Weekly Startup Meetup: Jeff White @IMSReport

• published: 02 Dec 2014
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http://walnutstlabs.com/event/weekly-startup-meetup-wsl-jeff-white/ Jeff White has spent over 20 years building successful businesses spanning a broad range of industries and establishing himself as a successful investor and entrepreneur. He is currently the owner and CEO of Media Analytics; a rich media based analytics company that acquired IMS in April of 2013. Mr. White is also a Managing Partner of Trestle Ventures and represents Trestle Ventures on the board of Videolicious as well as sitting on the boards of Ecospan and ET International and advising another organizations such as Walnut St Labs and Traffic Cast. Jeff has demonstrated his talent as a leader and innovator across numerous companies and industries. He spent the first 16 years of his career with Hewlett Packard in a variety of Senior Management positions in Enterprise Computing, its legendary Printer Group, as well as the Analytical Life Sciences Business, which was eventually spun out to create Agilent Technologies a Fortune 100 company, where he became the youngest Vice President in the company as the VP of Software, Professional Services and Consumables. During his time in this role, Jeff successfully speard headed multiple acquisitions that lead the company into new high growth markets. As President of NaPro Bio, he led the drug development efforts in Genetic Disease and assisted in the sale of its Therapeutic Cancer business. Later, he became a founder of Fingerworks, a “touch pad” input device provider, as Chairman and CEO, creating strategic partnerships which led to an eventual merger with Apple where their multi-touch platform became the foundation for the revolutionary iPhone, iPad and iPod. He also served as CEO of RCD helping to commercialize its proprietary RFID technology. Mr. White was also instrumental in the creation and capital financing of Coates Analytics, a Financial Services data analytics company, where he served on their board of directors. Coates was later acquired by PNC Bank in a multi-million dollar transaction in 2008. Mr. White also was an early investor and subsequent Chairman of Sivox, a speech recognition company that was later merged with Banker Edge. In 2009 Mr. White became a primary investor and board member of Ecospan, a Bio-plastics company where he served as their President from 2010-2012. Additionally, Mr. White has extensive experience in raising institutional capital for emerging growth companies. Jeff has extensive background as a private investor in emerging growth companies, and actively serves as an advisor and board member to emerging growth companies. He has been guest lecturer at a number of prestigious universities including Harvard Business School as well as Venture Capital Conferences on building successful technology-driven businesses and creating significant shareholder value. He and his companies have been featured in Business Week magazine, the novels The Innovators Dilemma and autobiography Steve Jobs and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. White holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a High Tech MBA from Northeastern University.