Jeff has over 17 years of experience in retained executive search. His practice is focused on serving private equity-backed enterprise software, tech-enabled services providers, and Health IT companies and his placements include board directors, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and other direct reports to the CEO who head critical functions.
Before launching Burnham Root, Jeff held leadership positions at True, The Lancer Group, Cook Associates and CTPartners (formerly Christian & Timbers). Prior to his career in executive search, Jeff was a Partner at a Boston-based venture capital firm where he worked on deal sourcing and investing in early-stage enterprise technology and consumer internet deals. Early on, Jeff worked at Microsoft, where he helped launch Microsoft’s widely-used database product, Access.
Jeff earned his MBA at the University of Michigan. His long-time interest in human capital issues stems from a study he led during his second year at Michigan, which focused on how corporate culture serves as a growth engine in the Fortune 1000.
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