​A Central Role in Europe’s Future: Briefing With Czech Ambassador Miloslav Stasek

PJ Bain is the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Atlanta-based financial technology leader PrimeRevenue. PJ has three decades of experience in global and international business and has been involved as a founder, investor, board member, and executive in software and technology firms supporting enterprise clients in the areas of supply chain, accounting, financial technology and payment platforms.

A member of the Forbes Technology Council, PJ is a frequent speaker and author on topics such as leadership,
entrepreneurship, international business and global supply chains. PJ has extensive experience in capital formation, fundraising, mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, strategic planning, marketing, sales, technology development and value creation.

He is actively involved in charitable, civic and community initiatives on both a regional and national level. PJ serves on the Membership Committee for the Atlanta Rotary, is a member of the Host Committee for Goodwill
of North Georgia Battle of the Biz! Gala, sits on the Board of Directors at Leadership Atlanta, Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School-Atlanta.
PJ is actively involved in mentoring start-up and technology business executives, sitting on the Advisory Council
for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Atlanta Growth Collective, both economic development initiatives of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. PJ and his family
are frequent supporters of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the Shepherd Center, and several other philanthropic organizations and foundations.

An Atlanta native, PJ was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Alumni for the College of Engineering by
his alma mater, The Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a Bachelor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Degree and was a walk-on member of the varsity football team.

B. David Bridges is the Vice President for the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. EI2 is the largest, oldest, and most successful economic development organization at any university in the country. It is home to 11 economic development programs which (1) build and scale startups, (2) grow existing small and medium sized enterprises, including manufacturing firms, and (3) energize ecosystem builders (communities, governments, universities, and non-profits). These programs serve the State of Georgia, with programmatic reach across the Southeast region, the United States, and five continents around the world. Bridges concurrently serves as the Director of the Economic Development Lab (EDL) within the Enterprise Innovation Institute. EDL works with communities in Georgia on projects such as workforce development, fiscal and economic impact analyses, strategic planning, and downtown redevelopment. This lab also works locally and globally conducting innovation policy research and implementing innovation ecosystem building projects with 23 countries around the world.

Since joining the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994, Bridges has worked in various practice areas serving manufacturing firms, national labs, international governments, and innovation ecosystems. He has been a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator on over $20 million in grants and has authored, co-authored, or significantly contributed to over $40 million in winning proposals. Bridges has won over 100 proposals from U.S. federal agencies, plus universities, governments and non-profits from around the world. He is a Principal Research Faculty member and a frequent lecturer and key note speaker in China, South Africa, and across Latin America on nascent, innovation ecosystem building.

Prior to joining EI2, he was a general management consultant and a brand manager at three consumer package goods companies. Bridges has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University and a Master of Science in Marketing from Georgia State University.