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Ben J. Dyer
bdyer@innovationspublishing.com
Ben J. Dyer is the president of
Innovations Publishing, LLC, which produces the video blog TechDrawl
promoting technology business across the South from DC to Texas. He
is president of Gospel Properties, LLC, which owns and is marketing
more than 20,000 hours of vintage gospel music video. He consults
with early-stage companies with respect to business planning and
capital acquisition and is a licensed broker (Series 7, 63, & 24)
affiliated with the investment banking firm Croft & Bender.
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 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 ending in 2006 and
returned to that board in 2008. 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.
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