Jeff Bartel is an American business and civic leader, venture capitalist, board director, and philanthropist. He is chairman and managing director of Hamptons Group LLC, a privately held venture capital, real estate, and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Miami with offices in Florida, New York, California, and the UK. The firm has a global platform with assets, investments, projects, and clients exceeding $10 billion across multiple sectors, industries, and geographies in the United States and worldwide. Jeff is also a visiting lecturer, senior advisor, and expert-in-residence at Harvard University, where he has helped design and develop the pioneering program on creativity and entrepreneurship and serves as a founding member of its board. In addition, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Florida College of Law and the University of Miami Business School, teaching courses on leadership, strategy, leadership, venture capital, organizations, and enterprise management. Over the course of his career, Jeff has led privately held entities, served as a senior executive and corporate officer at Fortune 200® companies, and worked early on in private law practice and government service. A devoted philanthropist and community steward, he has served on the boards of leading commercial, educational, and cultural organizations and has been honored by dozens of business alliances, community organizations, universities, and governmental bodies for his leadership, contributions, social responsibility, and ethics. Jeff is a highly sought-after key opinion leader, a frequent speaker before corporate, chamber, and business trade audiences, and a trusted adviser to top public officials and policymakers. Jeff has authored and been featured in over 200 published articles in The New York Times, Forbes, AP News, Yahoo! News, US News & World Report, Miami Herald, Business Journals, NASDAQ News, The Real Deal, and Daily Business Review. With four decades as a transformative leader in commerce, law, government, academia, and philanthropy, Jeff has founded, funded and led award-winning commercial and social enterprises, driven execution, growth and best practices, optimized operations, talent and performance, built outstanding, inclusive and transformative teams, and generated enduring value for stakeholders in multitudes of organizations. He is recognized as a visionary strategist, collaborative partner, high-stakes problem solver, engaged mentor, inspiring servant leader, and compelling influencer with deep expertise in forging and maximizing opportunity and building lasting intellectual, financial, relational, and social capital.