Curtis Park Email and Phone Number

In 1980 Curtis began his business career as a Consultant with Deloitte. In 1982 he and two partners founded, managed, and invested in numerous ventures including oil and gas exploration, commercial real estate development, manufacturing, defense contracting, and others. By 1987 that group of enterprises was valued at about $100 million.In 1988, he established a consultancy serving ventures in California with external capital acquisition and growth strategy.In 2006 he retired and redirected his efforts to volunteer advising of ventures, helping them network with investors, key management talent, strategic partnering relationships, and service providers. He served ventures and investors throughout Europe and the Americas and in the process helped give birth to dozens of early-stage ventures and five unicorns, or companies with at least $1 billion in market capitalization. He served as a member of the European Commission Executive Agency for Small and Medium Size Enterprises.He is active with several university graduate programs including Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Caltech, and Stanford University. He serves as a faculty resource and advisor to the graduate students at those schools.Other activities include service as an advisor to Women’s Economic Ventures, a Certified Community Development Financial Institution.He is a published author, having written histories for the U.S. Army, screen treatments for major studios, novels, prose poetry, and mosaic novels.