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Stephen Rich
managing partner

Stephen is a serial intrapreneur, inventor, investor, seasoned operations manager and expert in corporate strategy & innovation programs. Stephen spent most of his career as a change agent driving breakthroughs across a wide spectrum of disciplines including engineering, user experience design, operations, and corporate incubation.

As a serial intrapreneur, he spent time both leading ventures and as an investment director where he mentored venture leads and developed innovative approaches to new business incubation at Intel Corporation.

Currently, he has ventured out on his own as an entrepreneur and co-founder of 12 Bridges Inc. while continuing to consult on corporate incubation as part of his consulting company BRI Associates.

Jim Bodio
managing partner

Jim is a technology business leader with over 30 years of experience in new product and new business development. Prior to co-founding BRI, he spent almost two decades in Intel’s New Business Initiatives group. As an Investment Director there, he shaped and managed a portfolio of new business ventures for Intel as well as continuously improved the effectiveness of the overall new business incubation process. He also served several years as a “serial intrapreneur,” as the founder and general manager of several internal new business ventures including location-based gaming service platform, Intel’s first wireless digital media adapters, embedded media processors for digital TVs, and image sensors/processors & embedded camera modules for mobile and machine vision applications.

As a Director of Strategy and New Business Development in Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, Jim lead the development of software and service strategy, architecture and new technologies to enable new customer segments and business model innovation within the mobile market. He also served in Intel’s Internet and Communications Group in capacities ranging from marketing communications to product and product line management for such products as network application servers, highly integrated Internet servers, and wide area networking and Internet access router systems.

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Tom Calvert
Senior Associate

Specializing in stage gate business consulting specializing in corporate innovation, new business growth, and business and product strategy development. Employing wide range of tools and experiences to ensure organizations growth via new business models or opportunities adjacent to their core business through internal business incubators or dedicated innovation organizations or wanting to establish such capabilities. Tom’s background and experiences range from starting, managing, and creating appropriate exits of numerous internal business ventures ranging from payments, logistics, to healthcare. Tom’s background also includes venture capital investing, A.I. Ethics and sales channel development, and Internet of Things Product Management and Ecosystem Development.

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