Efrem Dryer

About Me

Efrem Dryer is an accomplished parallel entrepreneur, author, investor and business developer with a long record of building and capitalizing on brand, intellectual, talent and hard assets to drive revenue growth in domestic and emerging markets. He is founder and Director of ENVCA, a firm where he focuses on the general practice of business development. The company specializes in creating, growing and maintaining various entrepreneurial ventures in North and South America. Mr. Dryer has spent over 7 years living in and doing business in Brazil where he has established strong governmental, non-governmental, business, and personal relationships. Furthermore, he has become extremely proficient in written and spoken Portuguese while developing an uncanny understanding of Brazilian social and business culture. Since launching ENVCA in late 2000, Efrem has successfully navigated the “proof of concept” phase of various types of ventures and managed over $5M in capital before the age of 30. The company’s current portfolio includes various projects, clients, and companies in development. Concurrent with establishing companies and brands, Efrem has been managing and partnering with recording artists and music producers all of his life. He developed social and cultural programs to create inter-cultural interaction and the creation of multi-market/multi- language music recordings. To date music has been recorded with multi-platinum and extremely influential artists from the US, UK and Brazil. He is expanding that endeavor to include artist from the African continent. This experience has helped him to develop an uncanny ability to bring about direct cultural influence within developing markets which can prove valuable to companies and investors considering emerging markets as future places to do business. Though Mr. Dryer has no fraternal ties he is a member of the world trade organization where he has hosted seminars with other prominent business leaders. As an individual, as well as through one or more of his own companies he has served clients such as Author Kayona Brown, Gaelle Addison, Pras Michel of the Fugees, filmmaker Jonathan Zilli of MTV Films Europe, rapper/actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, music artist SWAY Dasafo, technology company Motorola, comedian Katt Williams, Sudanese icon and child soldier Emmanuel Jal, music artist Howard “Chingy” Bailey, production powerhouse Basement Beats, urban Brazilian blog Rapevolusom, Genesis Landscaping Company, American Fitness Company, Brazilian Carnival samba queen Elizangela Aranha and many more over the last 10 years. Mr. Dryer’s experience in launching companies, raising capital, expanding consumer bases and increasing revenue streams has been a valuable asset across different market types. Highlights of Mr. Dryer’s work include several UK based shows and tours for Ludacris, the successful product placement of the Motorola Accompli 009 device with Jay Z of Rocafella Records in 2001, and the current expansion of entertainment and urban consumer brands worldwide. While the US was experiencing economic downturn, overall business and access to consumer credit in emerging markets such as Brazil has been on a steady rise. He recognized this trend and became in involved in the growth and development of ventures as a result. Prior to forming ENVCA, Mr. Dryer enjoyed a great deal of success with AmpVille Car Audio Service Centers. Starting at the age of 19 as President of his business he turned a $500 personal loan into $500,000 in gross revenue in 3 years. An entrepreneur at heart, he re-invested his profits and began to do business overseas in the Bahamas where he imported Christmas Trees during the holiday season with his lifelong mentor Alan Albury. At the age of 23 he left the automotive electronics business and began to work within the venture capital environment where he spearheaded raising $1.2M for what later became a faith based content and media company. The years he spent working within the venture capital area brought him IR, IPO, reverse merger and funding experience that would later become very valuable. Earlier in his career, Efrem was a substitute teacher while studying Electronics Engineering at Devry Institute in Atlanta. Efrem left college before graduating with his degree, formed his first company and hired many of the classmates who later graduated with the degree he never got. With former classmates now working for his business, CEE Inc. grew to 12 employees, 4 company-owned stores, a warehouse facility, a corporate office and 14 affiliate stores nationwide. Mr. Dryer was recognized in the book Breaking the Code of Silence as a prominent business leader who acquired most of his business acumen through trial and error, failure and self-development. In more recent times while living in southern Brazil he finished his first book Précis of Acumen, Volume One. He decided to self publish and release this book as an online PDF in 2009. Mr. Dryer thereafter continued to work on two additional books which have yet to be released. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Efrem was raised between a small area of the city called Thunderbolt and the beautiful city of Nassau, Bahamas. He currently resides in Atlanta Georgia and Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil, but travels in other parts of the world often. A true global business executive, Mr. Dryer transitions seamlessly across diverse business environments and cultures. He is multilingual in English & Portuguese and developing skills in Spanish & German.

Education

Devry Institute of Technology
Electronics Engineering
/1992 - /

Work

ENVCA
Founder & Director,
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Professional Organizations

WTC

Skills

Business Development

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