Brian Williams

Brian AM Williams is a leading voice of color in emerging technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, cloud, and cross platform mobile. Brian is a serial entrepreneur, full stack developer, engineer, MBA, and is an expert on the mechanisms of Black American innovation. Brian is the founder of Wayne and Reed, a technology startup studio focused on creating curated innovations targeting big challenges facing the new world. Wayne and Reed creates an internal portfolio of technology startups under one umbrella using smart processes, partnerships, and ingenuitive strategies. Brian attended Purdue University's honors engineering program and is also a graduate of The University of Texas - McCombs School of Business MBA program. While at Texas, Brian became a venture fellow, exposing him to the inner workings of the Austin Texas venture capital ecosystem. Brian is the founder of Purchase Black, a former ecommerce platform focused on thousands of high quality CPG products from select Black owned businesses nationwide. Brian is focused on using innovation to both create opportunities for others and to solve problems that move things forward.