Blair Duncan

Blair brings extensive experience in scaling and growing businesses, building passionate teams, fundraising, strategic planning, and business transactions with high growth companies. He oversees all facets of financial operations, including accounting, treasury, budgeting, contracts, and risk management.

Blair previously served as CFO of The Appraisal Lane and CFO/COO at Celling Biosciences, with additional previous CFO roles at Emergent Technologies, SiteStuff, Trillion and ClearSource. Blair has founded four companies during his career, and is still associated with Convergence Ventures, a life-science venture capital fund in Texas. Collectively, he has raised over $200 million in private equity, another $200 million in credit facilities, and has acquired and/or sold seven companies.

Throughout these experiences, Blair has helped ensure success by enriching teams with vision, empowerment, and tactical management. His companies have won awards for being desirable workplaces (Austin Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work”), as well as fast growing (Austin Business Journal’s “Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies”).

Blair graduated from Duke University with a double major in economics and psychology and has an MBA from the University of Texas with a concentration in entrepreneurship and finance. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is an active member of Financial Executives International and was a founding Finance Committee member for the Long Center for the Performing Arts. He serves as Board member and Treasurer for the Maya Exploration Center and is a graduate of Leadership Austin, a civic engagement and community leadership program. At home in Austin, he enjoys tennis, golf, live music, and spending time with his wife and three children.