Brian Brandt
Managing Partner
Brian is one of the four heads behind Business Acceleration Partners of Montana. His decades-long career has led him from marketing firms to executive chair, to silicon valley venture capital firm, to consulting Microsoft on key product launches.
Brian Can Help You With:
- Operations Management
- Securing Funding
- Research and Development
- Prototyping
- Prepping a business for sale
- Marketing & Market Research
Brian's many accomplishments can be found below:
- MBA in Engineering and Technology Management from the W. Edwards Deming Institute
- Post-graduate certificate in Total Quality Management from the W. Edwards Deming Institute
- Two-term president of the largest US chapter of the
- International Society for Technical Communication
- Managing partner in an advertising and PR agency
- Ran PR and advertising for Microsoft, Data I/O, Boeing, Weyerhaeuser, and several tech startups
- Marketing manager for a Data I/O—a prominent international electronics company
- Managing partner in a software development company that developed infrastructure banking systems
- Worked directly with the Division President on technology commercialization projects and Total Quality Management implementation for the 5000-person Research and Technology Division of Weyerhaeuser ($8 billion revenue corporation)
- Developed the Stage-Gate technology commercialization process for Boise Cascade's Research and Technology Division ($4 billion revenue corporation)
- Developed the technology commercialization process and proposal development process for the research and technology division of Flow International Corporation (manufacturers of market-leading high-pressure waterjet cutting technology.)
- Over a decade as a marketing and strategy consultant to Microsoft, working on both launch- and competitive response teams for dozens of key Microsoft products
- Worked with over a dozen of the most successful venture capital firms in the country in Silicon Valley, Austin, and New York City
- Served as management, marketing, and product development consultant for over 100 venture-capital-backed startups
- Entrepreneur in residence at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology President of the Center for Business and Economics of the Northern Plains.