Colin Gounden

Since co-founding VIA in 2016, Colin has brought several of the world’s leading energy companies on board as clients and initiated the development of VIA’s blockchain application, Trusted Analytics Chain™ (TAC™).

Prior to VIA, Colin was the first investor and co-founder of five MIT spinouts, two of which became profitable in their first year of operations. Previously, Colin sold Grail Research, where he grew the company from its first employee in 2006 to more than 300 employees in 2009. He was a partner and elected board director at a top five global strategy consulting and private equity investment firm with $2Bn in assets under management. Colin also worked with IBM across Europe and North America before co-founding a technology services firm that he grew and sold for $97M in 1999.

Colin graduated from Harvard University with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.