Areas of Responsibility - Job Description: 

Mr. Brilling is the Executive Director of Seattle Universitys Entrepreneurship Center, and has over 20 years of executive leadership experience in financial services, holding titles of CEO, COO, CIO, and EVP. During this time, he was responsible for a number of functional disciplines: information technology, sales, marketing, human resources and training. Additionally, he has been part of several start-up ventures and over 10 years of consulting experience, most notably Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Throughout his career, Mr. Brilling has played significant roles in mergers and acquisitions, alliance formations, new business development, and spokesman for the reinsurance industry. He holds a masters degree in Business Administration and bachelors degree in quantitative techniques. Along with his current Seattle U responsibilities, he is actively involved on five boards, focusing on organizational transformation, market segmentation, and marketing strategies.

Entrepreneurship Center features:
Specialization in Entrepreneurship
Highly successful annual business plan competition
Service to community via Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinic

Areas of Expertise - Employment History: 

President, Dragonfly Ventures
2000-2004

Provided strategic-level consulting services ranging from IT portfolio creation and alliance formation/management, to milestone control of mission-critical software applications.

Swiss Re America
Armonk, New York
1999 - 2000

Second largest reinsurance company in the world, headquartered in Zurich.

SVP and CIO, member of the executive team, reported to President.

Responsible for information technology, Division Americas. Created and built e-business solutions. Established a professional infrastructure: strategic planning, project planning and management, research and development.

Andersen Consulting (now Accenture)
Northbrook, Illinois
1997 - 1999

Largest consulting firm in the world.

Associate Partner, reporting to Partner in charge of worldwide Alliance Practice.

Responsible for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) alliance practice and projecting technology trends. Also responsible for the Oracle alliance relationship.

Sedgwick Re (now Guy Carpenter)
Seattle, WA
1985 - 1997

Second largest reinsurance broker in the world, headquartered in London

COO and CIO, EVP Sales and Marketing, reporting to the President

Managed diverse functions for all North American reinsurance and wholesale companies: IT, human resources, training, facilities, and advertising. Responsible for national sales and marketing of fee-for-service business, as well as intermediary services supporting this business.

Seafirst Bank (now Bank of America), VP IT, VP Marketing
SWAN Computers, Partial Owner/VP Retail Sales/Service
The Boeing Company, Systems Manager
Arthur Andersen; Consulting Manager

Education - Personal History: 

BS, Business Administration, Washington State University
MBA, Washington State University

Any special topic or expertise you'd like to concentrate on this year?:

Like to talk about leadership development

Civic Organization Memberships or Professional Affiliations: 

Board of Advisors for ZAAZ, Insight Ventures, Ivus Industries, RuttlerAdams, Court Trax

When and where do you hold meetings with students? 

Either early morning or toward end of day. / SU campus or Eastside in the evening

Any special requirements for students for the first meeting? 

People who are really serious about being Mentored. Resume, 5 year goals, Myers-Briggs results would be great.

Mentor since Fall 1997
Will mentor graduate students