Founder, CEO, and Executive Director, Conscious Venture Lab; Managing General Partner, Conscious Venture Partners, LLC; Founder, CEO, and Managing Partner, The Porter Group, LLC

Over the last 35 years, Jeff Cherry has built award-winning companies in engineering, design, strategic consulting, and investment management. He has been a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executives, government agencies, and startups, with a focus on helping teams understand customers and build dynamic, high-performing organizational cultures. As the managing general partner of the Conscious Venture Fund, Jeff has helped launch more than 100 early-stage venture backed companies. He currently serves on the Compensation Committee of the McKean Defense Group board, a $100MM engineering services company, where he advises the company on organizational culture and technology trends. Jeff also sits on the board of Hungry Harvest, LLC, a food delivery startup where he recently assisted with the closing of their $13.7MM Series A financing.

Jeff has been honored as one of the top ten people in technology in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal. In 2018, the Vatican awarded him the inaugural Laudato Si Challenge Impact award for entrepreneurs who are working to change the relationship between business and society. More recently, the tech journal Technical.ly named Jeff their 2020 Baltimore Impact Leader of the Year, and the Conscious Venture Lab accelerator, which he founded in 2013, was named one of the ten greatest social impact programs in the world in 2019.