Jack Savidge - EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE – INTERNAL VENTURING
Jack Savidge has over 40 years of line management, CEO, Board of Director, and consulting experience. He is regarded as an expert in entrepreneurism, strategy development, technology commercialization, and corporate internal venturing.
As part of his work, Jack’s guides management to increase employee innovation by building internal deal flow, to install new idea selection filters, to model a new business, to perform due diligence, and to invest in and continually mentor internally originated new ventures. He also conducts fair value due diligence by creating or confirming technology and market assumptions for venture investment or new corporate external acquisition diversification.
Jack has experience coaching governments, global industrial firms, and institutions of higher learning on how-to assess their demographic and culture to embrace and encourage entrepreneurial activity. Client results include an increased idea flow from the targeted populations, overall reduction of entrepreneur risk aversion to start a venture, more rapid attainment of business creation milestones, higher quality business models for investment funding, more self-assured entrepreneurs to build management teams, and higher ratios of venture success to then impact their communities.
With diverse experience, Jack has served on twenty-six corporate Boards of Directors, performing additional duties as Audit, Executive, Compensation and Nominating Committee Chairperson. Public company Boards served were in the fields of: semiconductor manufacture; electronic image projection manufacturing; soft contact lenses; and the HMO industry. He has worked for 3M, Eastman Kodak, and smaller organizations in various industries.
Jack is the author of two books, Marketing Intelligence - Discover What Your Customers Really Want and What Your Competition Is Up To! and The Pathmaster Guidebook – Mentors, Coaches, Gurus and Angels. He has been a part of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) for over 25 years and currently serves as the Deputy Director of the William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism & Technology Advancement.
Jack and his wife have five children and ten grandchildren. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Jack has been a southern California resident for the past 33 years.
