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Tate Garrett
Since joining Advantage Capital Partners in
1999, Tate Garrett has invested $40 million in 14 Florida private companies and
has held seven Board seats. His most promising investments include AuthenTec,
Inc. and Pasteuria Bioscience, LLC.
Prior to joining Advantage, Tate purchased the
assets of a failed manufacturing firm, resurrected the company over a three-year
period, and then sold the successful business. Prior to that, Tate was a
strategy and operations consultant for major financial and telecommunications
firms.
Tate holds a Computer Science degree from Yale
University and an MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Management from
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Tate serves on the Advisory Boards for the
StarTec business accelerator, and is a member of the Association for Corporate
Growth and the Tampa Bay Technology Forum. Tate is also an avid choral singer,
and the immediate past Board Chairman of the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay.
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