Brian Hinman

Brian L. Hinman (born August 22, 1961 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an entrepreneur and investor in high technology businesses, especially the computer-based communications industry.

Hinman founded three successful (annual revenues greater than $500 million)[1][2][3] high technology companies; PictureTel Corp.[4] (Videoconferencing), Polycom (Conference call), and 2Wire (digital subscriber line).

Hinman and his co-founders took PictureTel public in November 1984, only three months after the company was founded, and two years before the first product was shipped.

[14] Hinman has also been involved with public-private partnerships by buying and funding an underfunded fire station in Los Gatos.

[17] Hinman received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award[18] in 2004 and was a national finalist in 2005.