James Brett

Successful Serial Entrepreneur & Venture Capitalist with 30+ years of C-Suite & Growth Management Experience. Partner and Co Owner of Gear-Net

James Brett is an experienced, skilled, successful, professional serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist with over three decades of involvement in a wide variety of businesses and start-ups including traditional bricks and mortar, pro audio-video equipment rentals, smartphone technologies, SAAS, broadcasting / engineering, financial information services, online gaming and merchandising, bespoke travel solutions, real estate, event management and marketing.

Having founded his first successful company at age 18, James continues to consult and invest in a relatively diverse group of industries with a special passion for innovative start-ups, while mentoring and supporting new and young entrepreneurs as well as seasoned partnerships, business entities and management groups.

James has a track record of successfully divesting all organizations he originally founded.

He enjoys sharing his intellectual capital with others, accompanied by his ‘passion and drive for life’ that one would find hard to match.

James has a particular eye for the unusual and innovative. He is particularly skilled in his ability and history in making ideas come to reality and for the reality to become awesome!

James regularly uses several terms and methods that uniquely describe his perspective and style, one of his favourites being "The Last 5%"; referring to the importance of the finite details being the difference between 'good-enough' versus another of his primary life and business goals:
“Memorable for all the right reasons”.

James is a sought-after presenter, panelist and active participant at conferences, conventions and associations’ meetings, with a focus on technical and engineering solutions, online businesses, apps and SAAS, as well as the unique marketing challenges facing these organizations. He has and continues to be an active member on and with many boards, associations and groups, where his input is regarded as having an innovative and refreshingly positive perspective.

More interesting facts about James:
>James is a certified stunt car driver
>For over a decade James has engineered the live audio inside the stadiums for the NFL's Super Bowl
>He's also an accomplished voice-over artist and occasional voice actor, just for fun!
>James has a massive (and ridiculous) collection of over 800 pairs runners, sneakers and skate shoes
>He's humbled to have visited many of the most unusual places in the world as an 'extreme adventure traveller'
>Oh, and if you got this far in his bio, ask James about his ‘TV broadcast moment of fame';
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