Founded, scaled, and exited Elite Medical Scribes
BA, Business,Management, and Marketing, University of St. Thomas
MBA, St. Cloud State University – Herberger Business School

Principal, PRN Real Estate & Investments, Ltd
Former Monetization Man., Facebook
Former Consultant, McKinsey & Co.
BA, Finance, Washington University
MBA and Ms in Design Innovation, Northwestern University

Jon Watkins is the founder, co-owner, and COO of Dignitas Technologies. He started his M&S experience in the early ’90s by deciphering the SIMNET TDB format for PC-based research on GCFs. While he has worked in many disciplines within M&S, he has a particular interest in CGFs, virtual simulation, SNE, and lightweight simulators.

Founded, scaled, and exited Nuvotronics
BS, Physics, Virginia Tech
MS, Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech

After spending over thirty years as an executive for the Wall Street banks and large private conglomerates including a position as a senior executive with JP Morgan, where he relocated 2500 high paying jobs to the Tampa Bay area. Irv now lends his wealth of knowledge and expertise to Seedfunders as a Managing Partner.

Initial investor in Florida Funders and Seedfunders. Executive Coach for more than 60 Tampa Bay CEOs since 2005.

Eileen is a new arrival to St. Pete from Boston, where she was a management consultant in a variety of industries at McKinsey & Co and Hillcrest Group. In Boston, she’s been a member of the Boards of the Catholic Schools Foundation and Pioneer Institute, and the advisory boards Harvard Medical School, Mount Auburn Hospital, and Olin College of Engineering, among others. She holds her A.B. from Brown University and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Founder and CEO, StackFrame
BA, Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida

After retiring from the clothing manufacturing industry, Jim Aresty moved to Aspen, CO, where he became deeply involved in the Aspen Institute. He discovered St Petersburg in 2015 and began splitting time between the two cities. As an endeavor to bring some of his favorite aspects of the Aspen Institute to St Pete, Jim partnered with USF-St Petersburg to establish OPEN (Open Partnership Education Network). Jim is an active thinker, investor, and philanthropist.

Founder/CEO/President
Engineering & Computer Simulations
AA, Valencia College
BS, College of Business, University of Central Florida

COO, IDEM Systems
Principal, Pierce Consulting
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Florida

Cofounder and Managing Partner, Net Conversion
BA, University of Central Florida