Bradley Reynolds

Bradley Reynolds

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Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and SVP of Artificial Intelligence
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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  • Expedient
    Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and SVP of Artificial Intelligence
    Expedient
    Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 5 months)
  • DeepLearningAI
    DeepLearning.AI Ambassador
    DeepLearningAI
    Oct 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)
    Local ambassador for DeepLearning.AI, a site focused on AI/ML and founded by Andrew Ng, a pioneer of AI.

    In coordination with Ted Troxell and the current Cleveland AI Meetup, we will be putting on some local Northeast Ohio AI events co-branded of DeepLearning. This will get attendees some benefits like discounted courses. DeepLearning.AI is a great resource location that creates courseware for folks wanting to learn technical details about AI and machine learning. I'm honored to have been selected
  • Expedient
    Co-founder, Senior Vice President - Artificial Intelligence
    Expedient
    Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 2 months)
    Expedient is focused on simplifying the operational deployment of AI infrastructure for enterprises. We package the hardware and software required to offer safe, scalable, and fault-tolerant production AI workloads. Our goal is to abstract the complicated AI components so that organizations can focus on business logic and business outcomes. Let us be your AI Experts.

    Overall responsibility for Expedient's GTM Enterprise AI strategy and implementation.

    ● Inference Infrastructure for AI / GenAI
    ● Fine-tuning mechanization
    ● AI Orchestration
    ● AI-ready Data Architecture
    ● Curation of AI technologies/models into service stack
    ● AI Partner Alliance
    ● Data Governance for AI
  • Yellowfin Holdings
    AI Consultant - Enterprise LLM
    Yellowfin Holdings
    Feb 2022 - Current (4 years 9 months)
    Helping Enterprises create Private ChatGPTs so they can harness the power of Large Language Models while protecting confidential company information.

    Areas of Service:

