Alissa Valentina Knight

Public Speaker, Leader, and Entrepreneur in San Diego, California

Alissa Valentina Knight

Public Speaker, Leader, and Entrepreneur in San Diego, California

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I am the Group CEO of Brier & Thorn, where we serve many of the world’s most innovative companies and prominent institutions across our member firms in North America, Latin America, and Europe. Previously, I was the CEO of Applied Watch and Netstream; companies I sold in M&A transactions to publicly traded companies in international markets.

I am currently attending the Fox School of Business with a major in Accounting and plan to go on to Wharton for my MBA. I studied Strategy at Dartmouth, Tuck School of Business and am also currently pursuing my Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.

In 2018 I started a venture capital fund at Kensington Park Capital which focuses on early-stage investments in the IoT and cybersecurity markets. My specialties include developing, communicating, executing, and sustaining corporate strategic initiatives by first establishing and reviewing key strategic priorities for a business and translating strategies into an actionable and quantitative strategic plan.

My passion professionally is meeting and learning from extraordinary leaders around the world and sharing my views on the disruptive forces reshaping global markets. My long-term goal is to help as many organizations as possible develop and execute on their strategic plans and focus on their areas of increased risk; bridging silos to effectively manage risk across organizational boundaries; and enable them to pursue intelligent risk taking as a means to long-term value creation.

Read my entire professional bio at https://www.brierandthorn.com/alissaknight and learn more about me and my personal interests on my homepage at http://www.alissaknight.com