Brad
Bush
Creative business visionary and thought leader integrates technology with marketing and finance to drive impactful business outcomes
Senior PartnerCIO
Leadership Roles
- COO, Dialexa
- CMO, GENBAND
- Chief of staff, Office of the CEO, GENBAND
- SVP of sales operations, GENBAND
- CIO & chief integration officer, GENBAND
- Director of manufacturing operations, Tekelec
- Operations director, Nortel Networks
- Chief of staff, wireless operations, Nortel Networks
- IT architecture and strategy lead, Nortel Networks
- Development manager, Nortel Networks
- Founder and president, Sharpsite Interactive
Brad Bush is a partner in the Dallas practice of Fortium Partners. He brings more than 25 years of technical and leadership experience, serving in roles as CIO, COO and CMO for high-growth, technology-based companies. Bush understands the human side of technology, using his technical and business background to execute near-impossible scenarios and create new business models. He is a thought leader in many technologies and was named a WebRTC pioneer, an InformationWeek CIO top innovator and a top 50 CMO in telecom.
Skills
- Vision, strategy and execution
- High-tech product positioning and global marketing
- Internet of Things and artificial intelligence
- Virtual reality and augmented reality
- Software as a Service (SaaS), web and mobile applications
- Marketing automation, technology and CRM
- Digital transformation and architecture
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Due diligence and deal negotiation
- Start-up and turnaround execution
- Sales management and operations
Bush holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.