Chuck Papageorgiou

Chuck was a co-founder and CEO of WorldWatch Plus—an AI-driven risk management company—that was sold to a global data company. He is also a co-founder and current Managing Partner of Ideasphere Partners, LLC, an advisory firm that offers contract executive services and delivers expertise and hands-on leadership and execution support in the high-tech, light manufacturing, gaming, logistics and financial services segments, as well as digital transformation services through its Ideasphere Labs subsidiary. His clients include private equity and venture capital firms and corporations across the globe. As an entrepreneur he has founded and launched a number of companies over the past 20 years, raising more than $15 million in startup capital, and has advised and mentored dozens of founders and co-founders of early-stage companies. As a corporate executive and consultant, he has led organizations ranging from five-person spin-off divisions to 10,000+ employee global operations. He has directly led, or acted as a senior consultant, on M&A and restructuring transactions worth over $9 billion. Chuck is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tampa’s Lowth Entrepreneurship Center, a board member of the Tampa Bay Wave, an early stage company accelerator, and an entrepreneur-in-residence for the Moffitt Cancer Research Center. He is actively involved in the Tampa Bay tech ecosystem and has served as a mentor in Pathbuilders Achieva® Program.