Firth Griffith

Education

A.B. cum laude
Harvard University

MBA
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Highlights

Co-founder of Mentor Venture Partners, Beachhead Capital, and Athabasca

Initiated strategic trade, crafted investment strategy, managed corporate planning and advised subsidiaries of Mitsui & Co.

Fluent in German, Italian, Latin, Thai, Japanese and both modern spoken Chinese (Mandarin)

Advises country-centric non-profits on global problems and provides entrepreneurial training for third world refugee and immigrant communities in the U.S.

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Firth Griffith, Strategic Advisor

Firth Griffith is the co-founder of several venture capital facilities and a global think tank. The venture funds include Mentor Venture Partners, an early stage information technology and corporate co-investment partnership; Beachhead Capital, a networking and communications infrastructure seed fund; and Athabasca, a facility that originates molecular and cellular therapeutics ventures.

Each facility draws resources from the other and relates to the think tank as the foundational entity: the latter opens new ambitious, historic horizons for the highest levels of leadership, industry and venture creation, new institutional initiatives at the intersection of the public and private sectors, and the global financial markets.

Mentor calls on seasoned technology executives, corporate partners and founders to address the most inexorable problems related to originating a company with often first-time entrepreneurs. Beachhead selects and seeds the most seasoned serial entrepreneurs originating products, which simplify, accelerate or enhance the aggregation and delivery of data, voice and video services. Athabasca advises and funds leading scientist-practitioners with discontinuity-enabling ideas poised to solve the most obdurate problems in translational bio-medical research.

Finally, Archimedes Axle is a global think tank that caters to the highest levels of leadership in the public and private sectors and tackles seemingly intractable problems in the global political economy across multiple fields and industries. It develops paradigm-changing IP based on an original, one-of-a-kind scientific methodology, which has been developed over fourteen years and from multiple fields in the natural and human sciences.

Prior to the creation of these investment and advisory practices, for almost twenty years Firth initiated strategic trade, crafted investment strategy, managed corporate planning and advised subsidiaries of Mitsui & Co. in China, Japan, Latin America, the Caribbean Basin, and the US, particularly Silicon Valley. He has a wide range of language training including German, Italian, Latin, Thai, Japanese and both modern spoken Chinese (Mandarin) and classical Chinese literature.

In addition, Firth advises developing country-centric non-profits focusing on some of the most persistent global problems, including archeological and cultural preservation and conservation; self-sustaining micro-finance approaches to poverty; and entrepreneurial training for third world refugee and immigrant communities in the US. He has contributed to a chapter on ‘Building Management Teams in the Early Stage Venture’ in a major textbook on venture formation, Essentials of Entrepreneurialism, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2002).

Firth received A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Additionally, he has made paper presentations in doctoral level graduate seminars in humanities departments such as religious studies at Stanford University in areas that appertain to certain IP creation domains in the think tank.