A serial entrepreneur in the IT industry since 1960, Jeffery was the CEO and founder of On-Line Business Systems, Inc. of San Francisco, a company that specialized in providing online real-time transaction services for more than 2,000 clients, and CEO and founder of Convene.com, which became a leader in online distance education over the Internet. He now serves on many boards, mentors emerging companies, and is the co-founder of www.mysearchengineads.com