Masters in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship

Drew Bartkiewicz is the Chairman and Founder of Patriapps, a veteran backed Software Development Lab. Patriapps has grown ventures with Disney, the NFL, the U.S. Army, the United Way, Google, NASA, Space-X Amex and various Fortune 500 brands. The venture lab develops a portfolio of Impactful Software-as-a-Service Applications for mobilizing AI in leader development, mental performance, mindful creativity, training and human potential. Previous to Patriapps Drew was part of two IPO’s as an executive at BroadVision and salesforce.com, and also in executive positions at Mashery Software, The Hartford & United Technologies.

From 2005 to 2010, Drew was a leader in the advancement of cyber risk as an early market cyber risk underwriter, author and pioneer, having gone public with Darwin Professional Underwriters. He founded and sold CyberFactors and CloudInsure. In 2016, Goldman Sachs named Drew as a 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and Forbes listed Patriapps (then lettrs) as a Top 25 Veteran Founded business that same year. He has been written about and published in the NYT, Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Time and many others.  He has worked and lived in 6 different countries.

Drew holds several USPTO technology patents, including e-signature methods that leverage his background in e-learning, AI and cyber risk. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, published two books (Unseen Liability and Poetguese, with author Paulo Coelho), and he has testified before Congress about emerging technology and AI challenges for society and veterans. Drew has been a guest lecturer at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and he is dedicated to scaling personal leadership and instinctive innovation as achievable and accessible life-skills for young adults. His next book is entitled "The Regenerative Self."

As the current CEO and Co-Founder of Leaderly and Trainerly AI, Drew leads sustained human development applications by intersecting technology, psychology, and behavioral sciences. He is the inventor of AI-based ventures for mobilizing music and imagination, for fusing mixology and health, and for enabling better self-discovery with life navigation.

Drew received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from West Point (’89) and his MBA from Yale University (’94), and he speaks 4 languages. He is a combat veteran of the 82nd Airborne and received the Bronze Star during the Gulf War.  Drew resides in Connecticut and Rhode Island with his wife, Araceli, who together raised three children now in their twenties.