Jeff is the former Director of Business Development at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he held this role for ten years (until 2015).
He has been teaching Effective Nonverbal Communication skills at Stanford Continuing Studies (every quarter since 2006) and at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes (since 2015). He conducts workshops at corporations (Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, United Nations WIPO, etc.) and Universities (Bocconi University, Politecnico di Milano, HEC France, etc.)
He is a Mentor at several incubators such as Plug and Play (Sunnyvale – California, Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Modena), Draper University (US), StartX (US), and Cubo (Brazil), where he helps entrepreneurs improve the impact of the delivery of their pitches. He conducts lectures and workshops in several languages and frequently uses his formal training in professional acting (Mime). Jeff teaches Effective Nonverbal Communication, Storytelling & the Art of Pitching (Pitch Polishing + Slide Deck Polishing) and helps startups polish their 5-minute pitches to increase their chances of raising money from Venture Capitalists.
Jeff has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School (University of Pennsylvania).