Ted VICKEY

FitWell LLC

www.fitwellinc.com

Biography

Ted Vickey is an internationally-acclaimed entrepreneur, guru on health and fitness, speaker, author, consultant and avid golfer. He started his first company at age 24 with his first client being the White House as their Executive Director of the White House Athletic Center under the Bush, Clinton and Bush administrations. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Council on Exercise, the largest non-profit exercise certification organization in the United States.  He recently completed a Master’s of Science in International Entrepreneurship Management from the University of Limerick in Ireland.  His thesis work focused on entrepreneurship, effective uses of technology and social networking.

Research Information

The Research Purpose of this project is to explore the specific aspects of social capital in entrepreneurial firms and how the firms successfully (and unsuccessfully) use their social capital.  The research included open and honest dialogue with the firms to better understand how they use technology and social capital, why they use social capital, if they are aware of their use of social capital and how they measure the value of their own social capital.