Mar 28, 2017, 10:00 PM – Mar 29, 2017, 1:00 AM (UTC)
Catalyst Spaces, 1 South Orange Avenue, Suite 502, Orlando, 32801
Benjamin J. Patz serves as a Managing Director and General Partner at Florida Angel Nexus. He co-founded Coleman Technologies, Inc., serving as its President and Chief Executive Officer., where sales grew to $250 million. Ben has also been awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and UCF’s Professional Achievement Award.
Mr. Patz is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at the FAN Fund, an early stage investment fund focused on finding and supporting technology startups in the state of Florida. The FAN Fund has been in operation since October 2015. Prior to starting the FAN Fund, Mr. Patz was Chief Operating Officer for Presidio Networked Solutions, a multi-billion-dollar Information Technology solutions provider. He joined Presidio through the acquisition of Coleman Technologies, Inc. in 2009, the firm he co-founded and ran as CEO. At CTI, he grew sales to $250M while staying active in technical pursuits such as leading the UCF/CTI team to the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge, an autonomous vehicle competition. Mr. Patz has also been principal investigator on several SBIR grants relating to the application of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks to control systems. He has a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MSEE degree from the University of Central Florida. He was Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award for Florida in 2002 and received UCF’s Professional Achievement Award in 2006 and 2016.
FAN Fund
March 28 – 29, 2017
10:00 PM – 1:00 AM (UTC)
| 10:00 PM | Networking and Food |
| 11:00 PM | Fireside Chat |
| 12:00 AM | Networking |
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