Brooks is a repeat entrepreneur who has helped to build and sell three category-leading businesses: *Multex > Reuters*FAST > Microsoft*Serverside > GemaltoHis first job out of college was as an enterprise software engineer, and he's spent the last 15+ years specializing in "FinTech" across capital markets, banking, insurance, and payments. He's spent more than half of his career living in or working for a European-based firm. In 2012, Brooks founded the fintech venture capital platform, FinTech Collective, with his long-time partner, Gareth Jones.