Bert Vermeulen - Senior Fellow at the DaVinci Institute, and the Founder of Corp21
Bert Vermeulen has worked around the world for a variety of businesses, both large and small, and both successful and not so successful. This includes:
- Helping to build a $160M/year tape drive business for Hewlett Packard in Bristol, UK.
- Partnering with a Colorado based-entrepreneur to grow a manufacturing business to over $25M/year in revenues and then successfully selling it. He then helped the new parent company acquire and build other similar businesses in Ireland and Hungary.
- Providing in depth help and guidance to over 30 startups and smaller enterprises during the last 5 years, some of which have done quite well. This has provided exposure to a number of excellent entrepreneurs as well as some that were flawed and others that were lucky.
- Creating an industry association in an emerging retail field (meal prep) and providing consulting support to over 400 enterprises in this field.
- Doing independent research on why some companies succeed while others don’t.
- Serving as a guest presenter on entrepreneurship at a number of universities and industry groups.
Recent Events
- Oct 3, 2011 - Night with a Futurist - PANELIST
- May 24, 2011 - Micro Agronomy Meet Up - HOST
- Oct 17, 2009 - Inventor Boot Camp 2009 - SPEAKER
- Jun 15, 2009 - Startup Junkie Underground - PANELIST
- May 19, 2007 - Completing the Flight Plan: Valuation, Business Transition - INSTRUCTOR
- Mar 31, 2007 - The Flight School - Piloting a Profitable Growth Business - INSTRUCTOR
- Jul 15, 2006 - Seed Capital Boot Camp - INSTRUCTOR
