General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
Jeff is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and entrepreneurial experience are in consumer, Internet commerce, marketing services, software and wireless start-ups. Jeff represents the firm on the boards of BzzAgent, ClickSquared, DataXu, digitalArbor, i4cp, Mall Networks, SimpleTuition, and Transpera and was previously a director at Brontes Technologies (acquired by 3M), go2Media, and PanGo Networks (merged with InnerWireless).
Jeff serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He is on the board of MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange and is an Executive Committee Member of FirstGrowth Venture Network, supporting entrepreneurs in the New York area.
Jeff co-founded Upromise (acquired by Sallie Mae), a loyalty marketing and financial services firm with 11 million members that currently manages $20 billion in college savings assets, where he served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Board Director. Prior to Upromise, Jeff was an executive at Open Market, an Internet commerce software leader that went public in 1996. Jeff was with The Boston Consulting Group, and served on the executive team of Athena Design.
Jeff holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar.
Jeff is co-chair of the Progressive Business Leaders Network, vice chairman of the board of educational non-profit, Facing History and Ourselves, and was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the Readiness Finance Commission (education reform).
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