Drew Bartkiewicz Explained

Drew Bartkiewicz
Birth Name:Drew Charles Bartkiewicz[1]
Occupation:Entrepreneur
Executive
Author
Known For:Founder and CEO of lettrs
Partner:Araceli Blasco
Children:3

Drew Bartkiewicz is an American businessman, executive, author and serial entrepreneur from Collinsville, Connecticut.[2] [3] [4] [5] He is best known as the founder and CEO of lettrs, an online platform for traditional letter writing.[2] [4] [6] He formerly served as vice president of strategic services at Mashery and vice president of E&O in cyber and new media markets for The Hartford Financial Services Group, where he founded that company's technology and cyber-risk business.[5] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] He has also been involved with the World Economic Forum's Future of the Internet initiative since 2009.[12] As CEO, Drew Bartkiewicz signed the first collective bargaining agreement of a messaging network with the Major League Baseball Players association.[13]

Early life

Bartkiewicz is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and Yale University, where he received an MBA.[14] [15] [16] He served as an officer with the United States Army's 82nd Airborne Division during the Gulf War.[15]

Career

Following Bartkiewicz's military career, he served as the vice president for BroadVision's Industry Solutions Group.[15] [17] [18] He later became a director for Salesforce.com's business in Italy, Spain and Portugal.[19] [20] He also served as vice president and lead underwriter for Darwin Professional Underwriter's technology and information liability group, where he created Darwin Professional's Tech/404 product.[21] [22] [23] Darwin Professional is a specialty insurance company.[23]

He was a founder and CEO of CloudInsure, a company that underwrites insurance for cloud computing environments.[11] [24] He was also CEO of CyberRiskPartners, which develops risk management platforms for cloud computing companies.[25] In 2010, Bartkiewicz founded CyberFactors, which provides platforms for the management of cyber risk and liability.[11]

In 2011, Bartkiewicz became vice president of strategic services at Mashery, a provider of API enablement and management services.[7] [26] Intel purchased Mashery in 2013.[27]

In 2012, Bartkiewicz co-founded the social messaging platform lettrs with his wife Araceli.[6] [28] [29] The app has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time, BBC, and BusinessWeek.[2] [4] [30] [31] Bartkiewicz also created the lettrs Foundation, an organization that partners with schools and non-profits to improve literacy through social networking.[32] In 2014, Bartkiewicz published Poetguese: A Utopia Where Words Matter, the First Book of lettrs in collaboration with author Paulo Coelho. The book contains a collection of mobile phone letter correspondences originally written in Portuguese with a foreword by Coelho.[33]

Bartkiewicz's venture Twignature announced partnership with Dr. Harvey W. Schiller as a chairman of the company. In same year his property lettrs was also mentioned as Forbes Top 25 Veteran founded business. He is expanding the Twignature offering to verify, authenticate and "notarize" e-signatures on social networks and emerging currency networks like Blockchain and Bitcoin.[34] Bartkiewicz was named by Goldman Sachs as One of Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2016, joining the company of earlier members, Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey.[35]

