Geoff Bartakovics

{{short description|American businessman and entrepreneur|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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Geoff Bartakovics (born 1977) is an American businessman, entrepreneur and the author of a cookbook, Tasting Table: Cooking with Friends published by Flatiron books in 2019.{{cite web |title=4 steps to throwing a successful dinner party, according to the CEO of a foodie site with 8 million readers {{!}} Business Insider India |url=https://www.businessinsider.in/4-steps-to-throwing-a-successful-dinner-party-according-to-the-ceo-of-a-foodie-site-with-8-million-readers/articleshow/57636374.cms |website=Business Insider |language=en}} He was the cofounder and CEO of Tasting Table,{{cite web|title=Geoff Bartakovics & Nick Fauchald: E-Entrepreneurs|url=http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/40-big-food-thinkers-under-40-geoff-bartakovics-nick-fauchald|publisher=Food & Wine|accessdate=25 July 2015}} a digital media brand targeting food influencers{{cite web|last1=Silver|first1=Shani|title=Geoff Bartakovics Tasting Table CEO Home|url=http://domino.com/geoff-bartakovics-tasting-table-ceo-home|website=Domino|accessdate=27 March 2017}} and is the CEO of Housing.Cloud, which he co-founded with Sasha Bratyshkin. Bartakovics was also a board member or advisor to numerous startups.

Career

Before launching Tasting Table in 2008, Bartakovics was a business manager in asset-backed finance at UBS Investment Bank.{{cite web|title=HOW PASSION GUIDED A BIG CAREER SHIFT FOR A BANKER TURNED TASTING TABLE CEO|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3008661/how-passion-guided-big-career-shift-banker-turned-tasting-table-ceo|publisher=Fastcompany.com|accessdate=18 March 2015}} He studied English literature at the University of Chicago,{{cite web|last1=Tucker|first1=Nikki|title=Co-Founder & CEO of the Tasting Table Shares His Haute Guide to NYC|url=http://hauteliving.com/2016/04/co-founder-ceo-of-the-tasting-table-shares-his-haute-guide-to-nyc/606874/|website=Haute Living|accessdate=27 March 2017|date=11 April 2016}} and studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar.{{cite web|title=Graduate students receive the most Fulbrights|url=http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/990610/fulbright.shtml|publisher=The University of Chicago|accessdate=25 July 2015}}{{cite web|title=Startup Stories: Geoff Bartakovics of Tasting Table|url=http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/interviews/a/Geoff-Bartakovics-Co-founder-And-Ceo-Of-Tasting-Table.htm|publisher=About.com|access-date=2015-03-18|archive-date=2015-04-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093454/http://entrepreneurs.about.com/od/interviews/a/Geoff-Bartakovics-Co-founder-And-Ceo-Of-Tasting-Table.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Tasting Table CEO Geoff Bartakovics: A Week In The Life|date=19 October 2011 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/tasting-table-food-informants_n_1009794.html|publisher=Huffingtonpost.com}}

In 2019, he sold Tasting Table to Static Media and joined real estate development firm Artifact as COO after selling Tasting Table.{{cite web |last1=Jacobson |first1=Aileen |title=Sugar Hill, Manhattan: The Sweet Life of Old New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/realestate/sugar-hill-manhattan-the-sweet-life-of-old-new-york.html |website=The New York Times |date=29 January 2020}} Bartakovics co-founded Housing.Cloud with Sasha Bratyshkin, backed by Bienville Capital.{{cite web |title=The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 6/13/2023 – AlleyWatch |url=https://alleywatch.com/2023/06/the-alleywatch-startup-daily-funding-report-6-13-2023/ |website=AlleyWatch}}

Recognitions

In 2012, he was named one of Out magazine's OUT 100.{{cite web|title=Out100: Scott Hocker, Bob Tuschman, Geoff Bartakovics, Rita Sodi, Jody Williams, Brady Konya|url=http://www.out.com/out-exclusives/out100-2012/2012/11/15/hocker-tuschman-bartakovics-jody-williams-rita-sodi-brady-konya|publisher=Out.com|accessdate=25 July 2015}}
Bartakovics was named an "Insurgent of 2010" by The New York Observer, recognizing him as one of the young New Yorkers impacting media, politics, business, culture, and style.{{cite web |title=The Insurgents of 2010 |url=https://observer.com/2009/12/the-insurgents-of-2010/#slide34 |website=Observer |date=22 December 2009}}
In 2009, he was named one of "40 Food Thinkers under 40" by Food & Wine magazine.{{cite web |title=40 Food Thinkers 40 and Under: Jennifer Rubell |url=https://www.foodandwine.com/news/40-big-food-thinkers-under-40-jennifer-rubell |website=Food & Wine |language=en}}

Books

{{cite book |last1=Bartakovics |first1=Geoff |title=Tasting table cooking with friends: recipes for modern entertaining |date=2019 |publisher=Flatiron Books |location=New York |isbn=9781250139535 |edition=First}}

References

Category:American food industry business executives

Category:1977 births

Category:Living people

Category:American technology executives

Category:University of Chicago alumni

Category:21st-century American businesspeople

Category:University of Hamburg alumni