Heather Brien

Heather Brien is a Partner and Head of Operations at Invictus Growth Partners (“Invictus”) and has over 20 years of operational leadership experience with financial services and technology firms.
Heather currently serves on the board of LinkLive.
Prior to joining Invictus, Heather served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Voleon Capital Management (“Voleon”), based in Berkeley, CA, for eight years, supporting its growth from $5 million to over $2 billion in assets under management.
She joined Voleon in 2009 as Head of Trading & Business Development, and became COO in 2010.
She led the firm’s business and legal efforts, investor relations, contracts, negotiations, vendor management, company-wide project management, recruiting, fund launches, new asset classes, international expansions, and all regulatory and compliance efforts.
Prior to Voleon, Heather was with AT&T for two years as the Director of Alternative Channels for the company’s Voice over IP (“VOIP”) business, based in New York.
While with AT&T, she worked on product marketing, developing retail sales channels and product branding.
Prior to AT&T, Heather was with Sun Microsystems, based in Menlo Park, CA, for seven years.
At Sun, She served as a Senior Program Manager for new hardware and software products and solutions, leading cross functional marketing and engineering teams and working with external technology partners.