Kim Nguyen
Managing Partner at Brilliant Keypoint Investments
McLean, Virginia
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2015 - Current
Investor and adviser to early stage companies. Focused on Cyber Security, HealthIT, and B2B SaaS companies in North America. Operating Partner of Blu Venture Investors. Blu Lead for Huntress Labs (https://huntresslabs.com/) - Cybersecurity for MSPs Board Member for NopSec (https://www.nopsec.com/) - Cyber Threat and Exposure Management Board Member for Gentian (https://www.gentian.io/homepage) - Precision Monitoring for Biodiversity Board Member for Atomicorp (https://atomicorp.com/) - Hybrid Cloud Security Management Board Member for New Connect (https://gonewconnect.com/) - Internet Service Provider Blu Lead for Cybersponse - Security Orchestration & Automation Response (SOAR) solution - acquired by Fortinet. Blu Lead for Dark Cubed (https://darkcubed.com/) - Enterprise-grade threat identification and protection - acquired by Celerium. Former Founding Member of Blu Cyber Seed Investment Committee Former Member of Blu Executive Committee (2020-2021) Founding Member of Blu Innovations Investment Committee
CBDO
2017 - 2018
Lead Business Development, Capture, and Proposal efforts.
Pragmatics providing clients with award-winning customer service and expert solutions to complex challenges.
VP of Special Programs
1997 - 2015
Dr. Nguyen has over 15 years experience in all aspects of business development and capture management under Federal Government contracts. Managed proposal efforts and negotiated Teaming Agreements. Played a key role in winning 17 of the company’s IDIQ Federal Government Contracts, as well as numerous task orders. These contracts diversified Pragmatics business base into several Civilian Agencies (Treasury, Justice, Commerce, and Labor) and DoD Activities (Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), USTRANSCOM, Air Force Communications Agency, NSA). Led the successful capture of all four of DISA’s major service vehicles (NexGen, Encore, I-ASSURE, and GEMS), which established Pragmatics as a major DISA partner and diversified Pragmatics service offerings into Information Assurance and Program Management. Led successful capture efforts of Encore I tasks in Denver, CO and St Louis, MO, which diversified Pragmatics outside of the National Capitol Region. He has managed testing and software development projects. He has led Mergers and Acquisitions and Leadership Development initiatives.
Pragmatics providing clients with award-winning customer service and expert solutions to complex challenges.
Graduate Student Instructor
1994 - 1997
Taught intermediate and beginning micro and macroeconomics to undergraduates. Second highest student evaluation out of 15 instructors.
Summer Intern
1993 - 1994
Research for East Asian Infrastructure Division during Summer 1993 and Summer 1994.
The World Bank Group provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries.
Raised $81,000,000.00 from Northern Trust, QBE Insurance Group, NSW Treasury Corporation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, SAFA, Aware Super and Treasury Corporation of Victoria.