Jeff Edwards

I am fortunate to be a West Point and United States Army trained Leader of strong moral character, a University of Virginia trained systems engineer (industrial engineering) and a Harvard MBA trained business executive and leader with deep experience in Starting, Incubating, Developing, Transforming, Leading, Growing and Investing in a host of people, teams, companies, and organizations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and in start-up to Fortune 500 sized corporations. Investment areas include Digital Health, Defense Tech, EdTech, Cleantech and others.

Recognized by my peers and colleagues as a principle-based leader with deep and diverse operations, product and business development experiences in a broad range of technologies that disrupt the status quo, drive business efficiency and accelerate change.
On the revenue side, I am a strategic thinker who isn't afraid to roll up my sleeves with the team. Demonstrated ability to grow revenue and market share through competitive analysis, channel development and partnership strategies leading to successful product or services launches and the resulting revenue growth. On the operations side, I enjoy bringing together People, Process and Technology to create trans-formative business solutions. Business is simple, BUT, there is a playbook for each phase of corporate growth.

INTERESTS:
Working with and investing in entrepreneurs (See Park City Angels, VBGS and SPARC Health details):
Fostering and promoting Educational alignment with the technology-centric jobs of the future. (Mentored dozens of young leaders since 2005)
Designing tools and programs to accelerate the implementation of Blended Learning and Experiential Learning to spread through our K-12 and Higher Education systems more quickly (See Campus Pipeline, PCCAPs)

STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
I have had the good fortune to study, analyze, coach, mentor, train, lead and consult with hundreds of entrepreneurs and their enterprises. My team(s) and I captured our Best Practices in VBGS Institute™ The founding principle of the Institute is that People and Teams are the most important "Assets" in a culture enabled organization. The Institute is comprised of 20+ educational modules that enable Entrepreneurs and Corporate Intrapreneurs to grow and scale their Idea into a Team / Business Unit while avoiding the top 3 reasons for business failure. I am always looking to learn from others, SO, please ping me and lets discuss Entrepreneurship and its impact on the growing and transforming Knowledge Economy.