PJ

Paul Jeffries

FounderPool & Venture Capital & Blockchain SPAC (now), Facebook (back then), Physics & Philosophy (way back then)

United States

Invests in

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO)

    2020

  • Managing Director

    2016

2007 - 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