was ranked #23 on Inc's list of the 500 Fastest Growing Companies and became the dominant worldwide provider of Geographic Decision Support Systems (GIS) and Location Based Services (LBS) for business. With product offerings in 58 countries and 23 languages we achieved a greater than 50% global market share.
MapInfo develops desk-top mapping applications, map and demographic data products, and many web-based applications.