CorpDev.Ninja with Andreas Penna

Patrick Bosworth, a verified Business Ninja, is the CEO of Royalton Investment; the firm focuses on start-up businesses within Royalton related to new business models in yachting, and developing hospitality and wellness projects.

Patrick is also an advisor to Duetto Research, which is a company he founded in 2012. He served as CEO, President & Chairman throughout his tenure at Duetto until deciding to join Royalton. He led the company to significant milestones, including growth to serve more than 3,500 hotel and casino properties in over 60 countries. He raised over US$140M while serving as CEO from some of the top investors in the world, and he promoted his successor during a time of record growth and company performance.

Patrick serves as an advisor to technology companies in the transportation, real estate, and human resources sectors. He also served on the board of Eoliasur, which develops wind energy in Argentina, and the charity, Win-Win Entertainment. Previously, Patrick was an executive at Wynn Resorts in the US and China, and he was an appointee in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush.

He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Fritz Lanman is the CEO of ClassPass; the largest pre-IPO, health & fitness tech startup. He’s also a prolific Angel investor with investments in: Square, Pinterest, Wish, Flexport, Formlabs, etc… 100+ investments over the past decade! Fritz started his career @ Microsoft after getting his Bachelor’s degree in history from Yale. He rose through the ranks to become one of the youngest Directors in Microsoft history! He was the “go to guy” for many things Corporate Strategy and M&A and led the $240M Facebook ($FB) investment in 2007 when $FB was only worth $15B; that’s ~45X as of today! After Microsoft, Fritz founded and was CEO of Livestar, a mobile-based recommendation engine on food and culture that sold to Pinterest in 2013. I consider Fritz to be a preeminent Business Ninja in all things from Startups to investing. We explore his kernels of knowledge and wisdom. He would give Master Splinter a run for his cheese- COWABUNGA!

Eric Engineer is really an Engineer (Computer Science) by background. He’s worked in Product Management at Microsoft, then went to Harvard Business School graduating to pursue a VC role at Sevin Rosen Funds. He joined one of his portfolio companies, Invodo, where he went from VP of Product & Partnership to CEO, ultimately selling the company to Industrial Color in 2018. He’s now back in VC as a Partner at S3 Ventures, the largest VC focused on Texas, HQ’d in Austin. Given his career, he’s a masterful Business Ninja with truths from the trenches that we explore!