CEO
Damon is our CEO and has been guiding the ship since 2015 where he joined from Epic Ventures after investing in Blue Eye.
He is the past Managing Director for InnoVentures Capital Partners, a Salt Lake based venture fund. In 2001, he and his two partners founded InnoVentures and went on to raise and invest two funds into more than 100 companies including Entrata, Jive Communications and CarbonX.
Damon began his career in 1988 at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory. Mr. Kirchmeier served as a nuclear plant engineer and later managed a crew of Naval personnel and civilian engineers at a dual reactor plant.
Damon holds silver and bronze medals from the Masters World Championships of mountain biking and is the past Honorary Commander of the 421st fighter squadron – the Black Widows, call sign “Speed.”
Damon holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University and an MBA from the University of Utah. He is also a graduate of the Naval Nuclear Power School in Orlando, Florida.