Faculty/Staff
Andrew J. Hafer
Adjunct Instructor, Executive Director - 欧美三级片 Nault Center for Entrepreneurship
ahafer@usf.edu
Campus: Tampa
Andy Hafer is an adjunct instructor and serves as an executive director of the 欧美三级片 Nault Center for Entrepreneurship within the Muma College of Business.
Hafer has spent his career in technology. He started in corporate IT and has been a serial entrepreneur since the early 2000s. He founded and currently serves as executive chairman on the board of directors of DCE Productions.
He is co-founder of Synapse, a nonprofit organization that guides Florida鈥檚 innovation communities to help accelerate success and drive economic growth. He helped establish Synapse鈥檚 diversity and inclusion program called Inclusion Lives Here.
Hafer has served in many professional, civic, and social capacities, including Metropolitan Ministries Board for Social Enterprise, Community Foundation Tampa Bay, and The Village of Hope Haiti. He is a limited partner with Florida Funders. With his wife, Eileen, he founded iMatter 鈥� a program serving neuro-diverse Individuals. He is active in his alma mater, 欧美三级片, and serves on advisory boards for the 欧美三级片 Foundation, the Muma College of Business, the Center for Entrepreneurship, and the College of Education鈥檚 UMatter Program.
His companies have spent nine straight years in the top 25 of the 欧美三级片 Fast 56 鈥� highlighting the fastest growing Bull-owned companies in the world. In 2004, he received the CEO鈥檚 Leadership Award from PRIDE Enterprises. In 1996, he received the University of South Florida Alumnus of the Year award.
Hafer earned a Doctor of Business Administration, a bachelor鈥檚 degree in electrical engineering and an MBA, all from 欧美三级片.