Brady Brim-DeForest
Chief Executive Officer
Serial entrepreneur and technologist on a mission to transform the future of innovation.
Brady is the Chief Executive Officer of Formula.Monks, co-founder at Media.Monks, and the Managing Partner at Halmos Ventures.
Brady helped pioneer the application of agile development, lean product design, and autonomous teams at Enterprise companies, enabling global-scale institutions to design, build, and ship competitive products at startup speeds. He’s led technology solutions for clients like AT&T, American Express, Caterpillar, Cisco, Disney, Fox, Nielsen, and Ubisoft, as well as platform and product architecture that powers numerous Fortune 500 companies across the finance, telecom, media, and healthcare verticals.
Brady has served on the Board of Directors at the Open Web Foundation and on the Steering Committee of the DataPortability Project. He’s a guest lecturer at UCLA and USC and has spoken at numerous conferences including NATPE, NAB, Digital Hollywood, DMA, NextTV, OMMA, IoT Security Summit, Act One, CREtech, and NxtStage. Brady is an elected Life Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
In his new book Smaller is Better: Using Small Autonomous Teams to Drive the Future of Enterprise, Brady offers insights about how smaller teams have helped the world’s leading enterprises save billions in operating costs while shaving years off product innovation cycles. Learn more here.