Stefan Pagacik
E-Ventures360
Conscious Entrepreneurial Leader 

Stefan Pagacik provides guidance and innovative thinking to organizations looking to solve large-scale problems that create new revenue opportunities through partnerships, products or services. Working with senior executives, Stefan helps generate and implement ‘outside-the-box’ strategic thinking and converts new ideas into actionable plans. He also links executives, partners and stakeholders with high-level influencers and experts, and if appropriate, with potential investors. He is currently developing a new joint partnership model in sustainable technologies and infrastructure. Stefan has worked with start-up and early stage businesses (the Company of Science and Art later acquired by Adobe) as well as established companies (Apple Computers). He guided the founders of Salesnet.com on fundraising and business strategy development (Salesnet.com has now raised more than $30M in venture capital), and is now working on building an economic catalyst called E-Ventures360°, which will provide an entrepreneurial operating platform to transform complex problems in sustainability, health care and finance into real economic growth. More recently, Stefan co-authored a feasibility study for the creation of a technology incubator in Southeastern Massachusetts. The Regional Technology Development Center of Cape Cod began operations in January 2007. Stefan helped procure project funding, designed key study parameters, wrote the business plan and built relationships with influencers and key individuals in government, academia, venture capital and the business community. He also identified and approached early-stage companies to reside in the Center. Prior to establishing E-Ventures360, Stefan worked for Adams Media Corporation, an educational and small business software company, where he started and built its software division. He also opened the Boston office for Chicago IT consulting firm Eclipse Information Systems (later acquired by Century Services of Washington, D.C.) and served in account management and information systems roles with PixelDance Communications and Lavastorm. Stefan received his B.A. in English from Harvard University and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Suffolk University.

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