Mr. Kelly’s experience includes over thirty years of venture capital, banking, privatization, and founding and managing technology and financial services companies worldwide. His expertise includes entrepreneurship/company formation, risk analysis, finance, corporate restructuring, deal structuring, and business development.

Mr. Kelly currently consults with early stage technology companies in China and Europe with his own advisory group Global Affiliate Partners. He also serves as a founding advisor/mentor with the German Accelerator, a German government sponsored business accelerator promoting early stage German companies expansion to the U.S. He previously served as President and CEO of ViaLogy plc, a technology spin-off of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, guiding the company through various financing rounds, and a listing on London’s Alternative Investment Market. Mr. Kelly subsequently served on the board as chairman of the audit committee.

Prior to ViaLogy, Mr. Kelly co-founded, and served as a Managing Partner of First Ventury AG, an early-stage venture capital firm in Heidelberg, Germany. He was previously a co-founder and CFO for N4FX.com, a California start-up specializing in Internet customer retention solutions.  Mr. Kelly also served as Managing Director of Financial Proformas Inc., a risk management software firm, where he oversaw software development for credit and risk analysis, and later participated in selling the company to Moodys. He also served for a number of years as CEO of the American Express Bank GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. In addition, Mr. Kelly has held senior management positions with Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank in both the U.S. and Germany.

As an independent consultant, Mr. Kelly was engaged in financial advisory services for structuring and raising debt and equity capital, as well as restructuring and privatization. He has advised the Asian Development Bank in Beijing, China, a Baltic and European investment fund in Russia, overseen capital equipment financing in Venezuela, and guided the privatization of Hungary’s third largest brewery on behalf of a private investor. As a KPMG consultant, he served one year in Tallinn, Estonia, as USAID Chief of Party where he led a team that restructured and privatized over 100 state-owned enterprises.

Mr. Kelly holds a B.A. and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He has also completed programs at the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies, and the Institut zur Forschung der UdSSR in Munich, Germany. Mr. Kelly has passed the CPA examination, and is fluent in German. He is a EU (Irish) and U.S. dual national.