Jeff retired from VC backed tech startups in February 2022 after a 15 year journey and 3 consecutive exits including two IPO's (Zoom, Voltaire) and one acquisition (Meraki by Cisco). After putting a lot of thought in to how best to spend his time, Jeff is focused on leveraging his business experience to bring value to VC & PE backed companies by taking on Board & Advisory Board roles and taking on select consulting engagements. He is also starting to explore activities focused on ways to disrupt the food and medical industries to elevate the health of the US population starting with a Board role at A Meaningful Purpose at Reed's Farm.At the present time, Jeff has taken on two Board roles, three Advisory Board roles & selective consulting. In these engagements, Jeff collaborates with company founders & CXO's to help them focus, formulate and improve their business plans and coach them to navigate ongoing challenges & opportunities to maximize their growth. His expertise being leveraged include honing investor pitches to aide in capital raising, brand building, shaping Go-To-Market strategies, mitigating unforeseen risks to growth & optimizing organizational structure. Prior to retiring from operator roles in VC startups, Jeff spent 15 years working in a variety of sales leadership roles across three tech startups with all three successfully exiting. Most recently he was the Head of Enterprise for Zoom with responsibility to grow sales with the world’s largest Global Enterprises. He was a member of Eric Yuan's Executive Leadership Team working very closely with marketing, product, customer success, support, sales operations, operations, solution engineering & channel with the objective to ensure all cross functional teams prioritized the right activities to align with penetrating the Global Enterprise market. Prior to Zoom, Jeff spent five years at Meraki where he served in a variety of sales roles with the last two years leading Cisco-Meraki’s Americas Sales Organization. Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2B and has since become Cisco's unified cloud management platform across both Meraki and Cisco networking devices. Prior to Meraki, Jeff spent five years at Voltaire in the role of Global Account Manager; Voltaire technology is now a component of Nvidia's GPU platform. Voltaire was pre-revenue when he joined and he helped lead the company to an IPO in July 2007.Jeff is excited to execute this next chapter in his journey as he has a deep passion for elevating the successes of earlier stage companies, their founders & employees.