Brian Shortsleeve
Brian Shortsleeve is an American venture capitalist[1] and Marine Corps veteran[2]. He served as the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) Chief Administrator and Acting General Manager from 2015 until 2017 and is currently the co-founder and managing director of venture and growth-stage investing firm M33 Growth.[3]
Education[edit]
Shortsleeve grew up in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1995 and from Harvard Business School in 2001.[4]
Military Service[edit]
Shortsleeve was a member of the NROTC program at Harvard College and served as an officer in the Marine Corps following graduation from 1995 until 1999. He deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1997 as part of the NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR) and to the Persian Gulf in 1998[5] as an officer with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).
Early Career[edit]
Following business school, Shortsleeve worked as a consultant at Bain & Company and then as an investor at H.I.G. Capital and General Catalyst Partners.[6]
MBTA[edit]
After the winter of 2015, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker convened a special panel to review the MBTA and develop a plan of action to reform and improve the organization's management and finances.[7] The Panel recommended the creation of a Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) to oversee all aspects of the fiscal and management operations of the MBTA and the selection of a Chief Administrator to focus on the Agency's fiscal issues.[8]
Shortsleeve joined the MBTA as Chief Administrator in 2015[9] to work with the FMCB on developing a strategy to accelerate capital delivery and close the operating deficit through expense controls and operating revenue growth.[10] In 2016, he became the Acting General Manager of the MBTA.[11] [12]
During his tenure, he led efforts to reduce the operating deficit[13] and repair the MBTA's finances.[14] Over the next few years, the MBTA achieved several important financial milestones including the lowest operating expense growth in 15 years [15]; the first balanced operating budget in more than a decade; and the rapid acceleration of capital investment to improve core MBTA infrastructure.[16]
In 2016, for his work at the MBTA, Shortsleeve was named as one of 50 Most Influential People in Boston by the Boston Business Journal[17] and as one of the 2016 Game Changers by the Boston Globe[18], which recognizes leaders doing extraordinary things to reshape life and work in the greater Boston area.
In 2017, Shortsleeve was appointed by Governor Baker to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board and the FMCB, which The Boston Globe editorial board described as having brought an “unparalleled level of transparency”[19] to the T since its inception in 2015. He served as a board member on the FMCB and MassDOT board through June 2020.[20]
M33 Growth[edit]
In 2017, Shortsleeve joined Gabe Ling, a former partner at General Catalyst, and Mike Anello, former vice president at Valor Equity Partners, to found M33 Growth, a venture and growth-stage investment firm based in Boston.[21]
The firm launched in October 2017 with an initial $180 million fund to focus on investing in young companies in the software, healthcare, and disruptive sector services.[22] The firm partners closely with founders and CEOs and seeks to help the leaders of successful, bootstrapped businesses rapidly achieve scale. [23]
In February 2020, the firm closed a $260 million second fund.[24]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/10/13/former-mbta-general-manager-helps-launch-growth.html
- ↑ https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/01/brian-shortsleeve-has-mission-fix-mbta-budget-woes/CWwdyGo19aD95TYB2IWrjK/story.html
- ↑ www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/10/25/why-brian-shortsleeves-m33-growth-thinks-it-found.html. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Story Details - Alumni - Harvard Business School". www.alumni.hbs.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ WCVB (2017-02-16). "MBTA to begin search for new general manager". WCVB. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Staff, Adam Vaccaro Globe; May 25; 2017; Comments, 2:17 p m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "MBTA general manager Shortsleeve to step down - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ "Governor Baker Announces MBTA Special Panel". Mass.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Staff, David Scharfenberg Globe; July 17; 2015; Comments, 2:16 p m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "Baker names 5 to MBTA fiscal control board - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ https://patch.com/massachusetts/westwood/brian-shortsleeve-becomes-new-chief-administrator-mbta-0
- ↑ "Baker Administration Names Leadership Team For MBTA". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ "MBTA general manager to retire in June | Boston.com". www.boston.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/02/16/mbta-general-manager-brian-shortsleeve-to-step.html
- ↑ https://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/07/03/jon-keller-at-large-mbta-general-manager-brian-shortsleeve/
- ↑ Staff, Michael Levenson Globe; May 1; 2016; Comments, 10:27 p m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "Brian Shortsleeve's mission: fix the MBTA's budget woes - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ "StackPath". www.masstransitmag.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Staff, M. E. T. "MBTA's acting GM to step down and join agency's control board". www.metro-magazine.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2016/11/17/a-look-at-the-boston-business-journals-2016-power.html#g/401863/45. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ May 13; 2016; Comments, 7:00 a m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "Who made the Globe's list of 2016 Game Changers? - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ June 11, The Editorial BoardUpdated; 2020; Comments, 4:00 a m Email to a Friend Share on Facebook Share on TwitterPrint this Article View. "With clock running out on T fiscal control board, Beacon Hill must act - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ Mohl, Bruce (2020-07-22). "T control board to remain largely intact". CommonWealth Magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ www.americaninno.com https://www.americaninno.com/boston/ex-mbta-head-gets-back-into-startup-investing-rethink-robotics-coo-joins-autonomous-boat-company/. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Brian Shortsleeve, former MBTA troubleshooter, launches VC firm". Boston Herald. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
- ↑ www.bizjournals.com https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/10/25/why-brian-shortsleeves-m33-growth-thinks-it-found.html. Retrieved 2020-07-29. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Rowley, Jason D. (2020-02-24). "Boston's M33 Growth Raises $260M For Its Second Fund Focused On Scaling Previously Bootstrapped Businesses". Crunchbase News. Retrieved 2020-07-29.
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