Jeff Erle

Award-winning CEO and mentor Jeff Erle is a human-centric, talent-first leader with a broad set of experiences and competencies in various industries. With a BA from The Johns Hopkins University, Erle leads companies through transitions such as scaling for high-growth, process improvement, turnaround, or M&A. His leadership style emphasizes "open leadership," which involves being open, transparent, and authentic to enable amazing cultures and develop high-performing teams. Erle's track record includes delivering revenue growth, increasing profits, guiding successful exits, analyzing data to inform new strategies, building new external relationships and partnerships, adapting business models, and enabling rapid technology deployment. He has served as CEO, COO, board member, and consultant at various companies such as Blast, MobilityWare, Wave Strategy Consulting, and Western Digital. Additionally, Erle previously served as Vice President and General Manager at ADP and Partner and Managing Director at The Robert Thomas Group. Erle's extensive leadership experience allows him to develop product extensions, energize sales organizations, create digital marketing programs, manage projects, design organizations, and optimize mergers/acquisitions.