Brandon Long, MBA

Brandon Long, MBA has over 18 years of professional experience in business development, sales, and product management. In 2021, they began working as Business Development Director, US and Canada for Hayden AI. In 2020, they were Director of Public Sector & Smart City Innovation at Nexar Inc. From 2018 to 2020, they were Manager, Business Development LA/OC at Cubic Transportation Systems, where they identified, developed, and pursued business opportunities in the fare collection and Mobility as a Service (MaaS) space in Southern California. Brandon also created financial models to project revenue to Cubic and ROI to customer. From 2015 to 2018, they were Business Account Executive at Verizon Wireless, where they developed and maintained client relationships for the Greater Los Angeles area in order to sell wireless solutions. From 2014 to 2015, they were Sales Director at mindSHIFT, a Ricoh company, where they sold MSP to include managed IT services, cloud-based server and desktop, BDR, and cloud-based VoIP for Greater Los Angeles. From 2012 to 2014, they were LA On Premise Sales Rep at Stone Brewing Co., where they created and implemented sales and marketing initiatives with brewery representative teams to increase product awareness and market share. From 2007 to 2012, they were Product Manager - Golden Shine Waxes and Sales & Product Development at California Car Cover. From 2006 to 2007, they were Senior Financial Services Consultant at Alaska USA Federal Credit Union. Finally, from 2004 to 2002, they were Owner of Happy Gringo Trading Co. and Account Manager at Transnation/ Land America Title & Escrow.

Brandon Long holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.