James F. Blom

James F. Blom has spent the past 27 years in the technology industry investing in the public and private markets through various senior roles in corporate development and business development as well as building dozens of companies as an entrepreneur, founder and founding investor. From leading teams focused on mergers and acquisitions on the buy side and sell side to investing as a professional angel investor and as a venture partner at the Seed, Series A and Series B stage-Mr. Blom has spent a lifetime building value for his backers and employers.  Culminating in over $5.89 Billion in new profits, services revenues and software sales from partnerships and products he has created and sold. As an operating executive in technology, Mr. Blom is also very well respected in the technology founder and tech engineering circles because of how he marketed an early stage blockchain company from Estonia and lifted them from obscurity; bringing them to the United States and Sweden back in 2013, transformed the ownership of the firm from Hong Kong and Japan and consolidated it back with the founders by growing its revenues in 2013 from $1M in revenues to $63M in under 18 months before their hyper ledger platform was fully productized while in parallel he sourced and built the entire technical leadership -recruiting the CTO, Chief Architect & Chief Product Officer.

Over the past twenty-seven years his product development expertise and technology supply chain strategies have directly generated over one and a half billion in direct supply chain data centric services revenues, well over four hundred million in supply chain visibility optimization service revenues and well over seven hundred million dollars in capital investment going into new data services and supply chain logistics investments.

Mr. Blom was also one of the very first technology product marketing and business development executives to recognize the importance of managed services –especially search and TTL-across supply chain logistics data supply chains. His most prominent strategic plan called for pre-installing enterprise servers in data centers and changing the models for selling compute and networking services as a service related to search and advertising of packaged goods at supermarkets.  Resulting in new alliances, technology partnerships and acquisitions. The most noteable was the sale of Alta Vista to CMGI corporation. Given this expertise and recognition of his work -he was hired by Digital Island & Exodus Communications before and after their initial public offerings to assist their founders and executive teams to improve their strategic planning and go-to-market business models as well as invited by Akamai as a mezzanine investor. Based on the needs of their transportation, shipping and logistics partners demands for visibility and optimization addressing routing and delivery. In stores and through their supply chain distribution centers. The largest shipping and track, trace and location project was a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Hutchison for globalized supply chain cargo optimization for food, industrial equipment and clothing retailers wishing to optimize their shipments and supply chain across Asia and North America.

More recently, Mr. Blom has helped the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Germany and Switzerland with their thinking around data aggregation services and protecting consumer data and attributing online transactions to the actual customer and user in supermarkets and across ecommerce service providers, especially data security, data protection and data collection services across their supply chains, data centers, cloud computing and private and isolated global networks. For the holding companies which control the flow of money from cash centric operations to digital payment. For their enterprises. Optimizing payments and security of customer databases. Resulting in new supply chain track, trace and locate visbility services converged with telecom, cloud datacenter, blockchain product offerings from a data residency, data offshoring, data provenance, data sovereignty and data embassy perspective. Some of the companies which have benefited directly from this new product and data services for supply chain optimization are Kountable, Amazon, Alibaba, The Carlyle Group, Raytheon, New Context Services, Lockheed Martin, Nestle, Federal Express, UPS, Aldi, Orkla, Rakuten, Softbank, Bharti-Airtel, Maersk and Walmart. 

At present, James Blom works for the founders and owners of Position A Partners, the founders of Story Ventures, the founders and LP’s behind BootsrapLabs and founders / operators who have family offices and venture arms which are focused on solving the most difficult challenges in transportation, supply chain data services and logistics. Especially attribution, attestation and last mile delivery.