Felix Ortiz

Published: Oct. 24, 2014, 9:28 p.m.

Felix Ortiz, CEO, Virdis Learning Felix Ortiz is passionate about entrepreneurship, having started several companies, including Visionary Trade & Export, which he founded at age 20. As CEO of Virdis Learning, Ortiz focuses an education technology that combines workforce education and human capital solutions for the middle-skill workforce. In 2008, Ortiz served on the National Finance Committee Council for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, and was a member of the advisory group for International Trade & Economics on the Obama-Biden Transition Team. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Ortiz served as a national co-chair of Gen44. Ortiz served his country in the U.S. Army 18th Airborne Corps and JAG Corps, and then attended St. John’s University.