Executive Forum with Tim Cartwright, Founding Partner for Fifth Avenue Family Office

The Executive Forum is open to the public, as seating permits, and provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of topics and issues facing business and management.

Timothy J. Cartwright is a founding partner at Fifth Avenue Family Office. Fifth Avenue Family Office serves a select group of high net-worth families with multigenerational wealth. Fifth Avenue provides a broad range of services from investment management to sophisticated estate planning, evaluation of private equity and venture investment opportunities, succession and exit strategies for closely held businesses, and thoughtful multi-generational legacy transfers.
 

Prior, he co-founded By-Products Interactive, an electronic trading, market research and publishing company which he sold in 2021 to Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, a FTSE 250 Public Company. Earlier, he founded Benchmark Solutions, a supply chain consulting company, which was sold in 1999. He began his career working with middle market companies at Arthur Andersen in Chicago, Illinois.
 

Mr. Cartwright recently completed a 12-year term as a member of the Florida Gulf Coast University’s Foundation Board, finishing as Chair of the Board. During this time, he was a prime mover in starting the Institute for Entrepreneurship which grew into the DK School of Entrepreneurship at FGCU where he served as Adjunct Professor for six semesters. For the eighth consecutive year, he was named by Florida Trend Magazine to their list of Florida’s 500 Most Influential Business Leaders due to his venture capital and private equity activity with the Tamiami Angel Funds and Adrenaline Venture Fund. He resides in Naples and has three grown children. He is a softball coach, a soccer coach, and an active member of First Baptist Church of Naples.