“What can be mobile will be mobile, and AI will help us mobilize the greatest habit in human history: leadership.” - Drew Bartkiewicz

Drew Bartkiewicz is the CEO of Leaderly AI and the Chairman and Founder of Patriapps, the longest running veteran founded venture studio.

Patriapps has grown ventures with Disney, the NFL, the U.S. Army, the United Way, Amex and various Fortune 500 brands. The venture studio develops a portfolio of Impactful Software-as-a-Service Applications for leader development, mental performance, mindful creativity, AI and human potential. Previous to Patriapps Drew was part of two IPO’s as an executive at BroadVision and salesforce.com, and alsoserved as an executive at Mashery Software, The Hartford & United Technologies. From 2005 to 2010, he was a leader in the advancement of Cyber Risk as an early market cyber risk underwriter, author and pioneer, having gone public with Darwin Professional Underwriters. He has led and lived in 6 different countries.

In 2016, Goldman Sachs named Drew as a 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs and Forbes listed Patriapps (then lettrs) as a Top 25 Veteran Founded business that same year. He has been written about and published in the NYT, Wall Street Journal, the BBC, Time and many others.Drew holds several USPTO technology patents,including e-signature methods that leverage his background in e-learning, AI and cyber risk. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum, published two books (Unseen Liability and Poetguese, (with author Paulo Coelho), and he has testified beforeCongress about emerging technology and mobility challenges for society and veterans.

Drew has been a guest lecturer at universities in the U.S. and Europe, and he is dedicated to scaling personal leadership and instinctive innovation as achievable and accessible life-skills for young adults. As the creator of Leaderly, he leads sustained human applications by intersecting technology, psychology and behavioral sciences.

Drew received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from West Point (’89) and his MBA from Yale University (’94), and he speaks 4 languages. He is an Army combat veteran of the 82nd Airborne and he received the Bronze Star during the Gulf War in 1991, serving under John Abizaid.

Drew began white boarding the operating system of Leaderly AI with his West Point Prep School roommate and fellow aerospace engineer, Alber Alba, a silver star combat veteran and CLO of Leaderly AI.

Drew Bartkiewicz was named by Goldman Sachs as a Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2016 for his uncanny ability to balance purpose with profits, innovation with integrity.   He started lettrs as a highly successful social messaging network that eventually patented the certified digital signature for all classes of mobile communications and media.  Drew has published two books and was described by Karl Ravech of ESPN as "the most contrarian voice in today's disposable messages, to reinvent messages meant to last...and the autograph as we know it."    

The lettrs app has experienced over 2M downloads and already has seen 6 billion data calls on its growing network of new social media that is created 100% from signed, sealed mobile letters.   Drew served with distinction in the Gulf War 1991 with the 82nd Airborne and was a featured subject in the 2015 National Geographic book, "Veteran Voices."    His company lettrs has patented the use of biometrics for certified mobile signatures and in December 2016 signed a deal as the exclusive network of MLB Players mobile and social autographs.   Combining his 10 years in cyber and software-as-a-service Drew patented SignID early in the industry for digital memorabilia .

He is a father of three and his wife is from Madrid, Spain, who helped him start the company in 2013.  Drew is proud to note that over 50% of early stage investment was from military veterans and many of them Service Academy graduates.  Drew graduated from West Point in 1989 with Superintendent's Honors and from Yale University with an MBA in 1994.