Jeff Thompson, Managing Director, has over 20 years experience in marketing strategy, marketing operations and strategic business development. Prior to consulting, Jeff held senior marketing and business development roles at both large and small firms including Sprint, Oracle and NorthPoint Communications. His career also includes an extensive background at IBM in several marketing and sales roles of increasing responsibility.

He has successfully launched multiple SMB and enterprise product and service offerings and has led large channel and partner organizations as part of several of his roles. Jeff’s consulting career began in 2004 and during the past 4 years, he has led BusinessLaunch Consulting Services and now Aventi Group in delivering interim marketing leadership to many clients in the high tech industry. Jeff is also the President – Elect for the Northern California Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC), a national consulting professional organization. Jeff holds a BS in physics from the University of California, Davis and a MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA.