Kyle O'brien
Director of Corporate Development at Zama
Paris, Île-de-France
Overview
Work Experience
Chief of Staff | Director of Corporate Development
2024 - Current
Primary advisor to and proxy for the Founder & CEO. Helping to lead strategy and execution on startup acceleration, partnerships, growth, new ventures and special projects. Zama is an open source cryptography company building state-of-the-art FHE solutions for blockchain and AI.
Venture Capital | Managing Partner
2023
Unit Ventures is an angel fund in partnership with Rand Hindi, 2x Founder & Top #5 Angel Investor in France. We focus on early stage deep tech companies solving problems related to Next Generation Computing, Blockchain Infrastructure & Privacy, and Frontier Health. Portfolio: Fabric, Kakarot, Giza, Modulus Labs, BE Therapeutics, Twin Labs, Unisat, Glycanage, Brightside Privacy, Deciduous Therapeutics, Marathon Fusion, Corintis, Cornami, Tomorrow Bio, Chipiron, Gouach, Mindstate Design Labs, Gilgamesh, Terran Biosciences, C12, Interstellar, Deepset.
Founder
2021
Startup ROI is a project dedicated to writing, podcasting and bringing people together across technology and venture ecosystems in Europe.
Operating Partner
2022 - 2023
Leading media strategy, content creation & community efforts.
Head Of Product Marketing
2020 - 2020
Head of Customer Success
2018 - 2020
Managing a team of 10 Customer Success specialists across Paris and New York. I am accountable for Technical Support, On-Boarding, and Long-Term Relationship management with our current install base (400 Customers & growing!). Alongside implementing process, developing strategy and thought leadership, and coaching the team, here are a few notable highlights thus far: - Initiating the Hivebrite User Group (HUG) program to gather customers in-person for a day of workshops, breakout sessions and training (held in 4 different geographies to date) - Creating and deploying our content strategy: webinars, white-papers, customer stories - Building cross-functional workflows, namely a weekly data extract with our developers to deliver key insights to customers and implement Salesforce to break down the silo between Sales & Customer Success
Sr. Solution Engineer - Community Cloud
2017 - 2018
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Sales Director
2016 - 2017
Combining optical microscopy, computational Super-resolution, artificial intelligence, and robotics, to bring the world’s most advanced microscope to every manufacturing sector. www.nanotronics.co
Nanotronics Imaging is a microscopy and software company delivering rapid testing and analysis solutions.
Raised $125,171,606.00 from Jim Pitkow, Sahin Boydas and 8090 Partners.
Solution Engineer, Healthcare & Life Sciences
2016 - 2016
Associate Solution Engineer, Healthcare & Life Sciences
2015 - 2016
Sales Development Representative
2014 - 2015
Jr. Enterprise Business Representative
2013 - 2014
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Artist Relations Intern
2012 - 2013
Genius is an online media platform that brings music intelligence to the masses.
Raised $77,739,998.00 from Everblue Management and Marshall Mathers.
Summer Intern
2011 - 2011
Advanced Markets Network is a division of New York Life Insurance Company, a Fortune 100 company. New