Paul Jeffries
Founder of FounderPool
Paul Jeffries
Founder of FounderPool
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Board of Directors
2022 - Current
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
2020
Managing Director
2016
Policy Strategy, Head of Legal Operations
2010 - 2016
Head of Platform Policy Team
2009 - 2010
Head of Platform Developer Operations & Support
2007 - 2009
Venture Capital and Startup Consulting
2006 - 2007
Consultant to venture firms and startups -- helping launch new businesses and providing interim management assistance in operations, strategy, and business development.
Co-Founder
2003 - 2005
An informal forum for technology entrepreneurs to share business war stories, seek advice, and explore technological innovations impacting their work. Each meeting, attended by 40 or so people from an opt-in invitation list of 250, begins with networking over lunch, and segues into an open discussion facilitated by a local entrepreneur. TEN satisfies an unmet need by providing a venue for serious exploration of compelling topics in a roundtable context, enabling networking and conversation among all participants in an environment with a high entrepreneur-to-service-provider ratio.
Director, Venture Capital Group
2005 - 2005
Ritchie Capital Management is a multi-billion-dollar, multi-strategy investment firm with interests in hedge funds, insurance, energy, real estate, venture capital, and private equity, with offices in New York City, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Geneva (Illinois), London, Hong Kong, and Bermuda.
Vice President, Technology and Business Development
2004 - 2005
Echo designs, manufactures, and markets MRI-based quantitative medical diagnostic equipment for laboratory animals and humans.
Director
2003 - 2004
Performance Systems is a boutique international consulting firm providing marketing, strategy, and business development services for companies in IT hardware and software, consumer products, telecom, semiconductor fabrication equipment, medical devices and diagnostics, security, and other spaces.
CEO and Co-Founder
2001 - 2003