B.R. Inman Managing Director
Admiral Inman is one of Austin's most well-known and successful Angel investors who, throughout the past 16 years, has invested in over 30 start-up technology companies and taken an active role in their growth and development. His most noticeable successes were Dell and Oracle, where he served on their boards through their successful IPOs.

In his prior experience, he attained the rank of four-star U.S. Navy Admiral and served as Director of Naval Intelligence, Director of the National Security Agency, and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. After his retirement from the military, Admiral Inman became a leader in Austin's developing technology community as the Chairman and CEO of Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), a consortium of computer software and hardware makers created in 1982.

He later served as Chairman, President and CEO of Westmark Systems, Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding company. He also was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, and served as a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government.

Long active in educational concerns, Admiral Inman currently serves as a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, the American Assembly, and the Center for Excellence in Education. He is a Director of the Public Agenda Foundation and a member of the National Academy of Public Administration. In addition, he holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas.

He is currently on the Boards of Massey Energy Company and Gefinor Ventures portfolio companies BlueSpace Software, Kionix, MobiTV and Patton Surgical.