Jeff McConnell has earned a reputation as a successful CEO and now as a leadership advisor. He acts as “partner” to our Technology and FinTech clients where he assesses and recruits the talent required to enhance valuation. McConnell understands the issues and challenges of leading disruption and the talent that is required to path to value. Simply, he has “lived” it. Mr. McConnell advises a wide variety of emerging enterprises at different points in their development as well as serving significantly larger publicly traded and private equity controlled companies that are at strategic inflection points requiring a step up in leadership.Our clients benefit from McConnell’s judgment, perspective and insights in defining game changing talent requirements and the recruitments thereof, as he has led the founding, funding, operations and successful monetizations of several companies building upon his earlier senior management experience gained in highly reputed public companies with notable brands. Recent emerging company experience includes; • Whisper Communications: an information security company founded in Georgia Tech Venture Lab to secure proximity commerce.• Avalon International: a SAAS check imaging company that led the way in distributed imagining processing• iKobo an internet money transfer company that leveraged a prepaid card as a payout mechanism • CFO of a payments acquisition entity backed by $200 million equity from GenstarEarlier in his career, McConnell held various financial, strategic and operational roles at American Express, First Data, Western Union, Moneygram, PRG Shultz and Integon. He cofounded both Pitch Gauntlet and Startup Gauntlet that helped teach storytelling and customer discovery to over 1,000 startups. He created and ran the Venture Atlanta coaching process and teaches how to make effective presentations in the TiGer program at Georgia Tech’s Scheller School of Business.