Mr. Andrew Ackerman served as Managing Director - UrbanTech at DreamIt Ventures. Andrew is recovering consultant turned serial entrepreneur, startup mentor and angel investor. He is the Managing Director at Dreamit, currently in charge of the UrbanTech accelerator program. Andrew has also written for Fortune, Forbes, Propmodo, CREtech, Builders Online, Architech Magazine, Multifamily Executive, AlleyWatch, Edsurge, The 74 Million, et. al. Andrew began his career at Booz & Co consulting on strategy and operations for Fortune 100 clients. He then joined Bunk1.com as COO, building it from scratch to the leading provider of web services to the summer camp industry until he was bought out in 2008. Andrew then incubated new ventures and managed over $50M of alternative (hedge, private equity, VC, angel) investments for a family office. Andrew was also the founding CEO of Layercake.com and has a keen appreciation for how hard it is to build a successful startup, even under the best of circumstances. Andrew received his MBA from Chicago Booth and a BA from Johns Hopkins University. He speaks Hebrew fluently as well as some Spanish, French & Japanese and is working on JavaScript.