Bryan Eagle, III

Treasurer of EmergeMemphis (Co-Founder)
CEO, Memphis Ventures

Mr. Eagle has been involved in marketing, strategic planning and business development for telecommunications and new media companies for over 20 years. In 1999, after selling his last company to EchoStar, Mr. Eagle founded Memphis Ventures as a holding company for his consulting and investment work. His consulting clients include venture and institutional investors looking for due diligence analysis and early stage companies looking for management consulting and business plan development. On the investment side, Mr. Eagle invest his own capital and advises his family trusts in investments in companies in the telecommunications, new media, and health care arenas.

Prior to Memphis Ventures, Eagle was Vice President of Business Development at Media4, a pioneer in delivering Internet content over direct broadcast satellite networks. EchoStar acquired Media4 in 1999 as the basis for their Business Television DVR platform.

Prior to this he was the founder of Skywire Corporation a leading provider of wireless remote monitoring products and software. Skywire’s clients included, the Coca-Cola Company, Federal Express and PepsiCo. Its products and those described through its patents control the operations of millions of vending machines worldwide. Skywire was acquired by Marconi Online the British pioneer in wireless communications technologies in 1997.

Prior to Skywire, Eagle was a member of the executive management team of Cylix Communications Corporation a specialized provider of satellite and fiber managed data networks. Eagle was part of the team that led the management buyout of Cylix from GE. After a successful turnaround of the business, Cylix was sold to France Telecom in 1993. 

Prior to Cylix, Eagle worked with several emerging communications companies including being a member of the team that launched the The Discovery Channel, where he was one of the initial stockholders. The Discovery Channel was sold to Liberty Media.

He began his career in 1981 as an advertising executive in New York with Ally & Gargano working on the launch of MCI’s residential phone service. Mr. Eagle was the first outside person hired onto this start-up account. In his three years at Ally & Gargano, the MCI account grew from test market to over $65 millions in billings.

Eagle holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia University.

Mr. Eagle is also the founder of EmergeMemphis (www.emergememphis.org) a non-profit incubator for general purpose and technology-based companies, where he served as Chairman of the Board. He also serves on several community Boards of Directors including the American Diabetes Association’s Leadership Council and Memphis College of Arts.