Barry Moltz

Barry Moltz has been starting businesses for the last 15 years with a great degree of success and failure. He was inducted into the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2004. Moltz was chosen by I-Street Magazine as one of the Top 100 People of Chicago's Hi-Tech community in 2001 and 2002, Chicago Software Association's Angel of the Year in 2001 and received Northweste University 's Contribution to Entrepreneurship Education Award (CEE). He co-founded Prairie Angels in 2000. Moltz is also on the advisory board of the Angel Capital Association , the National Alliance of Angel Groups sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation . He was appointed by the Illinois Governor in 2005 to serve on the board of the Institute for Entrepreneurship Education (IIEE), and teaches entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Moltz speaks at over 100 business events a year.