Mount Vernon Students Connect With Atlanta Entrepreneur

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Taking time away from his fast-paced schedule as one of Atlanta’s most respected and connected venture capitalists, Charlie Paparelli recently spent the morning with Mount Vernon’s future entrepreneurs.

As a part of the School’s Upper School Business & Entrepreneurship Club speaker series, Paparelli, the co-founder of 12 businesses, founder of High Tech Ministries and a founding member of the Technology Association of Georgia, shared his life journey with students.

As a devout Christian, Paparelli gives credit to Christ for all of of his successes.

“God uses me every day to work with entrepreneurs to see how we might unlock their talents to reach their goals,” he said.

Afterwards, Paparelli remarked on the insightful questions that many of the Mount Vernon students asked like: What is the process you use to work with an entrepreneur? What types of companies do you fund? Was there a moment in your life when you discovered the impact of Jesus’ role in your life?

Paparelli is president and founder of Paparelli Ventures, an investment company focused on entrepreneurs in the Atlanta technology market. Paparelli Ventures has funded over 16 Atlanta startups in the last 15 years. Additionally he is a board member and investor of SEMS Technologies and managing partner of Torad Engineering.

Photo: from left to right, Alyse-Noel Hicks, Garrett Hahn, Charlie Paparelli and Taylor LeRoy. Credit: Mount Vernon Presbyterian School