Kevin Reid

Kevin Reid is a technology entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience creating software enabled solutions that deliver efficiency, enable innovation, and drive superior financial results for enterprises worldwide. He is a founding partner of Blue Lagoon Companies, where he incubates, advises, and invests in progressive technology companies that are disrupting and redefining their industries. Kevin’s prior innovations have contributed to several successful venture capital exits, including two “unicorns,” (startups that reach a $1 billion valuation). Kevin serves as a Board Director of Lemongrass Ltd., Syniti (BackOffice Associates, LLC), Everstream Analytics PTE Ltd. and Stella Financial Solutions Inc. He previously co-founded Virtustream, an enterprise-class cloud company, and served as a Board Director, CEO and CTO prior to the company’s sale to EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). At Virtustream, he co-invented and led the implementation of the MicroVM, a common currency for expressing, provisioning, and optimizing shared infrastructure resources on which he jointly obtained five US patents. He also drove the creation of the industry’s first trusted cloud platform with encryption down to the silicon layer - which is recognized by industry analysts as the most secure cloud computing platform for enterprise customers. In 2016 Dell Technologies (now NYSE: DELL) acquired EMC in the largest acquisition in the technology industry’s history. Kevin served as a President within Dell Technologies and was appointed to the company’s Global Strategy Leadership Council and its CTO Council. Prior to Virtustream, Kevin co-founded Greensmith Energy Management Systems, a US-based leader in intelligent energy storage technology and solutions. In his capacity as Chairman of the Board, he contributed to creating the company’s industry leading energy management software system, GEMS, pioneering central control capabilities of distributed energy storage appliances—revolutionizing the power distribution network. Greensmith was acquired in 2017 by Wärtsilä Corporation (OMX: WRT1V). Before Greensmith, Kevin was co-founder and CTO of Adjoined, a U.S.-based management consulting, technology and outsourcing firm targeting the Global 2000 market, where he was responsible for sales and delivery of the firm’s technology services. And then prior to Adjoined, Kevin served as CIO for Florida Crystals Corporation (FCC), a privately held company recognized as one of the largest sweetener companies in the world. Black Enterprise named him one of 2018’s most powerful African American executives in corporate America, and he was the joint recipient of Intel Capital’s Entrepreneur/Exit of the Year award in 2015. Aside from his professional work, Kevin is also an active philanthropist, co-founding The Blue Lagoon Foundation—which continuously raises awareness and passively sources funds for philanthropic programs (including an initiative to help children in his native Jamaica to further their educations and build brighter futures). He also serves as a Trustee for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Kevin graduated with an MBA from the University of Miami and holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Florida International University.