Drew Bartkiewicz

Drew Bartkiewicz is a twenty-five year software veteran and Chairman of Patriapps, the leading veteran venture lab in America.  In 2016, he was named one of the Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and his company (then “lettrs”) was named a Top 25 veteran founded business by Forbes that same year.  He has published two books, “Unseen Liability – the Collision of Risk and Technology” and “Poetguese,” in collaboration with the acclaimed author, Paulo Coelho.  Drew graduated from West Point in 1989 and earned his Masters in Business Administration and Public Policy from Yale University in 1994.  He served in Italy and Iraq as a field artillery officer with the 82nd Airborne, where he received the Bronze Star and Army Commendation medals during the Gulf War in 1991.  He speaks four languages and is the co-inventor of three USPTO patents with his kids. Drew’s wife of 23 years, Araceli, is a Spanish immigrant and schoolteacher who became a US citizen in 2020.