Queen City Angels' Founder Tony Shipley Elected as Chair of the Angel Capital Association's Board of Directors
The Angel Capital Association (ACA) is the world's leading professional association for angel investors. ACA provides public policy advocacy, professional development, resources, and networking on behalf of its more than 14,000 member angel investors across North America.
CINCINNATI, August 1, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tony Shipley, founder and Chairman of Queen City Angels, has been elected as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world's leading professional association for angel investors. ACA provides public policy advocacy, professional development, resources, and networking on behalf of its more than 14,000 member angel investors across North America.
Shipley has already been instrumental in bringing the ACA's Best of the Midwest Regional Meeting to Cincinnati this fall. The event Oct. 16-17 is expected to bring more than 100 angel capital investors from around the region to the University of Cincinnati's 1819 Innovation Hub. Angel investors put money into startups at their very early stages.
The conference is aimed at helping angel investors learn, network and collaborate. But it's also a way to show off Cincinnati's startup community. Inc. magazine listed Cincinnati as a top city for entrepreneurship in February. And last year Forbes ranked Cincinnati sixth among its top 10 Rising Cities for Startups.
Shipley has been involved as a founder or investor in more than 50 startup or early-stage companies. He started Queen City Angels in 2000 as one of the Midwest's first angel capital groups. He is an inaugural member of the Angel Capital Association. His career began as an engineer for Monsanto Company in Pensacola, Florida. He later joined an early stage company in Cincinnati, OH, Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, as an Industry Marketing Manager. Shipley co-founded Anatrol Corporation in 1975, then founded Entek Scientific, a software company providing mechanical engineering application packages, in 1981. Entek Scientific grew in to an internationally recognized supplier of plant machinery monitoring systems and was included on the Inc. 500 list at number 414.
Shipley began angel investing in 2000. He is the founder and Chairman of Queen City Angels, based in Cincinnati, OH. Shipley has a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Tennessee and an MBA from the University of Cincinnati. He serves on many non-profit boards and has helped launch various non-profit business development organizations.
ACA's Chair of the Education and Smart Practices Committee, member of Boise Angel Alliance and co-founder of Loon Creek Capital Group, Kevin Learned, will be stepping in to the role of Vice Chair on July 1, 2019. Two new board members will also begin their terms, Pat LaPointe, from Bozeman, MT and the Managing Director of the Frontier Angels and the Director of Early Stage Montana, and John Harbison, a Palos Verdes based investor and Chairman Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels.
About Queen City Angels
Queen City Angels is a group of more than 90 experienced, accredited investors in the Cincinnati and surrounding region. QCA members, which include former corporate executives and entrepreneurs, evaluate opportunities and provide on-going mentoring to young businesses with exceptional growth potential. QCA members typically donate the equivalent of $5,000,000 per year in mentoring, coaching, and guiding regional entrepreneurs to improve their success and the success of angel investors. Since 2000, QCA members have directly invested $70 million in more than 90 portfolio companies. The total capital invested in these companies, including QCA members' capital, syndication partners' capital, follow-on venture capital funds and venture debt is in excess of $580 million. CB Insight ranked QCA second out of 370 national angel organizations. For more information, visit http://www.qca.com or @QueenCityAngels.
About the Angel Capital Association (ACA)
The Angel Capital Association (ACA) is the professional association of angel investors across North America and offers education, best practices, data, public policy advocacy, and significant benefits and resources to its membership of more than 14,000 accredited investors, who invest individually or through its 275 angel groups, accredited platforms, and family offices. Visit http://www.angelcapitalassociation.org or at @ACAAngelCapital
SOURCE Queen City Angels
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