Chad Kihm

My Role
Chad’s role as a Private Wealth Advisor is to learn how to guide tech entrepreneurs and executives in understanding how to avoid the same financial mistakes, and more, that he made when he ran his own game consulting business from 2015-2023.

Work History
Chad joined IronBridge in 2024. His first career was CEO and Co-founder of GamerSpeak, a mobile game consulting firm sold in 2021 to Netmarble F&C, Inc. While at Netmarble F&C, he built an NFT marketplace for fractional ownership of gaming NFTs.

Where I come from
I was born in Mission Viejo, California, and attended the same Christian private school in San Juan Capistrano for 12 years. Then I moved to San Luis Obispo, California to attend California Polytechnic State University where I got my bachelor’s in industrial engineering. I still live in SLO with my wife and two baby boys.

Education
While I graduated as an Industrial Engineer, my true passion was for entrepreneurship. I only got an engineering degree to give me the ability to communicate with both tech and business executives. That was how I planned to gain an edge.

My Why
As an entrepreneur, I made a few costly mistakes that cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes and compensation. Although, I also made some good choices that saved me over $250,000 in taxes.

I’ve been involved in various entrepreneurial communities, accelerator programs, incubator programs, angel investor groups, and VC groups. However, most of them do not offer education about business financial planning combined with personal financial planning that would maximize income and reduce taxes for everyone.

Furthermore, I had no available guidance about how to manage seven figures of capital after the sale of my company. Fortunately, I was able to spend the time to figure that out and now have an 88% chance to reach my target retirement goals.

Now that I have found peace with my financial future, I want to help other tech entrepreneurs and executives get there too.

Community Engagement
The local entrepreneur community in San Luis Obispo was a critical reason for my success at GamerSpeak. Thus, I try to remain involved as much as possible by attending local entrepreneurial events, by speaking at a yearly session on the importance of an advisory board, offering a yearly workshop showcasing GamerSpeak’s financial wins and losses, and by occasionally investing in the new wave of startups through the Angelcon competition.