Firth Griffith, Strategic Advisor
Firth Griffith is the co-founder of several venture capital
facilities and a global think tank. The venture funds include
Mentor Venture Partners, an early stage information technology
and corporate co-investment partnership; Beachhead Capital, a
networking and communications infrastructure seed fund; and
Athabasca, a facility that originates molecular and cellular
therapeutics ventures.
Each facility draws resources from the other and relates to
the think tank as the foundational entity: the latter opens
new ambitious, historic horizons for the highest levels of
leadership, industry and venture creation, new institutional
initiatives at the intersection of the public and private
sectors, and the global financial markets.
Mentor calls on seasoned technology executives, corporate
partners and founders to address the most inexorable problems
related to originating a company with often first-time
entrepreneurs. Beachhead selects and seeds the most seasoned
serial entrepreneurs originating products, which simplify,
accelerate or enhance the aggregation and delivery of data,
voice and video services. Athabasca advises and funds leading
scientist-practitioners with discontinuity-enabling ideas
poised to solve the most obdurate problems in translational
bio-medical research.
Finally, Archimedes Axle is a global think tank that caters
to the highest levels of leadership in the public and private
sectors and tackles seemingly intractable problems in the
global political economy across multiple fields and
industries. It develops paradigm-changing IP based on an
original, one-of-a-kind scientific methodology, which has been
developed over fourteen years and from multiple fields in the
natural and human sciences. Prior to the creation of these
investment and advisory practices, for almost twenty years
Firth initiated strategic trade, crafted investment strategy,
managed corporate planning and advised subsidiaries of Mitsui
& Co. in China, Japan, Latin America, the Caribbean Basin,
and the US, particularly Silicon Valley. He has a wide range
of language training including German, Italian, Latin, Thai,
Japanese and both modern spoken Chinese (Mandarin) and
classical Chinese literature.
In addition, Firth advises developing country-centric
non-profits focusing on some of the most persistent global
problems, including archeological and cultural preservation
and conservation; self-sustaining micro-finance approaches to
poverty; and entrepreneurial training for third world refugee
and immigrant communities in the US. He has contributed to a
chapter on ‘Building Management Teams in the Early Stage
Venture’ in a major textbook on venture formation,
Essentials of Entrepreneurialism, published by John Wiley
& Sons, Inc. (2002).
Firth received A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and
MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Additionally, he has made paper presentations in doctoral
level graduate seminars in humanities departments such as
religious studies at Stanford University in areas that
appertain to certain IP creation domains in the think tank.
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