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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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