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Joseph R. Bell is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the CEO of Bell Consulting, LLC, a 13-member business-advisement firm. Joe has an MBA in Finance from Michigan State University and a Law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Joe began his career as a securities attorney syndicating real estate projects, and oversaw more than $1 billion of IPOs representing 150 offerings annually. He served as director of two small business centers and went on to the Governor’s Office to direct Colorado’s statewide small business program. He then became the executive director of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship Development at the University of Colorado, where he managed the Rutt Bridges Venture Capital Fund, as well as the school’s new-business incubator.

While an assistant professor and director of the Entrepreneurship Center at Monfort College of Business (winner of the 2004 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award) at the University of Northern Colorado, Joe was concurrently the COO for CTEK Angels, where he reviewed new deals and worked with entrepreneurs to prepare their presentations to the seventy-five-member angel investor network.

His academic research and publications on angel investing have garnered national awards, including the 2006 U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Small Business Institute’s “Best Workshop/Symposia Small Business Award” and the McGraw-Hill/Irwin Outstanding Paper Award for “Educating Entrepreneurs on Angel and Venture Capital Financing Options,” of which he was co-author.