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Ingrid Vanderveldt is the Chief Synergy Officer of Advanced Green Technologies LLC., Managing Partner of Game Change Ventures and Host of the Daily web show for entrepreneurs called On the Road with iV. iV is also patent holder, motorcycle racer, skydiver and your basic red-headed entrepreneurial aspiring Supergirl. She is the founder & CEO of the CLUB E Network (a social network for entrepreneurs), creator of the “Entrepreneurial Blueprint” and is a woman on a mission to show that “anything is possible” in this world by bringing to life the stories of people who have overcome adversity to make great things happen. She is the woman behind the brand “Ingrid Vanderveldt Entrepreneurs” focused on entrepreneurship, adventure and rainmaking.

iV created and hosted the primetime series American Made for CNBC. She has been in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times and Inc. Magazine. She has sat with Al Roker on the Today show, been interviewed by Donny Deutsch on the Big Idea and talked entrepreneurship on BNET’s Dog & Pony Show. She has founded 7 start-ups, raised over $7M in venture funding, closed multi-million dollar sales deals and received a technology patent from her first technology company without having a technology background.

She has arm wrestled the founder of Starbucks (Howard Schultz), introduced Malcolm Glad well (author of BLINK, Tipping Point) to a Fortune 500 CEO conference, sat with Hugh Hefner in the Playboy mansion and walked the corporate offices with his daughter, Christie Hefner. She has ridden motorcycles with John Paul DeJoria, (Paul Mitchell) and Karen Davidson (Harley Davidson) and has even raced and beat Alanis Morisette (and beat) on a motorcycle race track. iV has sat courtside and walked the arena with the Maloofs (owners of the NBA Sacramento Kings), helped put on the first in-person & online Microsoft Small Business Summit and has had breakfast with Congress. And she has a Master’s in Architecture and an MBA in Entrepreneurship.

In the 4th grade she rode the “special bus to the special school” and was told she was “special” because she was born with “learning disabilities” and was behind everyone in her class. After the school helped fix the problem (hearing problems) she became one of the top students. In college, her first architecture professor told her that she shouldn’t waste her time trying to be an architect and should focus on being a wife and mother. She used that motivation to become one of top students in her class and was elected National Director of The American Institute of Architecture Students and The American Institute of Architects and created the first ever Women in Architecture Video. When she started her first technology company, an advisor told her she need to dress and talk like a man to compete in the male tech world and a venture capitalist told her she would never get funded in that town if she didn’t. She kept dressing like a girl and acting like a woman and went on to receive million’s of dollars in venture funding and was named by the Austin American Statesman named her “Top Star to Watch”, was named a Austin’s 40 under 40 and gave her the Technology of the Year Award (previous winner was Michael Dell) and made the cover of Women’s Enterprise Magazine and Digital South Magazine. She was told that she needed to have journalism and on-camera experience if she ever wanted to host a TV show and rather than go work for a news station, she pitched and brokered her own deal to a major network and landed the American Made show on CNBC.

She is mentored by Red McCombs, former mentee of George Kozmetsky, and founder of Clear Channel and sits on the board of WorldBlu and Responsible Partying Made Simple. She is a founding member of The Billionaire Girls Club, writing her first book called “the Aha Moment” and is the Annual emcee of MOOT CORP, the world’s largest business plan competition and speaks to entrepreneurial audiences around the country.

iV has a ball-chasing cocker spaniel named Willie G (after Willie G. Davidson), lives on airplanes, reads non stop, ride and races motorcycles, skydives and is addicted to CNN, USA Today, celebrity magazines and PerezHilton.