Noel Brady - ProjectMark

Noel Brady is co-founder and COO of ProjectMark, a construction-specific CRM. He spent 10 years as a project manager across Irish, UK, and US markets, most recently with Tishman Construction on a $2 billion project in downtown San Francisco.

The company started because Noel kept seeing contractors lose work despite being qualified. "Death by a thousand cuts" - messy BD processes, uncoordinated proposals, disjointed procurement. He and his co-founders knew these companies could deliver on site, but they were getting knocked out in the selection process.

The bigger problem: 47% of construction workers are aging out over the next few years. Knowledge lives in people's heads, and if that transfer doesn't happen, the industry's in trouble. You can't just pick up the phone and call the guy who built a s ...