TIMOTHY J. CARTWRIGHT

PARTNER, FIFTH AVENUE FAMILY OFFICE, NAPLES

In 2006, Cartwright founded the Fifth Avenue Family Office, serving high-net-worth families with multigenerational wealth. It provides guidance on exit strategies, oversight of real estate and investment assets, and coordination of family governance, estate and legacy planning. Cartwright also is a co-founding director of the Florida Venture Education Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to enhancing Florida’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, and chairs the board at the Taste of Immokalee, a Florida benefit corporation that provides students with hands-on business experience.

EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin-Madison (BS),
Northwestern University (MBA)

DREAM ALTERNATE CAREER: I would start a nonprofit that would compete with the for-profit company 4Ocean. Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans. There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean. This is a world problem.

SOMETHING SURPRISING: I was an adjunct professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in the School of Entrepreneurship for three years. I started teaching in 2018 and have witnessed the incredible growth in the program from a minor degree to a major degree and now to its own school.

FIRST JOB
“A corn detasseler in DeKalb, Ill.”