I started my career at 22 with a one-way ticket to Tokyo and a mandate to build Morgan Stanley's Japanese telecom research practice from scratch. Telecommunications was the infrastructure story of the early 1990s, and mobile communications was just emerging as its most exciting frontier. I recognized the opportunity early, built a top-ranked practice, and within two years was the only foreigner named to Japan's Nikkei Shimbun Top 20 Analysts list.
That work earned me a broader mandate — Hong Kong, and responsibility for all of Asian telecommunications. We built a #1-ranked practice across the region. Then New York called, with a different challenge entirely: coverage of an emerging category that had no established name yet. We called it internet infrastructure. The world eventually called it the cloud. By 2000, First Call/Thompson named me the Most Widely Read Analyst Worldwide. I was 30, a Morgan Stanley Managing Director, and I had now been early on two generational infrastructure cycles.
The buyside came next — first building and running the European operations of a multi-billion dollar long-short fund in London, then co-founding my own. I learned something important on that side of the table: the analysts who understood the technology were almost always right about the companies. The ones who didn't were almost always wrong.
I founded JC Venture Capital in 2008 to invest the way I always believed was right — with conviction, long time horizons, and without the constraints of a fund structure. Since then I've been a seed investor and board director at HealthSnap, now a category leader in digital health, and invested in Cohere AI's C-Round alongside Nvidia and Oracle. Every investment starts with the same question I asked in Tokyo in 1992: is this the infrastructure for something that doesn't exist yet?
Giving Back
Jeffrey's commitment to the investment community extends well beyond his own portfolio. He has dedicated significant time to educating the next generation of founders, operators, and investors across Miami and beyond.
University of Miami
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration (2008–2013). Taught Investment Practicum — an MBA elective replicating the training for new associates in PE, VC, and hedge funds.
'Cane Angel Network
Founding Managing Director of the University of Miami-affiliated angel investment network, training graduate students in due diligence, deal structure, and early-stage investing.
Softbank Operator School
Founding member and contributing educator for Softbank's Masterclass series on entrepreneurial education, featuring C-level speakers from Softbank portfolio companies.
May We Help — 501(c)3
The best founders I've backed share one trait: they find a way regardless of the obstacles. The children we serve through May We Help — kids with disabilities who need adapted tools just to play, create, and connect — are no different. My daughters and I lead the Miami Chapter because we believe in backing potential wherever we find it. These kids are builders too.