
Brad Holt, M.P.I.A.
Brad Holt is the managing director of Pendleton Ventures. He started Pendleton Ventures in an effort to help individual inventors and companies develop and bring their ideas to market. He has two decades of international business experience, over 15 years focused on business development in the Asian marketplace. Brad uses his 20 years of product development successes to assist you in commercializing your idea or to improve your existing product line. Brad has managed the development and launch for many successful new and improved products. He has extensive experience with all phases of the product development process. He has also successfully executed market research and marketing programs.
By providing consulting, trade and investment due diligence, he assists Pacific Rim and North American companies expand their global operations. He also implemented operational controls, sales & marketing and product development strategies for Chinese, Japanese and Australian companies, and established their footholds in the US marketplace.
Brad is a frequent lecturer at UCSD’s International Relations and Pacific Rim Studies Graduate Program; speaker at American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai; Instructor at UC Irvine’s Global Operations Management program, a lecturer for UC Irvine’s Executive Brazilian program (Growth Strategies for Today's Organizations).
Prior to Pendleton Ventures, he served as the Asia General Manager of RPM’s StonCor Group for seven years, and held management and marketing positions with GN Netcom (a large European communications company), and AT&T. Mr. Holt has expertise in the management of sales, logistics, distribution, joint venture creation and technology licensing and transfer. His former clients include Asian and U.S. firms, spanning the fields of manufacturing, distribution, construction and engineering, architecture, design, entertainment, high technology, health care, and consumer products - such as Motorola, AMD, Intel, Budweiser, Lion Nathan, Baxter Healthcare, Glaxo Smith Kline, Roche, 3M, Bechtel, Fluor, L'Oreal, Huafei, Hangzhou TC, and Andrew Telecommunications etc.