Ben J. Dyer is the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is an instructor for the Longhorn Startup Lab, a UT undergraduate entrepreneurship course in which students create actual ventures. He is Lead Director of the Advisory Board of Enola Labs, a software architecture, design, and engineering firm. He is the author of TechDrawl, a blog promoting technology entrepreneurship and innovation across the South. And, he is an active board member of BeHome247, Inc., a provider of enterprise property control software in the smart home arena. He provides pro-bono advice and coaching to numerous early-stage technology ventures in the Austin community and chairs the qualifying committee for the annual SXSW Accelerator program. Dyer is best known as a founder of Peachtree Software and served as its president from inception through its sale to Management Science America in 1981. He subsequently founded Comsell, an early interactive media company that he sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, followed by Intellimedia, which created CD-ROMs for sports education and morphed into web development. He is a general partner in a 2000-vintage $41M seed stage venture fund in Atlanta that is in the final stages of harvest. Dyer has concentrated his community activities on higher education. He has been president of the Georgia Tech Alumni Association and Chairman of the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, where he remains on the board. In 2006 he received the Joseph Mayo Petit Alumni Distinguished Service Award, Georgia Tech's highest honor for its alumni. In 1998 Dyer was inducted as the 14th member of Georgia's Technology Hall of Fame. Dyer holds a BIE degree from Georgia Tech and an MBA in Finance from Georgia State University. Both of his children graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.