Kevin brings 26 years of experience as angel investor, senior advisor, and board member at venture funded startups coupled with senior executive experience at top-tier leading consulting firms such as Accenture, Booz & Co, and PwC as a digital and emerging technology strategy, innovation, business transformation consulting leader for complex strategic programs at Fortune 500 and PE/VC firms. Kevin served as a global venture growth catalyst, investor, mentor, advisor, and board member at selective venture backed emerging tech startups and several innovative startup incubators/accelerators worldwide, including The Columbia IBM Blockchain Accelerator. Kevin also served in the industry as trusted digital advisor and business partner to C-suite driving board level agenda aligned outcomes enhancing stakeholder value through effective digital and technology innovation journey investments with emerging technologies including AI/ML, Blockchain, CyberSecurity, IoT/Edge, Data Science, Big Data, Cognitive & Predictive Analytics through Decentralized and Tokenized Models across diversified cross-sectors including FinTech, HealthTech, BrainTech, LearnTech, Retail, FMCG, Resources, MediaTech, and DeepTech verticals worldwide across various market aligned strategic service lines, based out of US, UK, Europe, and Oceania. Kevin graduated with Masters in Computer Science in 1993 and received prestigious ‘Outstanding 50 Asian American in Business’ award in 2006.
Kevin invests in and mentors passionate, committed, visionary, creative, synergistic entrepreneurs becoming better leaders in creating innovative cohesive teams developing market relevant disruptive products with scalable revenue streams as foundation to building game changing profitable companies in consumer and enterprise space catalyzing a paradigm shift in the areas of FinTech, WealthTech, RegTech, PayTech, InsurTech | HealthTech, MedTech, BrainTech, BCI, BioTech | LearnTech, EduTech | Blockchain, Decentralization, DLT, HashGraph, MerkleTrees | Tokenization, Token & Exchange Offerings STO, IEO | Symbiotic Cognitive Computing | AI, ML, DeepTech | CyberSecurity | IoT, Fog, Edge | XR (AR, VR, MR, CR) | Data Science | Smart Dust | Smart Cities, leveraging actionable innovation and visionary entrepreneurship as means to enrich human experience and planetary sustenance. Kevin is also a mentor at IBM Blockchain Accelerator and Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School in New York, advising venture funded startup CEOs who are MBA graduates from Columbia Business School, and an Advisor at CyberLaunch.vc, a leading CyberSecurity and Machine Learning Startup Accelerator based in Atlanta. Kevin is as a speaker and panelist at several synergistic angel investor and startup accelerator events in various major startup ecosystems across the globe where he advises startup founders and executives in the areas of product strategy + innovation + development, creative marketing and growth strategies, optimal business and revenue model definition, strategic pivots, go-to-market and global market launch strategies, corporate development and fundraising, scalable distribution and partnership channel across emerging digital technology sectors.
Currently Mr. Reddy is a Global Managing Director at Reddy & Co providing Interim CEO and Senior Executive Advisory Services in the areas of Emerging Technologies, Tech IB, Investment Advisory, Digital Strategy, Innovation, and Transformation for venture funded seed, early, and growth stage startups. Kevin is also a Regional Partner for California at Cataliize, a Global Venture Catalyst firm with HQ in Sydney. Previously Kevin built and managed large high performance teams as global leader for Digital Strategy and Transformation practice at Booz & Co. Prior to Booz he was a member of Accenture’s Financial Services IT Advisory senior leadership team with a focus on Digital Innovation and Transformation with FinTech/FSO as primary focus. Prior to Accenture, Kevin was CEO of sec|zone, a silicon valley based security software startup, Consulting Director in Professional Services at Computer Associates Int’l (NYSE: CA - Enterprise cloud and IT management solutions), and Manager in MCS (FS) group at PriceWaterhouse LLP.
Kevin advised both large global 2000 corporations worldwide and early stage digital startup clients across sectors maximizing the value of technology enabled transformative business initiatives and digital transformation advisory services in diversified cross-sectors worldwide across various market aligned strategic service lines, based out of US, Europe, and Asia, leveraging his following capability portfolio:
• Value Driven Digital Innovation, Strategy, Execution, and Transformation Journey Advisory
• Venture Advisory, Capital Placement, Growth Strategy, Interim CEO and Advisory Board Member for Growth and Expansion Stage Startups
• Venture Architecture for Innovative Business Models - Ideation, Product/Market Fit, GTM Strategy, Incubation, and Commercialization capabilities
• Next Generation {Social + Mobile + Analytics + Cloud + AI /ML+ Blockchain + Data Science + CyberSecurity + IoT/Edge} Product/Services/Solutions Design, Digitization, Deployment, Automation, Innovation, and Implementation
• {PE + M&A + Divestiture} Pre-Deal Due-diligence, Assessments, Readiness, Separation or Carve-out Planning, and Post-Deal Integration, Day-One Readiness, 100-Day Plan, Transformation, Optimization
• {Business + Technology + Market} Strategy, Effectiveness, Governance, Risk, Compliance, Transformation, Enterprise Architecture, and Operations
Mr. Reddy was selected and honored with the prestigious ‘Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business’ award in 2006. Kevin graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering. Master's Thesis: Disruptive Innovation in PetriNets with focus on Federated Distributed Hyper-Mesh Computing Networks + DeCentralized Abstraction Layer Virtualization + Multi-Layer Concurrent Processing driven New Parallel Programming Paradigm Independent of Underlying Distributed Massively Parallel (MasPar) nCube/HyperCube Architectures. Kevin is a Citizen of the USA with OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) privilege.