    ● General AI strategic planning - Map out quick hits and long term plans
    ● LLM Strategy / Planning - What is the current landscape? how does it comply with data governance requirements
    ● Vector Database Design/Planning/Implementation (Pincone/Milvus/Elastic/Weaviate/ChromaDB and others)
    ● Language Model pretraining/fine-tuning. Options to use public or proprietary/internal models.
    ● Chat interface design/implementation/UX/UI (Chatbot)
    ● Central Orchestration (LangChain/LLamaIndex)
    ● Datastores/Data Lakes (Databricks, VAST,
  • Expedient
    VP of Strategic Business Initiatives
    Expedient
    Apr 2020 - Sep 2021 (1 year 6 months)
    Expedient is one of the leading national cloud and datacenter providers positioned between the build-your-own providers like AWS/Azure and self-hosting. I reported directly to the CRO/CSO with a responsibility for evaluating and implementing plans that would affect the business in a material fashion. Many items were cross functional and spanned either the Sales/Marketing organization or the entire organization.
    • Responsible for driving material strategic projects primarily on the revenue-generating side of the business with an additional concentration on corporate development work.
    • OKR: Implemented OKR management system across the entire business to improve strategic alignment and quantitative accountability. Selected a
  • ExpandMyReachio
    CEO
    ExpandMyReachio
    Aug 2017 - Apr 2023 (5 years 9 months)
    ExpandMyReach helps businesses identify and engage website prospects at the top of the marketing funnel.
    • Designed and implemented software architecture to identify and engage anonymous website visitors.
    • Sold first 30 clients (ARPU $750)
    • Created over 500M identity graphs of multi-device relationships.
    • Implemented an AI/ML system to employ fuzzy logic in identifying prospects based on incomplete information.
    • Created integrations with various lead-engagement tools like Pardot, Hubspot, Outreach, Salesloft, Salesforce
    • Created integrations with ad networks (Google, Microsoft, Adroll, and others) to programmatically deliver display advertisements to the identified prospects.
  • North Coast Ventures
    Member / LP
    North Coast Ventures
    Jul 2015 - Current (11 years 4 months)
    North Coast Angel Fund (NCAF) is a contributed capital and “sidecar” pre-seed investment fund with a focus on early-stage technology investments. Our membership consists of over 180 of the region’s leading investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders who are dedicated to accelerating early-stage ventures.North Coast Angel Fund’s members play an active role by generating deal flow, serving on due diligence teams, working with portfolio companies, or serving on the Investment Screening and Executive Committees. Through this involvement, our goal is to provide a supportive environment for our portfolio companies and ultimately enhance the performance of our Fund.Northeast Ohio has a long tradition of active and successful angel investing, bu
  • Securableio
    Chief Executive Officer
    Securableio
    Jun 2015 - Oct 2017 (2 years 5 months)
    Securable.io was one of the leading cybersecurity education companies creating coursework used to test client employees on a recurring basis to ensure security posture compliance. It was acquired by KnowBe4 in 2017.
    • Started company as a hosted SIEM, pivoted to cybersecurity education platform.
    • Exited to KnowBe4, a leader in the cybersecurity education space.
    • Sold 20 of the first 50 customers
    • Built a team of 18, half development and half sales/marketing.
    • Coded first version of the Securable dashboard as well as the backend phishing testing module.
    • Pivoted the software development team to an education course
  • M
    Co-Founder, President and CEO
    Mongoose Metrics
    Sep 2007 - Mar 2015 (7 years 7 months)
    Mongoose Metrics was an enterprise provider phone call tracking services. Using its patent pending technology, Mongoose connected online activities and marketing spend to phone call conversions, allowing its customers to calibrate advertising spend to maximize return.
    • Organically built $15M software-based marketing technology business from inception mid-eight figure exit to strategic acquirer IfByPhone and an IRR of over 100%.
    • At sale, gross margins were 90% and EBITDA was 40%
    • Built a robust agency channel that accounted for 95% of our new revenue without requiring any partner compensation.
    • Created the first industry integrations with analytics platforms like Google Analytics and Omniture SiteCatalyst
    • Cre
  • B
    Chairman
    BER Holdings LLC
    Jan 2005 - Current (21 years 10 months)
    BER Holdings invests in early to mid-stage technology companies focused on delivering telephony or SaaS products.
  • Expedient Communications
    CEO and Founder
    Expedient Communications
    Jan 2001 - Dec 2005 (5 years)
    Expedient is a national cloud and datacenter provider servicing 14 physical markets. It fills the gap between build-your-own cloud providers like AWS/Azure and self-hosting.
    • Built a $30M ARR datacenter, access, and cloud-computing business primarily through distressed acquisition. Sold the business in 2005 to a strategic acquirer, Landmark Communications, at an 80% IRR.
    • Founded as US VoiceData in 2001
    • In 2002 purchased substantially all a venture-backed firm Expedient capitalized at >$100M via US Bankruptcy process. Divested of certain tangible property immediately after acquisition to pay back the entire purchase price. Re-branded as Expedient.
    • In 2002, Purchased 1/3 of the customers and fiber plant of
  • I
    CTO
    Internet Access Group
    Jan 1997 - Dec 1999 (3 years)
    IAG was one of the first business internet providers in the Midwest. Created through a merger with CICNet, one of the 7 original NSFnet networks CICnet. IAG one of the largest networks in the Midwest (PA, OH, MI, IN, IL) with points of presence in over 10 major metros and hundreds of smaller towns. Serviced many of the Big 10 universities and Fortune 500 companies in the region.
    • Built and ran the network and server infrastructure of the largest commercial internet service provider in the Midwest.
    • At its peak, had over 1,000 leased line customers, 50,000 dialup customers and 100 colocation customers.
    • Integrated the purchase of one of the original NSFNet networks CICNet which included many institutions and Fortune 500
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  • Case Western Reserve University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Case Western Reserve University
    Jan 1996 - Dec 1998 (3 years)
  • M
    High School Diploma
    Mentor HS
    Jan 1993 - Dec 1996 (4 years)
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      Case Weatherhead 100 #1 Fastest Growing Company In Northeast Ohio
      Case Weatherhead School of Management
      Dec 2014
      Mongoose Metrics experienced over 6000% revenue growth from 2009 to 2013. This ranked it as the #1 fastest growing company in Northeast Ohio during this time period. The Case Weatherhead School of Management recognized Mongoose Metrics for this achievement. Mongoose Metrics was sold in 2014 to Ifbyphone.
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      Crain's Cleveland 40 Under 40
      Crains Cleveland
      Oct 2010
    This is a community-created genome.