Our Team
Mr. Carpenter is a Co-Founder and Principal of Harbour Bridge Ventures, Inc. (www.HBVinc.com), a firm founded to offer funding assistance, IT and business process outsourcing, and corporate development advisory services to both established and emerging companies. Since its founding in 2003, HBV has worked with over 100 clients and been involved in the development and launch of in excess of 25 new companies. He is also a Co Founder, Executive Vice President, and a Director of Ius Juris, LLC (www.IusJuris.com) a firm providing outsourced services to corporate legal departments and private practice attorneys. In August of 2007, Ius Juris was named as one of the top ten legal process outsourcing (LPO) firms (#8) in the world by Brown & Wilson’s “The Black Book of Outsourcing”, a leading outsourcing industry guide. Mr. Carpenter also is a Managing Partner of Harbour Bridge Capital Partners, LLC a Capital Advisory firm providing financing and capital advisory services worldwide to projects up to $300 million (USD).
Mr. Carpenter has authored numerous articles for industry publications, is a frequent speaker at entrepreneurial, technology and financial industry conferences, and has also been a guest speaker for courses at the university level. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Advisory Boards of several privately held companies.
A former banker, Bruce served as Executive Vice President for a regional U.S. commercial bank before moving to the software industry to assume the Presidency of a financial software company in 1983. In 1985, he helped found CBS Worldwide and was continuously involved in the successful growth and senior management of this group. He continued to fill senior executive roles with Fiserv after its acquisition of CBS Worldwide until leaving Fiserv to found Harbour Bridge Ventures in 2003. During his tenure with CBS Worldwide he helped to grow CBS to over US$ 220 million in annual revenues while serving over 500 leading financial institutions in more than 55 countries from its global network of offices. Fiserv, the corporate parent of CBS Worldwide (now known as Signature), is the leading global provider of technology and technology management services to the financial services industry including banking, brokerage, insurance, and benefits administration. With over 5 billion US$ in annual revenues, Fiserv serves over 18,000 clients worldwide. In addition to his responsibilities with Fiserv CBS Worldwide, Mr. Carpenter also served a key role in Fiserv’s merger and acquisition program and was responsible for developing and implementing formal processes for both Fiserv’s pre and post-acquisition M & A activities as well as leading and closing a number of Fiserv acquisitions.
Mr. Carpenter has a unique blend of over thirty-five years of executive management experience in the consulting, venture capital and private equity, banking and technology industries and holds a Bachelors Degree (BA) from Lafayette College and Masters Degree (MBA) from Columbia University. Long viewed as an innovator in the application of technology to produce competitive advantage in the financial services industry, he has provided both strategic banking and IT consultancy to many leading, global financial service brands including, Citigroup, ABN Amro, Prudential, CIBC, BCP, Westpac, Bank of America, TD Ameritrade, GE Capital and many others.
Bruce is a Charter Member of TIE, a global entrepreneurial mentoring organization, and the Turnaround Management Association, TMA. He has also served in numerous executive and fund raising leadership positions for local, regional and national charitable organizations and social agencies including the YMCA and United Way.
Mr. Chhaganlal is a Principal of Harbour Bridge Ventures, Inc. (www.HBVinc.com), a firm founded to offer funding assistance, IT and business process outsourcing, corporate development, market entry, and growth management services to both established and emerging companies. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Florida Technology Partners, LLP of Orlando, Florida, established in 2000. FTP has set up and manages a network of Angel investors funding early-stage technology companies. FTP also works with some of its portfolio companies in commercializing their technologies. FTP portfolio companies have raised over US $700 Million in funding between them. Mr. Chhaganlal is also President, CEO, and a Director of Ius Juris, LLC (www.iusjuris.com) a firm providing outsourced services to corporate legal departments and private practice attorneys. In August of 2007, Ius Juris was named as one of the top ten legal process outsourcing (LPO) firms (#8) in the world by Brown & Wilson’s “The Black Book of Outsourcing,” a leading outsourcing industry guide. Mr. Chhaganlal also is a Managing Partner of Harbour Bridge Capital Partners, LLC a Capital Advisory firm providing financing and capital advisory services worldwide to projects up to $300 million (USD).
Mr. Chhaganlal arrived in USA in early 2000 from New Zealand, where he held a variety of Senior Executive roles in the telecommunications and wireless industries in New Zealand. With Telecom New Zealand, he played a key role in transforming it from a Government Department, into a private company, which was sold to Bell Atlantic and Ameritech, both of USA , for NZ$4.2 Billion (US$2.5 Billion). Telecom then had a successful IPO. With BellSouth New Zealand, Kiran helped start-up the company to build out a nation-wide GSM wireless telecommunications network. The company, owned by BellSouth of USA and Singapore Technologies of Singapore, was sold to Vodafone in UK for NZ$750 Million in 1998. Mr. Chhaganlal was a key player in the entire process of building up the company and in its sale. He stayed for almost a year with Vodafone New Zealand and Australasia after the sale, before deciding to come to USA.
Mr. Chhaganlal graduated as a Barrister and Solicitor with law degrees from the London School of Economics and Grays’ Inn, both in London, England, as well as from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has practiced law in England, Fiji and New Zealand. His areas of specialty have been Corporate Law and Intellectual Property.
Mr. Chhaganlal has over 18 years of Senior Executive experience in the telecommunications, wireless and internet industries. He has created and led Business Development, Commercial, Legal, Regulatory and Corporate Communications departments in companies owned by American, British and Singaporean multi-nationals. He has extensive operational experience in start-ups, IPO’s and acquisitions, together with an in-depth background in international business development, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in USA.
Mr. Chhaganlal has been elected National President of the New Zealand Corporate Lawyers Association. He also has been a Charter Member of Rotary International as a member of the Rotary Club of Auckland Harbourside. He is also a Co-Founder, Charter Member and President of TiE Florida, a Chapter of TiE, which is an organization focused on entrepreneurs. He has spent at least 8 years each in India, Fiji, England and New Zealand, and now has been in USA for 13 years.
