Kimberly King-Burns

Kimberly King-Burns heads up the digital media and clean technology energy practices at convergenz/solutions, a technology brokerage, business development and management consultancy with offices in Los Angeles and Nassau that represents both U.S. and international clients.

In addition to advising early stage entrepreneurs in the music, film and blockchain space, developing micropayment and closed cryptocurrency solutions for the Bahamas and Caribbean, and actively integrating augmented reality and virtual reality solutions across theme park, retail and education platforms around the world, King-Burns is a veteran Internet professional with an extensive, multidisciplinary background leading digital product development, user-experience design, and online marketing. She began her new media journey with PBS, PolyGram Records, Billboard Magazine, Fairchild Group and Time Warner Interactive in the early 1990s, and has been engaged in shaping, defining, and communicating the online user experience ever since.

King-Burns is a managing partner with NetworkBahamas, EnergyCaribe and EnergyBahamas, technology collaborative advisories to the public/private sector throughout the Bahamas and Caribbean; served as EB-5 business development strategist with projects around the USA and Canada; was chief operating officer and president of Greenbridge Capital's digital media, alternative energy/green technology consulting groups in Los Angeles; serves as managing director offering securities through Five9Securities, LLC, member FINRA/SPIC; and is executive director of The Briland Modem Fund, a community development foundation serving the Out Islands of the Bahamas. King-Burns was raised on Harbour Island, Bahamas, and attended Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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