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Jeff is an attorney, investment banker and private investor/entrepreneur who has launched, financed and built over 30 technology companies over the past twenty years. Jeff is a registered General Securities Principal with Bridge Capital Advisors, Inc., a NASD registered broker/dealer where he holds Series 24, 7 and 63 licenses. Jeff spends the majority of his time looking for and building breakthrough Internet companies that bring consumers and marketers closer together in win/win situations. Many of these businesses provide consumer entertainment, news or valuable shopping offers personalized and paid for by their favorite advertisers. Jeff also works with breakthrough technology company developing ways to turn waste into clean energy, and with nanotechnology companies creating new eco-friendly materials that break down pollutants and destroy germs in our homes and commercial buildings. Jeff began his career working with big and small companies launching new ventures ranging from video-text, screen phones, Cable TV, interactive kiosks, speech recognition, CD-ROM publishing and Interactive TV. In July 1997, Jeff founded Interactive Capital Partners to focus primarily on companies that could leverage the coming dramatic shift to the Internet in communications and commerce for consumers and businesses. Prior to founding Interactive Capital Partners, Jeff was a General Partner at Southport Partners, a leading high-tech investment banking boutique. As part of this activity, in the early 1990s, Jeff was the lead partner in assisting IBM with analyzing and executing venture capital investments in new consumer interactive services. Prior to joining Southport Partners in 1987, Jeff was VP Business Development for Portel Services Network where he was responsible for developing strategic distribution and content relationships for a patented, low-cost interactive home banking, shopping and consumer information service developed by Hubert Schlafly, the acknowledged technical founder of the cable TV industry as founder of TelePrompTer. Jeff graduated from Colgate University in 1981 and from Boston University School of Law in 1984.Career
InterActive Capital Partners LLC - founder |