Jeff is a deeply experienced technologist, scale and growth operator, board member, and growth investor with nearly 30 years of work experience.

Beginning his career as a Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with multiple degrees from Princeton and Stanford, Jeff’s areas of domain include enterprise software as well as many of the emergent sectors relevant to today’s “hard tech” market such as industrial tech, manufacturing tech, robotics, IoT, AI/ML, transportation and autonomous systems/vehicles, EV’s and powertrain systems, energy storge and renewables, space tech, material science, and frontier tech. He additionally has a degree in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he focused on US industrial technology policy. 

Jeff has been a senior executive at Fortune 500 companies SAP, Adobe, Symantec, and Yahoo!, where he led global scale organizations with thousands of employees and partners across dozens of worldwide locations. In this capacity, he has led field sales, service, support, product management, product development, business intelligence, outsourcing/offshoring/reshoring, corporate strategy, and M&A.  He has been involved in part or all of nearly 100 post-merger integrations over the years. His early foundation in business was as a McKinsey & Company associate principal, where he focused on operational areas across enterprise hardware, software, and service companies.