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Bruno speaks on building and financing companies across capital-intensive industries, and on the current convergence of energy infrastructure, AI demand, and real-world-asset tokenization. Share your event details through the contact form and Bruno's team will follow up to discuss fit, format, and availability.
Signature Topics
Five Topics, Drawn From Experience
Building Multi-Industry Companies Without Losing Discipline
How a single operator has founded or led companies across oil & gas, consumer goods, and technology by separating business units into distinct, financeable divisions.
Ideal audience: Founders, holding-company executives, business-school audiences.
Key Takeaways
- Why business-unit separation makes a company easier to finance, sell, or spin off
- How to identify transferable skills across industries
- When to centralize vs. decentralize operating control
- How Defiant International's five-division structure works in practice
The Reverse Merger, From the Inside
A first-hand account of leading the 2016 reverse merger that formed a publicly traded oil and gas company, and the governance work that followed.
Ideal audience: Growth-stage founders considering a public-market transaction; investment bankers; M&A audiences.
Key Takeaways
- What a reverse merger actually requires operationally
- The SEC-reporting infrastructure a company must build before, not after, the transaction
- Common mistakes in post-merger integration
- How to evaluate whether a reverse merger fits a given company
Real-World-Asset Tokenization: What It Actually Solves
A capital-markets veteran's practical view of when tokenization solves a real liquidity problem versus when it's a solution in search of a problem.
Ideal audience: Family offices, real estate and energy asset owners, fintech audiences.
Key Takeaways
- The specific liquidity problems tokenization addresses
- How to evaluate a tokenization strategy against a traditional raise
- What compliance and structuring actually require
- Where the technology is genuinely ahead of the regulation, and where it isn't
Powering the AI Buildout: Energy Infrastructure at the Edge
Why AI data-center demand is colliding with an aging grid, and how on-site natural-gas power generation is emerging as a bridge solution.
Ideal audience: Energy executives, data-center developers, infrastructure investors.
Key Takeaways
- Why grid interconnection queues now stretch years
- How stranded natural gas assets can be redeployed for on-site power
- The economics of bridge power vs. permanent grid connection
- Where hydrogen and net-neutral operations fit the roadmap
Capital Formation for Capital-Intensive Industries
Lessons from raising capital across oil & gas, wine and spirits, and hydrogen energy, industries that don't fit a typical venture-capital pitch.
Ideal audience: Founders in capital-intensive sectors; accredited-investor and family-office audiences.
Key Takeaways
- Why capital-intensive businesses need a different financing narrative than software startups
- How to structure direct-participation and roll-up financings
- Evaluating debt vs. equity vs. tokenized structures
- What investors in these sectors actually diligence
Speaking Formats
Ideal Audiences
- 01Corporate and industry conferences (energy, fintech, real estate)
- 02Trade associations
- 03University and executive-education programs
- 04Business and founder communities
- 05Podcasts and moderated interview formats
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