
Chuck Papageorgiou
Chief Executive Officer
Chuck Papageorgiou is a market-proven Executive Leader, Business Operator, Product and Solution Designer, and Enterprise Technologist with over two decades of global business experience in leading organizational turnarounds, business transformation, M&A, and launching startups. His extensive business and investor network values Chuck for his experience, knowledge, and results-driven approach, as well as his ‘get it done’ mentality and passion for building strong teams and client relationships, while helping others succeed.
As an entrepreneur, Chuck has founded and launched multiple companies over the last twenty years, raising over $15M in startup capital. As a corporate executive and consultant, he has managed organizations ranging from five-person startups and spin-off divisions to 15,000+ employee global operations. As a Sr. Advisor, he has led or advised on global M&A and restructuring transactions worth over 9 billion dollars in over 40 countries.
Chuck was a co-founder and the CEO of WorldWatch Plus--an AI-driven risk management company, sold to Dun and Bradstreet. He is a co-founder and current Managing Partner of Ideasphere Partners, LLC--an investment and advisory firm that delivers expertise and hands-on leadership and execution support in strategy, solution, and product development, operations streamlining, technology architecture and deployment, turnarounds, outsourcing, corporate alliances, and mergers and acquisitions. His clients have included Private Equity and Venture Capital firms and Corporations across the globe.
A lifelong servant of his community, Chuck is actively involved with the Florida entrepreneurship ecosystem and served as a Board Member at the Tampa Bay Wave and the Lowth Center of Entrepreneurship at the University of Tampa, where he also served as an Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR). He is also an advisor and EIR for the Moffitt Cancer Research Center and supports several local initiatives that focus on the development of entrepreneurs and startup companies.