Drew Bartkiewicz is a businessman, inventor, author and serial entrepreneur. He is best known as the Founder and CEO of Patriapps, Inc, a veteran founded software venture studio that has launched applications in cyber risk, media, communications and commerce. While serving as CEO of lettrs, Inc. Mr Bartkiewicz patented the cyber signature of fusing biometrics with mobile signatures and authentication.
Mr. Bartkiewicz has been involved with the World Economic Forum’s Future of the Internet initiative since 2009 and in 2016 was named a Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs. His first media company, lettrs, was named a Forbes Top 25 Veteran Founded Business that same year.
After managing the Southern Europe of salesforce.com, Mr. Bartkiewicz had founded the cyber insurance businesses for Darwin Professional and the Hartford. In addition to launching the first cyber risk analytics platform for data aggregation, Mr Bartkiewicz has also been recognized as an expert in cloud computing, technology aggregation and digital national security.
He has over 20 years of information technology experience and is a decorated combat veteran of the 82nd Airborne, having earned the Bronze Star medal in Iraq in 1991. He speaks four languages and is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point and the Yale University School of Management. He also published the first book of letters from a mobile network, “Poetguese,” with Paulo Coelho, author of a worldwide best seller, “The Alchemist.”
Drew Bartkiewicz resides in New York City and Connecticut with his wife, Araceli, and their three children Blake, Dane, and Ana.