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Birthday	March 11, 1972
Place of Birth	Tarrytown, New York
Grew Up	Briarcliff Manor, New York
Linkedin	Linked-in

Bradley C. Harrison is a venture capitalist, business development executive, and professional networker. He is the founder and managing partner of BHV, a strategic advisory firm focused on enabling entrepreneurs through strategic business development and connections with advisors and capital. Mr. Harrison is also a partner at Point Capital Partners, a private veteran-owned asset management and merchant banking firm. Brad specializes in private equity for early stage companies with a focus on media, technology, and entertainment. A seasoned business development executive in both Fortune 500 companies and various venture backed entities, Brad specializes in negotiations, deal structures and deal closures. A notable Tribeca resident, Brad has created a personal network of people in leadership roles spanning across various industries. He holds three US patents in the search space, is a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and has an MBA in New Product and Venture Development from the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

. Brad resides in New York City with his wife, Angie; son, Elvis; and daughter, Scout. He is conversationally fluent in Spanish and enjoys travel, golf, rugby, lifting weights and Harley Davidson’s.

Early Life and Education

Bradley C. Harrison attended the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1990-1994. He graduated in the top 1% of his class in all three categories; academic, physical & military earning him a Distinguished Honor Graduate award and a B.S.E in Theoretical Economics. After graduation, Brad served for five years in the United States Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

, earning both Airborne and Ranger qualifications and retiring as a Captain.
After a successful military career, Brad attended the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

from 1999-2001 where he graduated with an MBA in New Product and Venture Development

Venture Development

Venture development describes economic development activity that is focused on using best-practices and activities of experienced business mentoring and pre-angel and venture capital investing in order to help create venture and angel-capital-ready firms which have the promise to create significant...

. There he was elected by his peers to Sloan Student Senate, was President of the MIT Sloan Golf Club, Captain of Sloan Flag Football Team & Softball Team and active in the Venture Capital Club and Media Club.

Brad spent three consecutive semesters as Teaching Assistant for the New Enterprises course (15.390) focused on teaching Masters and PhD candidates how to launch a business. Brad was fortunate enough to work under Adjunct Professors Howard Anderson and Todd Dagres.

Brad currently teaches entrepreneurship by actively serving as an Executive Mentor for Columbia Business Schools course, New Ventures, with Adjunct Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Brendan Burns.
Brad is also an active participant with the Columbia Business School Greenhouse Program.

Military career

Brad served five years in the Army as an Infantry Officer; starting as a Second Lieutenant and retiring as a Captain. During his tenure, Brad commanded combat troops, coordinated missions around the world, and was responsible for negotiations with foreign governments and non-government agencies (UN, Red Cross).

Brad held several positions during his time in the military including:

Assistant Chief of Staff, G5, Civil-Military Operations;

Infantry Battalion Logistics Officer;

Support Platoon Leader (ranked top lieutenant in Brigade 1 of 120);

Company Executive Officer (ranked top lieutenant in Battalion 1 of 31);

Rifle Platoon Leader

Military Achievements

Ranger School

Army Ranger

Army Ranger can refer to:* Canadian Rangers, a component of the army of the Canadian Forces* Irish Army Rangers* Pakistan Army Rangers* United States Army Rangers* Vietnamese Rangers, part of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam...

Airborne School

Air Assault School

Special Forces Warfare Center (Civil Affairs Course)

Expert Infantryman’s Badge

Urban Warfare School

Demolition School

Infantry Officer's Basic Course

Career

Brad started with AOL

AOL

AOL Inc. is an American global Internet services and media company. AOL is headquartered at 770 Broadway in New York. Founded in 1983 as Control Video Corporation, it has franchised its services to companies in several nations around the world or set up international versions of its services...

in 2002 as a manager of the newly formed New Revenue group under Business Affairs and Development. During his time in Dulles, Brad worked closely with elements from AOL Time Warner Corporate Technology, AOL Technology, AOL Network Operations, AOL Broadband

AOL Broadband

- History :The UK ISP side of AOL was bought by The Carphone Warehouse in October 2006 for $688m to take advantage of their 100,000 LLU customers which made The Carphone Warehouse the biggest LLU provider in the UK....

