Jeff McGrath is the founder/owner of DRTM Ventures, a business advisory firm that has been providing strategy, operations, corporate transformation and turn-around services to clients for the past 12 years. With experience in both domestic and international markets, Jeff has worked with executives at numerous Fortune 500 and international corporations to address business performance opportunities and challenges.
His more than twenty-five years of experience includes management positions in corporate strategy, marketing, business development, sales, marketing and management consulting. Jeff’s diverse background includes work with early-stage companies, as well as multi-billion dollar public and privately-held companies. As a member of an early-stage start-up, Jeff led the development of the company’s business plan and co-led a late stage funding initiative that raised over $60 million in venture capital funding. At a leading management consulting firm, Jeff was actively involved in business development initiatives that generated over $100 million in professional services fees.
As a life-long learner, Jeff continues to develop and build upon the knowledge he has gained from his diverse work experience by participating in executive education programs at Stanford University, Harvard School of Law, Wharton School of Business and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Based in Sarasota, Fl, Jeff is also an active volunteer with community organizations, economic development and colleges in the Florida Gulf Coast.
A letter from Jeff:
A lifelong learner, I am fortunate to have learned and continue to learn from my professional experiences, educational pursuits and most importantly, from the countless people I have been exposed to in my lifetime. I have learned from famous people (industry and educational luminaries) and ordinary people (the segment which I reside in) in a variety of settings from start-up companies to global Fortune 500 corporations.
The failures I have encountered in my experiences have taught me as much or more than the successes I have been fortunate to have realized throughout my career. I have to credit my grandfather (a successful entrepreneur in his day) for my interest in entrepreneurship and innovation. He was never afraid to fail, realizing that long-term success is dependent on experimenting and as we all know, not every experiment produces a successful outcome. I am sure that he is the basis for my attraction to innovative regions such as Silicon Valley. While my first visit there was from several thousand feet in the air (I was conducting research and development testing as a US Marine on a helicopter-based intelligence platform), I have returned to Silicon Valley over the past two decades for both professional and educational pursuits. I continue to marvel at the energy level and the creativity and innovation that seem to be so pervasive in Silicon Valley, Austin, San Diego, and other innovative regions.
My professional pursuits have taken me throughout the US and to Europe where I continue to marvel at the opportunities that are available to those who are willing to see them and pursue them with motivation, determination and an open and inquisitive mind.
