Bruns H. Grayson is a Managing Partner at ABS Ventures, a venture capital firm, where he has managed all of the firm's partnerships since 1983. A majority of his investments have been in data communication and software and he has served as a Director of many private and public companies over the last 30 years. Prior to ABS Ventures, Bruns was an associate at McKinsey and Co., a management consulting firm, from 1980 to 1983 and a venture capitalist at Adler & Co. from 1980 to 1983. Bruns has served as a Director of Everbridge, Inc., a provider of communications solutions, since 2009. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College, a Master of Arts from Oxford University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School and was elected a Rhodes Scholar in 1974. He served in the US Army in Vietnam and retired as a captain in 1970.