Bob Venero

President and CEO
Future Tech Enterprise, Inc.

Bob Venero has taken a start-up company from the basement of his Long Island home in 1996 to an industry-leading end-to-end IT solutions provider with revenue of $100 million in 2009 and over 100 employees.

Under Bob's leadership and innovation, Future Tech Enterprise Inc. has evolved from a traditional hardware provider to a total solutions provider – consistently proving that FTEI is a dynamic organization with limitless capabilities. Future Tech continues to leverage its relationships with the world’s leading companies to deliver solutions and services in systems, networks, infrastructure, security, storage management, portfolio management and more through a variety of industry leading solutions.

Future Tech’s approach is that each client is a partner, and we can only be successful if they are. By concentrating on pain points as well as the customer’s bottom line, FTEI can recommend and implement custom solutions that are scalable, feasible, and help lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). It all adds up to measurable ROI that impacts productivity, profit and growth.

Future Tech is one of only three corporations to achieve “Top 10 Fastest Growing Private Companies on Long Island” five consecutive years in a row. Additionally, Future Tech was named “#1 Rising Star” by CRN Magazine, and is included in VAR Magazine’s “VAR 500.” In 2005 Future Tech won “VAR of the Year” and was featured on the front cover of VARBusiness Magazine. Most recently, Future Tech was honored with HP’s #1 Regional Growth Partner Award, and its third LISTnet Software Award.

Bob is the founder of The Bob Venero Children’s Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare, health and happiness of children through innovative technologies … all designed to help celebrate the indomitable human spirit.

Bob’s business acumen is only surpassed by his humanitarian instincts. The following organizations have benefited from his heartfelt generosity: The NY Philharmonic, The National Center for Disabilities, The American Cancer Society, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, Hofstra University, The Cradle of Aviation, The Red Cross, Good Samaritan Hospital, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, The Smile Train, etc.

Outside of his extensive business and community commitments, Bob serves on several business advisory boards including: The Energeia Partnership (The Academy of Regional Stewardship at Molloy College); Long Island’s Angel Network, Inc.; CEWIT (Center of Excellence for Wireless and Information Technology), Stony Brook Deans Council / College of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Good Samaritan Hospital; Long Island Software and Technology Network (LISTnet); Suffolk County Wireless Commission; VAR500 Advisory Board; Economic Development Team for Suffolk County; Workforce Investment Board for Suffolk County; Long Island Business Leader for KeySpan; and the Advanced Research and Technology Center (AERTC) at Stony Brook University.

Bob Venero has built a strong business that positively impacts the lives of his family and his employees, as well as his business partners and customers – all relationships are predicated on the idea that life is about taking risks. Bob says, “It’s about the willingness to realize one’s potential -- seizing the opportunities that lie before you and rising to the occasion.”