Evan Burfield

Evan Burfield
Born Falls Church, Va.
Nationality United States of America
Occupation Co-founder, 1776

Evan Burfield is an American entrepreneur and business executive. He is the co-founder of Washington, D.C. startup incubator 1776, which he started in 2013 with fellow entrepreneur Donna Harris.[1]

In 2013, Burfield was named an "Emerging Tech Leader" by Politico[2] as well as a "newsmaker to watch" by Washington Business Journal in 2014.[3] He has appeared as a guest contributor in major news sources, such as The Washington Post[4] and GE's Ideas Lab.[5] He has appeared as a business and entrepreneur expert for the Consumer Electronics Association[6] and Digital Capital Week.[7]

Education

Burfield holds bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from St. Catherine’s College at the University of Oxford (2002-2005). While at Oxford, he won the Webb Medley prize for most outstanding thesis for his work on the effects of organizational incentives on knowledge sharing.[8]

Career

Early career

Evan started his entrepreneurial career in 1996 by founding netDecide, a provider of enterprise wealth management solutions to top tier financial service firms such as Bank of America and Ernst & Young. Burfield left the company simultaneous to a $9.2M investment round and layoffs.[9][10]

Evan co-founded consulting firm Synteractive in 2003. Synteractive was listed as #64 on the 2010 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in America and was named the 2010 Microsoft Federal Partner of the Year for their innovative work in building Recovery.gov.[11] Smartronix made a strategic investment in Synteractive in October 2011.[12]

In 2012 he joined the Startup America Initiative to lead Startup DC. He worked with serial entrepreneurs, angel investors, and community leaders on initiatives to increase the startup activity DC region.

1776

Burfield co-founded startup platform 1776 in January, 2013 with Donna Harris.[13] 1776 is an incubation platform for connecting the most promising startups in the world with the resources of Washington, D.C.. 1776 includes a Campus, School, Events, News, and an Accelerator program.

Hallway

Burfield was an advisor and actively raised money for startup Hallway. Hallway received seed funding in September 2012.[14] Hallway went out of business in January 2014.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Evan Burfield" Huffington Post, Retrieved on 20 February 2014
  2. ↑ "Politico Presents Emerging Tech Leaders" Politico, Retrieved on 21 May 2013
  3. ↑ "10 Other Newsmakers to Watch in 2014" Washington Business Journal, Retrieved on 3 January 2014
  4. ↑ "How Uncle Sam Can Avoid Another Healthcare.gov" The Washington Post, Retrieved on 24 October 2013
  5. ↑ "Evan Burfield: Innovation in the Other Half of the Economy" Ideas Lab, Retrieved on 28 May 2013
  6. ↑ "Washington and the Startup Economy" C-SPAN, Retrieved on 9 January 2013
  7. ↑ "Fiscal Cliff is a Big Opportunity for DC Tech" Uber Stories, Retrieved on 23 November 2012
  8. ↑ "Executive Profile Evan Burfield" Business Week, Retrieved on 20 February 2014
  9. ↑ Layoffs, VC, execs depart: NetDecide on the move
  10. ↑ "Ten Private E-Finance Companies Named Investors Choice" Financial Services Outlook, Retrieved on 31 July 2001
  11. ↑ "Evan Burfield" In The Capital, Retrieved on 20 February 2014
  12. ↑ Smartronix Makes Strategic Investment in Synteractive
  13. ↑ "Start-up Hub 1776 Launches with 200K City Grant" The Washington Post, Retrieved on 6 February 2013
  14. ↑ http://www.finsmes.com/2012/09/hallway-raises-seed-funding.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+finsmes%2FcNHu+%28FinSMEs%29
  15. ↑ http://www.crunchbase.com/company/hallway-social-learning-network
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