Jeff Pompeo is a serial entrepreneur with deep experience leading large corporate organizations as well as innovative technology and Med-Tech start-ups. He has held executive leadership positions with global companies such as General Electric, and Analogic as well as with a diverse group of private consulting and technology firms. Jeff got his first taste of entrepreneurship while CIO of General Electric’s Industrial Automation unit, when he served as founding President and CEO of a joint venture between GE and Cisco Systems focused on Industrial data networks. Having been smitten by the entrepreneurial bug, he left GE in 2000 to help launch a Telecom startup, raising $60M in venture capital and growing to over 150 employees before exit. Jeff then went on to hold senior executive positions in numerous other Start-Up firms in the Telecom, MedTech, and Electronics Engineering spaces.
Currently, Jeff serves as President and CEO of Caretaker Medical Corp, a Medical Device startup that has launched an FDA-Cleared Wireless Wearable that remotely and non invasively monitors Continuous Blood Pressure, Hemodynamics, and Fluid Response. Previous to starting Caretaker Medical, Jeff served as President & CEO of PocketSonics Ultrasound, a spin-out from the University of Virginia that developed a Handheld Ultrasound platform for guiding vascular access procedures, which exited to Analogic Corporation in 2014.
Jeff holds a degree in Computer Information Systems from James Madison University and an MBA from Virginia Tech. He lives in Charlottesville, VA with his wife Lisa. He served on the board of directors of TSO3 Corporation through their acquisition by Stryker, currently serves on the board of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and is an advisor to numerous startups in the MedTech ecosystem.