Audrey Pukash Bilsborrow

Audrey left the traditional corporate world for the dotcom boom in 1998. Her first start-up was Koz, which was Facebook before Facebook – so naturally, people were appalled at the idea of sharing their photos publicly online…well, at least for another 5 or so years. Audrey stayed in the dotcom world, learning and surviving through the bubble burst with a never-before-seen facial animation solution and cutting-edge interactive digital advertising medium.

In 2008, Audrey joined WANTED Technologies (with Brizo’s co-founders) where she was a part of the successful exit–Gartner still uses the WANTED SaaS platform for their F500 clients. In 2018, Ian Delisle shared with Audrey his idea for Brizo as a “firehose” for obtaining industry web footprint analytics to be all encompassing in a similar vein of WANTED’s experience but at trailblazing levels outside of the HR industry. Audrey joined Brizo as a founding member in 2019. This continuous curiosity for the SaaS world is where Audrey has spent most of her career, which she attributes to her competitive nature from a lifetime of athletics.

Audrey’s athletic prowess landed her a spot in the Inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame Class for Kent Place School in Summit, NJ. In 2019, she was also the top vote-getter in NJ.com’s Mt. Rushmore for the top Kent Place athletes of all time. Audrey was recruited into the defending NCAA field hockey champions at UNC but despite career ending ankle injuries, a stick and ball are very much a part of her life with golf, tennis, and pickleball. After UNC, she remained on the Chapel Hill side of Durham (as a Tar Heel, this is the only way to describe where home is.).

Audrey is an entrepreneur at heart and became a certified franchise consultant to unite potential business owners with franchise opportunities. Audrey found the best life partner in her husband, Sean, also a former college athlete. Together, they have hosted charity golf tournaments on a local level as well as through former NFL players. Audrey and Sean also built and recently had a successful exit for the largest family-owned healthy capable vending machine business in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. Together, they have 3 amazing student-athletes and 2 incredibly odd dogs.