Bay McLaughlin

Brinc,Co-Founder & COO

Bay is the co-founder of Brinc, a global IoT accelerator and platform based in Hong Kong with offices in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and London. Having spent half of his career in or founding startups, he now brings his experience and operations abilities to connect the dots from Asia to Silicon Valley for IoT companies from around the world.

As a founding team member of Apple’s global SMB channel and founder of their first Entrepreneurship Evangelism channel, Bay created a sales division that has generated more than $250M USD and is still the highest grossing team globally within Apple SMB. With 8 software and 22 hardware portfolio holdings, he’s successfully made the transition from digital to physical and from San Francisco to Asia.

As a regular mentor for Chinaccelerator, the Thiel Foundation, and other startup ecosystems in Asia, Bay is passionate about investing in founders with a global vision. He speaks regularly at conferences, most recently at SXSW, Web Summit, Echelon, RIOT, RISE and LAUNCH, Hong Kong’s inaugural consumer IoT Summit.

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Bay是Brinc的联合创始人，Brinc是一家位于香港的全球IoT加速器和平台，在深圳，广州和伦敦设有办事处。他已经花了一半的职业生涯在创业公司工作或者自己创业，目前他将他一直以来积累的经验和运营能力帮助来自全球的物联网公司连接亚洲与硅谷，帮助他们获得更好的成长。

作为苹果全球SMB Channel的创始团队成员，以及第一个Entrepreneurship Evangelism channel的创始人，Bay创建的销售部门，产生了超过2.5亿美元，仍然是全球苹果中小企业中最高的团队。他有8个软件和22个硬件产品组合，成功地从数字化到物理过渡，从旧金山到亚洲。

Bay作为Chinaccelerator，Thiel基金会以及亚洲其他创业生态系统的常客，热衷于投资具有全球视野的创始人。他在会议上定期发言，最近在SXSW，Web Summit，Echelon，RIOT，RISE和LAUNCH等香港首个消费者IoT峰会上发言。