Paul Jerde - Director of the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business and The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship

Paul Jerde is the Director of the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business and The Deming Center for Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Jerde has held a number of senior general management and senior financial management positions with private and public companies in a broad variety of industries and markets. He has also served on the boards of directors of a number of public and private companies. His management experiences have included early stage start-ups and emerging growth companies, later stage established companies and companies undergoing substantial transition or turn-arounds.

Mr. Jerde co-founded Corboy and Jerde, LLC, an investment banking firm specializing in private transactions for emerging growth and medium sized businesses. The firm’s clients reflected the diversity and rapid growth profiles typified by the expanding entrepreneurially driven sector of companies in the Rocky Mountain region. Previously, Mr. Jerde was CEO and Chairman of Requisite Technology, Inc., an early stage electronic commerce information services business. Requisite created proprietary state-of-the-art “universal” cataloging processes and electronic cataloging technology that enabled a foundation for successful e-Commerce
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Mr. Jerde received his M.B.A. from the Business School at the University of Colorado. He has served for several years as a member of the Advisory Board of the Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado-Boulder.

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