, Warner Music, and Warner Brothers to reach a Memorandum of Understanding with Intel Corporation. Brad also established a working group across the Company to include individuals from Retention, Partner Marketing, Interactive Marketing

Interactive marketing

Interactive Marketing refers to the evolving trend in marketing whereby marketing has moved from a transaction-based effort to a conversation. John Deighton argued that interactive marketing features “the ability to address an individual and the ability to gather andremember the response of that...

, Commerce, Local Product & Programming, and Technology. He later established the first joint working group across AOL Time Warner to include elements from Time Distribution Services, Time Inc, Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . The company launched in the United States with twenty films on VHS and Betamax videocassettes in late 1979...

, Warner Music and AOL

AOL

in order to develop a new fully integrated product offering for potential partners.

Brad then moved to New York City where he took the position as Director of Media Strategy and Development at AOL

AOL

. In this new position, he was responsible for developing, managing, and executing on all Directional Media initiatives (Search, Yellow Pages/Local, Classifieds, Real Estate, Autos, Careers). Brad became the liaison for the Interactive Marketing

Interactive marketing

team with the Product and Programming Divisions for the Company’s new publishing platform, in which he was also responsible for providing strategy on new Advertising Products(~$1B in inventory). After showing his potential, he was elected to represent the Interactive Marketing

Interactive marketing

division to work on the 2004 Product and Programming Strategy development project which led to him being selected for AOL

AOL

Annual Leadership recognition.

In 2004, Brad left AOL

AOL

to become the Vice President in charge of Strategic Partnerships and Distribution for WhenU.com, a contextual advertising network. Brad held P&L responsibility for all distribution partnerships (~$60M annually). Additionally, he was responsible for business development functions including sourcing, negotiating and executing deals.

Brad formally became a venture partner at Point Capital Partners (PCP) in 2005 after leaving WhenU. Point Capital Partners is a private, veteran-owned asset management and merchant-banking firm focused on the alternative investment marketplace. PCP creates and structures proprietary private investment opportunities and manages private investment funds in various sectors of interest and with various investment strategies. He continues to be a partner in PCP along his other ventures.

In 2006, Brad founded his own firm, Brad Harrison Ventures (BHV). The goal of BHV is to assist CEOs with strategic partnerships and business development to materially grow their audience and/or revenue. BHV is a certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business.

To date, Brad has successfully worked with a myriad of companies at different stages from their initial funding through growth and additional financing including:

Endeca Technologies
Image Advantage
Pando Networks, Inc
Pubmatic / Komli
Searchandise Commerce

As an evolution of BHV, Brad launched the BHV Entrepreneurship Fund to focus on early-stage venture capital. The Entrepreneurship Fund is focused on providing strategic capital to start-ups and start-overs with a Media, Technology and Entertainment focus. Existing investments include:

Legacy Connect

FlowSearch

Mobiteris

Patents

While at AOL, Brad collaborated with his boss and mentor, Edmund J. Fish, to file and receive three patents in the search space.

Search enhancement system and method having rankings, explicitly specified by the user, based upon applicability and validity of search parameters in regard to a subject matter (United States Patent 7,467,232; December 16, 2008; Co-inventor with Edmund J. Fish while at AOL).

Search enhancement system with information from a selected source (United States Patent 7,640,232; December 29, 2009, Co-inventor with Edmund J. Fish while at AOL).

System and method patent for general search parameters having quantized relevance values that are associated with a user (United States Patent 7,739,408; June 15, 2010, Co-inventor with Edmund J. Fish while at AOL).

External links

BHV Website

MSNBC Your Business - Better Your Business (January 26, 2011)

MSNBC Your Business - Business Answers (January 26, 2011)

MSNBC Your Business - Business Answers (July 31, 2011)

MSNBC Your Business - Small Biz Newsmakers (July 31, 2011)

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