Josh Linkner is the CEO and managing partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a venture capital firm helping to rebuild Detroit through entrepreneurial support.
Linkner is also the founder and former CEO of ePrize, the largest interactive promotion agency in the world, serving 74 of the top 100 brands. Additionally, he founded, built, and successfully sold three other technology companies for a combined value of over $250 million.
A regular contributor to Inc., Forbes, and the Detroit Free Press, Linkner is also a New York Times bestselling author of “Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity.” His latest book, “The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation” – to be released in May 2014 – is widely expected to set the new standard on the topic of reinvention.