Jeff founded Clivia Systems in April 2002 after leaving Intel. Clivia is exploring a number of ideas and opportunities (including consulting, advising and investing). Jeff's interests include technology (e.g. communications, security, processing, information representation, autonomous systems, and complex/self-organizing systems), science and business.

Jeff co-founded the Common Grant Application in March 2007. The Common Grant Application provides an efficient and inexpensive means for non-profit grant makers to receive, review and manage online grant applications and for non-profit grant seekers to create, submit and manage online grant applications.

I joined the the Board of Directors of NASDAQ listed Guidance Software (GUID) in 2008. Guidance Software provides software solutions for government, corporate and law enforcement organizations to conduct thorough, network-enabled, and court-validated computer investigations of any kind, such as responding to eDiscovery requests, conducting internal investigations, responding to regulatory inquiries or performing data and compliance auditing.

The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to non-profit environmental, education, health, human services organizations inside and outside of the US. The foundation is currently receiving over 500 grant requests per year and has made grants and commitments of over $2.5 million since its inception. The foundation makes both program and operating grants and has also organized and hosted a workshop of environmental economists from academic institutions throughout the US.

Jeff served in a variety of strategic and vision roles in the Network Communications Group (NCG) and then in the Intel Communications Group (ICG) after the Intel Corporation acquired Trillium in August 2000. The Intel Communications Group provided network infrastructure silicon and software building blocks for optical, Ethernet, broadband, wireless, storage, network processing and signal processing.

Jeff co-founded, with Larisa Chistyakov, Trillium Digital Systems in February 1988 and served as President & CEO prior to its acquisition by Intel in August 2000, at which time Trillium became a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel.

Trillium Digital Systems was a leading provider of communications software solutions to communications equipment manufacturers building the converged wireless, Internet, broadband and telephone infrastructure. Trillium licensed its source code software solutions to more than 300 companies throughout the world for use in a wide range of telecommunications products. Trillium's solutions consisted of software products and services for data, voice and high availability. Jeff, along with his team, built Trillium from 2 people, 0 products, $0 revenue and $1,000 initially invested capital at its founding in February 1988 to 250+ people, 100+ products consisting of millions of lines of source code and about $30 million annual revenue in 2000. During the first 11 years of its growth Trillium did this with no debt and no outside investors, purely funding its growth from cash flow. Trillium raised $14 million of private equity in 1999 in preparation for a public financing and was subsequently acquired by Intel in August 2000 for $300 million. Jeff led, built, motivated and grew a team with a unique and deep understanding of the communications software industry with a culture and commitment to the customer and success during a period of continual and rapid change in the technology, market, competitive and financial environment.

The comprehensive history of Trillium is described in a two part case study written for the UCLA Anderson Business School. It may be found at: "Trillium Digital Systems Case Study: 1996 - 2003" and "Trillium Digital Systems Case Study: 1988 - 1995".

Managed, specified, designed and brought to production a new communications controller for protocol transparent LAN and WAN access products.

Amdahl Corporation - Communications Systems Division

(formerly Tran Telecommunications)

Managed and conducted market, competitive and technological analysis used to formulate product requirements for a next generation data switch. Managed, specified, designed and brought to production new features and enhancements for a high performance packet switch designed for the large enterprise and public network infrastructures.