Ben J. Dyer is the president of Innovations Publishing, LLC, which promotes, connects and educates emerging, privately owned ventures in the southeastern United States. The company publishes print and online resources for investors, entrepreneurs and service providers, provides educational and developmental programs for entrepreneurs in conjunction with the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, and consults with early-stage companies with respect to business planning and capital acquisition.

In addition to his role as president of Innovations Publishing, Dyer is the Managing General Partner of the Atlanta Life Venture Fund, a $25M co-investment fund targeted toward minority vendors to Fortune 1000 companies. Dyer heads the corporate finance practice at Jackson Securities which serves early-stage to mid-market companies. Jackson Securities, founded by the late Maynard H. Jackson, former Mayor of Atlanta, is now an affiliate of the Atlanta Life Financial Group.

Dyer is also a General Partner of Cordova Intellimedia Ventures, a $41 million 2000-vintage seed capital fund for software, datacom, and new media. This Fund has five remaining investments to harvest. He is Chairman of Intellimedia Commerce, Inc., which was formed in January 1996 and is privately held. Intellimedia has engaged in the businesses of software development and of incubating emerging technology companies and is also a General Partner in Cordova Intellimedia Ventures. He was previously Chairman and CEO of Comsell, Inc., a pioneering multimedia development firm, from its founding in 1983 until 1988, when it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Dyer was earlier a founder of Peachtree Software, Inc. and served as its president from inception in 1977 through September 1983. The company was sold to Management Science America in June 1981. After it was later sold to a venture group, Dyer returned as a director until its April 1994 acquisition by ADP. Dyer has served as president, chairman, and a director of the de novo Enterprise National Bank, and was also a founding director of Bank of Atlanta.

He is currently on the boards of privately-held FundRaisingInfo.com, Deposit Solutions, Inc., and Denarii Payments, Inc. He served four years on the board of public company TeamStaff (TSTF), concluding in January 2007. Dyer has concentrated his community activities on higher education. He has been president of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, a director of the Georgia Tech Foundation, and chairman of the Alumni Advisory Board for Tech's School of Industrial & Systems Engineering. He served a 30-month term as Chairman of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation. He is currently on the External Advisory Council of the Georgia Tech Research Institute. In March 2006 he received the Joseph Mayo Petit Alumni Distinguished Service Award, Georgia Tech's highest honor for its alumni. On October 19, 1998 Dyer was inducted as the 14th member of Georgia's Technology Hall of Fame. Dyer holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree with highest honor from Georgia Tech, and an M.B.A. in finance from Georgia State University, also with highest honor.