Jeff Bartel

Jeff Bartel is an American business and civic leader, venture capitalist, board director, philanthropist, and educator. He is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group LLC, an alternative investment and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami with U.S. offices in Florida, New York, and California. The firm has a global platform with assets, projects, and clients exceeding $9 billion across multiple sectors, industries, and geographies in the United States and five continents. The firm invests in people, projects, and positions consistent with corporate best practices, ethical investment principles, social responsibility, sustainability and environmental stewardship, and public integrity. The Hamptons Group team has worked with over 500 private, public, and social sector entities, and has founded, funded, managed, sold, and advised over 250 companies, investments, transactions, and projects, including dozens of start-ups and IPOs. Hamptons Group’s business segments include Hamptons Group Capital, focused on private equity, credit, and venture capital; Hamptons Group Ventures, emphasizing start-up incubation and acceleration; Hamptons Group Catalyst, focused on social and environmental impact investments; Hamptons Group Real Estate, managing investment and finance across various commercial property types; and Hamptons Group Advisory, focused on select areas of consultancy in enterprise strategy, organizational leadership and corporate governance, marketplace optimization, business development and public-private partnerships, land use and development, and energy and utility infrastructure. Mr. Bartel is also a visiting lecturer and senior advisor at Harvard University, where he teaches part-time and mentors undergraduate and graduate students on creativity and innovation and social and commercial impact ventures. At Harvard, he also serves as an expert-in-residence, working with students and teams on fundraising and capital formation, business modeling, and commercializing ideas, and with faculty on academic programs, research, and course development. In addition, he is on the adjunct faculty at the University of Florida College of Law and lectures at the University of Miami Herbert Business School and Duke University, teaching MBA and law school students on leadership, strategy, venture capital, organizations and enterprise management, negotiation, and career and life design.

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