Brian works at Limestone Capital Advisors, an Austin based financial advisory firm and private equity fund, where he is responsible for developing and managing trans-Pacific client relationships, deal flow and negotiations. He is also a founding partner of The Mita Institute & Technology Accelerator (M.I.T.A), a trans-national venture seed fund and think-tank based in Mexico.
Brian previously led the national financing efforts for Governor Pawlenty and John McCain and raised over $500M. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Government and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin where he was elected student body president and appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the University of Texas System Board of Regents.
Brian serves as a trustee for the $2.4B Texas Pre-paid Higher-ed Tuition Funds. He is a young leader for the American Council on Germany, a Next Generation Fellow with the Strauss Center for Global Security and Law, and an adviser to Strategic Renaissance 21, a non-profit research and assessment group working on a comprehensive, long-term national strategy with China’s most senior policy makers.
He and his wife, Caroline Haley, call Austin, Texas home.