Stephen Brodeur

boutique strategy consulting firm, called Cambridge Strategic Management Group, and growing it into a much larger 100-person organization with offices in Boston and London and serving clients throughout the world. Cambridge's expertise and advisory work covered a gamut of disciplines, including corporate merger analysis, economic valuation, business diligence and product development. It worked with clients primarily in technology, media, and telecommunications, including Verizon, Siemens, Goldman Sachs, China Telecom and Apple. In the early 2000s, Cambridge was regarded as one of the most influential firms in this vertical. As its leader, Stephen testified about the health of the sector before the US Congress' Committee on Energy and Commerce. He served as a witness for the Department of Justice on several merger investigations and spoke before numerous industry conferences and associations. In 2002, Stephen sold Cambridge Strategic Management Group to Cartesian (CRTN). After the sale of Cambridge, Stephen founded Bluefish Capital as a way to become involved in investing opportunities alongside former consulting clients. But he quickly realized that his passion lived elsewhere and, in 2009, he pivoted Bluefish to focus on early stage investing with an emphasis on data services businesses. His most successful investment to date has been Comlinkdata, a firm that he founded and where he served as CEO until it was sold to Alpine Investors in 2018. Comlinkdata, with 55 employees, provides real-time consumer behavior metrics and market flow share data to the North American telecommunication vertical. Since the sale of Comlinkdata, Stephen has been working on the development of two new Bluefish funded companies, both following the Bluefish playbook of building customer solutions enabled by data -- one in 5G spectrum utilization and the other in programmatic advertising.