Brian Brackeen
Brian Brackeen
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Kairos’ growth was noticed by the Wall Street Journal, it was selected as one of the top 25 startups in the country and it participated in the WSJ Startup of the Year. Kairos has raised more than 5 million dollars from investors in Florida and California and has 7,000 customers in 40 countries.
Brian cut his technological teeth at Comcast, IBM, and Apple Inc. It was at Apple, where he implemented HR Systems globally, that he caught the entrepreneurial bug, quit his job and started on his journey. [undefined] [undefined]
Career
Brian held Senior positions at IBM, Comcast, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, General Motors, PetSmart, Scottrade, and others.
His specialty is helping companies to create a positive culture, utilize technology to manage your workforce effectively, and helping companies large and small navigate robust growth and international expansion.
He started his career at IBM as a senior network technician and has worked there for a year and two months from October 1997 to November 1998. There he provided level two and three support for over 1400 machines in a Multi-state Token Ring and Ethernet environment, provided desktop and network support for Windows 3.1, 3.11 for workgroups, 95, NT and Mac OS 8, supervised Office 95 to Office 97 migration, GroupWise 4.1 to GroupWise 5.2 migration, migration of payroll department from coaxial terminals to IBM PC's with terminal emulation software; inserted a new building into the network, installed 300 new PCs. Moreover, his work at IBM included replacing cards, running cable and using drive Image to image all new PCs. The position also required knowledge of TCP/ IP, Ipx/ SPX, NetWare, NetBIOS, Token Ring, and Ethernet hubs as well as NT file servers and expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Corel Wordperfect 8, and Extra! versions 6.1 to 6.4. At IBM Brian handled purchasing and inventory for Amtrak's Northeast Corridor Sites. [undefined] After working at IBM, Brian switched to Comcast Corporation to the position of Manager of System Support and Administration. He has worked there from November 1999-August 1999. There Brian provided leadership to staff/consultants of 10 with 1 Supervisor, provided last line support for a 600 User multi-site LAN and 2 separate 200 seat Call Centers. Also, he installed and supported Microsoft DHCP, Remote Access Server, Proxy server, Exchange 5.5, SQL Server 6.5, CCMail Client, ARC Serve 6.4, CCMail Router, Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 95, Windows 98, Cisco Hubs, Routers, and Switches, Aspect Phone Switches, Rolm Phone Switches, Digital Alpha Servers, Del PowerEdge Servers, Compaq Servers, Teknekron Infoswitch, CCMail 8.4 Administrator, Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Syntellect IVRs, Microsoft Exchange Server. Furthermore, Brian provided Last Level Hardware, Software, and Network Support. Having worked there for 10 months, Brian started working at Automatic Data Proc. (ADP) from August 1999 to January 2001. Being a Technical Project Leader, he handled communication to AS/400. All technical skills were utilized everyday. He was a Project Leader for the Active 3.0 to 3.1 Conversion, Project Leader for the addition of a new call center, Project Leader for Re-Hosting or our Website from IBM to an in-house hosted environment, Project Leader for all server upgrades, migrations, or moves. Until 2008, Brian was employed at ADP as a Technical Consultant. [undefined]
From July 2010 to February 2012 Brian cut his technological teeth at Apple in Cupertino California. As a Sr. Project Manager/ Architect he designed solutions that managed Apple's workforce across the globe including Apple's interests in Hong Kong, Rome, London, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, etc. [undefined] [undefined]
In 2012, Brian Brackeen created Kairos Face Recognition App.
Kairos
Kairos makes face recognition and emotion analysis easy for developers and marketers. Recognizing and analyzing faces is a core part of what makes us human. The technology makes face recognition and behavior analysis easy for developers. Kairos is a team of technologists, scientists, designers, dreamers, and doers. They believe it is the people, not the technology that makes or breaks a new invention. The big vision of the Kairos' developers is to help developers humanize the way computers see the world. [undefined] Kairos’ growth was noticed by the Wall Street Journal, it was selected as one of the top 25 startups in the country and it participated in the WSJ Startup of the Year. Kairos has raised more than 5 million dollars from investors in Florida and California and has 7,000 customers in 40 countries. [undefined] In his role as CEO Brian has managed explosive growth at the firm, raising over 5 million dollars in venture capital and hiring some of the best talents in the world. Kairos recently acquired IMRSV (formerly CaraCV), making Kairos the only facial biometrics company in the world offering both facial recognition and emotion analysis tools for developers. [undefined] [8]
Personal life
Brian has a daughter (who is 15 and going on 25) and is a rabid Miami Heat and Philadelphia Eagles fan. [undefined]