Management Team

Since July 2016, Mr. Chen has served as chief financial officer of Kent Moore Capital, an investment and advisory firm focused on specialty finance, where he also currently sits on the board of directors. Also, since 2016, he has served as chief financial officer of BioIntegrate, a regenerative medicine company. Mr. Chen has been involved in blockchain related projects since 2018, and, in 2021, he co-founded IHBit Global, a diversified blockchain holding company with assets including a crypto exchange, token project, electronic sports team and basketball team. From 2012 to 2016, Mr. Chen was a director for Hudson International, a global private investment firm. From 2008 to 2012, he led the emerging markets investment banking team at Oppenheimer Investments North America. Prior to joining Oppenheimer, Mr. Chen was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan. Mr. Chen has a B.S. degree from Brown University.

Prior to joining Phunware, Chris was a partner for 15 years at Bracewell LLP in Dallas, Texas, an associate at Jones Day and served in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps.

His diverse transactional and regulatory experience included representing clients in various capacities in, among other things, complex, bespoke and customized credit facilities, structured financings, swaps and derivatives, insurance finance, corporate acquisitions, financial instrument and commodity purchase and sale and repurchase transactions and related banking, financial and other regulatory matters.

Chris has a BBA in Finance with honors from the University of Miami, a JD from the Southern Methodist University School of Law and an LLM in Banking & Finance Law with distinction from the University of London.

Prior to serving as Phunware’s Vice President of Accounting and Financial Reporting at Phunware, Mr. Botkin was Phunware’s Controller, from 2017 to 2021. Before joining Phunware, Brendhan served as Chief Financial Officer at Acuity Healthcare Solutions, a provider of in-home post-hospitalization care, from 2016 to 2017, and at Circular Energy, a Texas-based renewable energy company, from 2014 to 2015.

From 2011 to 2014, he was the Corporate Controller at Vast.com. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Propane Direct Enterprises from 2009 to 2011.Mr. Botkin began his career in public accounting at Ernst & Young in Austin, TX, and KPMG in Atlanta, GA. He also held consulting roles, including at Tatum LLC from 2007 to 2009.

Mr. Botkin earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration – Accounting from Auburn University and a Master in Professional Accounting (MAC) from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Botkin is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) licensed in the state of Texas.