Bibliography

Personal life

Bartkiewicz is the son of Barbara and Fred Bartkiewicz. He is married to Araceli Blasco of Madrid, Spain. Together they have two sons and a daughter.[33]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Drew Charles Bartkiewicz . West Point Association of Graduates . 8 May 2022.
  2. News: Lettrs Tackles Letter-Sending in the Digital Age. Lauren Goode. 31 January 2013. The Wall Street Journal.
  3. News: The Washington Post. June 20, 2001. Plugged In for Maximum Efficiency; Undaunted by Dot-Com Flameout, Companies Move To Streamline Operations by Harnessing the Web. Leslie Walker.
  4. Lettrs Sends USPS Mail from Your Smartphone. Time. November 20, 2013. 24 April 2013.
  5. Web site: Covering Cyber Threats Companies spent more than $6.3 million on data breaches in 2007. Hartford Business Journal. November 20, 2013.
  6. Web site: Lettrs allows users to send actual mail to friends and family. PSFK. November 20, 2013.
  7. News: Drew Bartkiewicz. San Francisco Business Journal. November 20, 2013.
  8. News: Just What The IT Industry Needs: More Regulation; Perhaps one way out of the recession is to create a cottage industry of lawyers, consultants, and other advisers with CYA added to their titles. Rob Preston. 17 August 2009. InformationWeek.
  9. News: Information Malpractice. Risk Management. October 2008. 55. 10.
  10. Web site: Tweet Twice For Social Media Insurance. Hartford Business Journal. November 20, 2013.
  11. Web site: Are Cloud Companies in Denial About Risk?. All Things D. November 20, 2013.
  12. Web site: Drew Bartkiewicz. Portal Vision. November 20, 2013.
  13. Web site: Wright. Jarah. lettrs Inks Deal with MLBPA. Ballpark Digest. 15 December 2016.
  14. Web site: Web 2.0: Unprecedented data liabilities for users and businesses. ZDNet. November 20, 2013.
  15. News: What's old is new again. National Petroleum News. December 2001.
  16. Web site: Drew Bartkiewicz. Talk Forum NYC. November 20, 2013.
  17. News: Getting Personal. Drew Bartkiewicz. August 16, 2001. Daily Deal.
  18. Web site: Questions for Drew Bartkiewicz, Broadvision, Inc.. Enterprise Apps Today. November 20, 2013.
  19. News: En un momento en que la mayoría de las compañías del sector de las TI. 1 April 2003. Comunicaciones World.
  20. News: CRM online de salesforce.com. 1 December 2002. PC World.
  21. News: Specialty Insurers Unveil New Offerings. Susanne Sclafane. 5 March 2007. National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management Edition.
  22. News: $2.4 million in postage. 1 April 2007. Rough Notes.
  23. News: Business Update; Darwin Professional Underwriters targets Tech//404 for health care organizations. 9 January 2007. Science Letter.
  24. Web site: How to protect your company against vanishing cloud services. Gigaom. November 20, 2013.
  25. News: Interop: Cloud Security Remains A Sticking Point. 21 October 2010. CMP TechWeb.
  26. News: Seeking reach, keeping control; APIs, social sharing platforms allow marketers to regulate content access. CHRISTOPHER HOSFORD. 13 February 2012. BtoB.
  27. Web site: Source: Mashery Is Selling To Intel For More Than $180M. Tech Crunch. November 20, 2013.
  28. Web site: Lettrs Brings Snail Mail Back to The Future . Calin Van Paris . Mashable . 19 June 2012 . 3 September 2014.
  29. Web site: Lettrs now transforms your Android device into a personal writing desk . Paul Sawers . The Next Web . 14 July 2014 . 3 September 2014.
  30. Web site: Webscape: Letter writing . BBC. 28 June 2013 . 3 September 2014.
  31. Web site: You've Sent Mail: A Letter-Writing App Forces Users to Slow Down . https://web.archive.org/web/20140130224359/http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/youve-sent-mail-a-letter-writing-app-forces-users-to-slow-down . dead . January 30, 2014 . Devin Leonard . BusinessWeek. 30 January 2014 . 3 September 2014.
  32. Web site: lettrs Platform Launches on Android, Bringing Handwritten Letters Back to the Mainstream. Josh Robert Nay. TruTower . 14 July 2014. 3 September 2014.
  33. News: Drew Bartkiewicz: And the Lost Love of lettrs . Rivera . Jeff . 20 May 2015 . AXS Digital Group LLC.
  34. Web site: Media company "Twignature" Surpasses $3M in Funding, Launches a Cutting Edge e-Signature Service on Twitter. November 9, 2017.
  35. Web site: Adding a signature to Twitter for the personal touch. November 18, 2017.
  36. Book: Unseen Wealth: Report of the Brookings Task Force on Intangibles. registration. 100. drew bartkiewicz AND unseen wealth.. 2001. Brookings Institution Press. November 20, 2013.

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