Paul F. Groepler

Paul F. Groepler brings over thirty years of professional experience in corporate and small company operations and growth, having worked for such Fortune 500 companies as Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Daimler-Benz, DELL Computer and IBM. Mr. Groepler has founded or co-founded seven successful ventures such as Technology Works, CableHealth Care, Aeon Technology and Leapfrog Wireless. He was also fortunate enough to participate in the IPO’s of Sun Microsystems and Dell. In addition to his technology background, Mr. Groepler was a Swiss fund manager for LB Swiss (Zürich) for 8 very successful years. Mr. Groepler has performed Research and Design consulting work for varied organizations ranging from the United Nations to the Max Planck Institute, and has applied for 14 patents (9 patented to-date). He was selected for special study by the National Science Foundation, and has a B.S. in Computing Science with an Electrical Engineering option from the Texas A&M under a full Air Force scholarship. He went back to school in 2019 for a Masters in Data Science and Economics at MIT. In addition to his startup background, Mr. Groepler has three beverage startups experience, first for Iclandia® an Icelandic bottle water play. He was also recruited as President of Viking Glacier Spirits, Inc. and built the execution team, raised all seed capital and brought the company to a Series A funding event. Mr. Groepler was also the co-founder of Santo Spirits, Inc., a tequila company, operating as its President where is raised $13M for operations. Mr. Groepler has also served as an angel investor with his own early-stage portfolio, and a partner consultant to Guggenheim Venture Partners, a large Venture Capital firm based out of Manhattan, NYC and a branch of the Guggenheim family. Most recently, he has become involved in economics, and consults for an Economics firm in Austin, Texas.