Partner
The Buy Build Fund & Assert Digital Ventures
Andrew Breen is a partner at The Buy Build Fund & Assert Digital Ventures where he acquires & grows small, cash-flow-positive businesses into midsized cash-positive businesses. Breen uses his years of digital product experience to expand the market. In addition, Breen advises leading companies from startups and investors to Fortune 1000 companies on digital products and transformation.
Breen was most recently the senior vice president of Digital for Argo Group (NYSE: ARGO), a multi-billion dollar commercial underwriter where he led the company’s transition to a digital business and oversaw Argo Ventures, their early stage investment fund. Argo’s businesses went from zero digital revenue to over $500 hundred million in three years.
Formerly, as vice president of product in American Express’s Enterprise Digital business unit, Breen led multiple teams creating and delivering next-generation digital products focused on new customer experiences alongside Amex’s award-winning customer service. His teams built natural language (NLU) AI messaging and predictive algorithmic solutions across mobile and web properties to drive revenue, loyalty, and satisfaction.
Breen pursues his love of teaching as an adjunct professor at NYU's Stern School of Business developing and teaching graduate courses in technology product management, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Breen also has taught a graduate entrepreneurship course at NYU's Courant Institute helping CS students learn to commercialize their inventions.
