Location Tampa Bay Area, Florida, United States Regions East Coast, Southern US Gender Male
Website www.bunkr.life/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
As an entrepreneur, Kurt believes in 'business as a force for good' combined with a ‘people-first’ leadership philosophy having founded, grown and sold three successful businesses as well as serving as an investor, advisor and board member for numerous others. Currently, Kurt is Chair and Co-Founder of BUNKR. BUNKR empowers consumers and
their households to organize, secure and share the most important information in their lives. The full product launch is expected in 2023. BUNKR believes privacy is a human right and is committed to a business model which generates on-going value in its customers’ lives.
Kurt is active with a variety of projects as an investor, mentor and through the Long Family Force for Good Foundation including work with Big Change, Virgin Strive, National Tennis Foundation, EasyPeasy, VentureWave, the Brookings Institute and Give Learn. With generous community matching the Long Family raised 1,800,000 meals for the people of Tampa Bay during the Covid crisis. Kurt co-founded and funded “Next Generation Entrepreneurs” with a major public school system in the United States.
Kurt founded and grew the software privacy company FairWarning with less $1 million of outside investment exclusively from life-long friends. FairWarning produced a 75x+ shareholder return as well as profits every year for over a decade. In 2019 FairWarning was acquired by Imprivata and continues to protect patient privacy in 8,500 healthcare facilities as well as financial institutions around the world. FairWarning was recognized as a Tampa Bay Top Workplace for 8 consecutive years as voted on by its employees.
Kurt started his career at the Kennedy Space Center as space shuttle databank mission lead for the Hubble Space Telescope, Venus Radar Mapper, Galileo (released probes into Jupiter atmosphere), Ulysses (Sun close fly-by) as well as numerous other missions. He has been granted nine patents in privacy and security technology globally and has a Master’s degree in Theoretical Mathematics and Bachelor’s degree in Business.
