Jack has over 25 years of corporate development experience in both the private and social impact sectors. His experience includes creating strategic plans, developing new products, and negotiating strategic partnerships. His success is evident given that he has been recruited back to multiple organizations like Gartner Group and Warner Music to help them with new initiatives.
Jack graduated from the Wharton School of Business with his Bachelor’s degree, Jack served as a Certified Public Accountant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Philadelphia where his audit clients included Campbell Soup Company and DuPont de Nemours. Jack then moved on to earn his MBA at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. At Michigan, Jack was chosen to participate in an exchange program managed by the William Davidson Institute. As part of this program, Jack worked in Poland with a consulting firm helping companies with their privatization strategies after the fall of Communism. It was here that Jack found his adeptness at being able to navigate his way through non-traditional business environments to help organizations identify and execute on growth opportunities.
Jack has been a key contributor to two IPOs, five acquisitions, two divestitures, and countless product launches in multiple sectors across the world. More recently, Jack has been working with social impact companies, and he has worked with social entrepreneurs who are starting companies in Jack excels as a connector, and having traveled to almost forty countries, he has hands-on experience managing bringing together cross-functional teams of internal staff and externals partners on six continents.
After recently living for two years in Kenya, Jack has developed a personal interest in helping early-stage social enterprises that have the dual purpose of generating a profit, as well as nonprofits who are looking to develop sustainable revenues streams. He actively mentors social entrepreneurs on a global basis, advising them with their growth and operational strategies.
