James Blom

Mr. Blom is well known and well regarded in international venture capital and supply chain security circles. Most recently, he co-founded the Alacrity Homeland Group with Admiral David M. Stone, a leading critical infrastructure security advisory firm located in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA. Mr. Blom heads Alacrity’s Silicon Valley and Asia Pacific operations, and works closely with private equity and venture capital firms in the maritime security, supply chain, and critical infrastructure market segments. He also currently serves as the Vice President of Corporate Development for Pacific Enterprise Capital, an investment management and venture capital firm based in Beijing, China and San Mateo, California.

Over the past sixteen years, Mr. Blom has received numerous sales and business development awards, and he has generated more than $2.5 billion in mergers and acquisitions, $420 million in sales, and $150 million in private equity financing. He has been a keynote speaker addressing the topics of homeland security and venture capital at gatherings in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden, and is an active angel investor in network infrastructure, network security, and payment security. Mr. Blom presently serves as a senior consultant to the CEO and management team at the VeriTainer Corporation, an early stage company developing specialized radiation detection technology to secure the containerized supply chain.

His family background has been instrumental in building his successful career. Mr. Blom is member of a highly regarded Norwegian/American shipping family that for more than four generations has owned, operated, and developed Liner Services (A.F. Klaveness); Cruise Ships (Royal Viking Lines); and Chartering, Brokerage, & Container Terminal Operations (Overseas Chartering, Overseas-Wiborg, & Overseas Shipping). Mr. Blom resides with his wife and son in San Anselmo, California.