Tony Jeff is president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi. Jeff is a graduate of Mississippi State University and Northwestern University. He joined Innovate Mississippi in 2002, and took over as the company’s chief in 2010. He recently spoke to Sun Senior Staff Writer Anthony Warren about the organization and its efforts to help entrepreneurs. He and his wife Sheila have two children.
What is Innovate Mississippi?
“People think of us now as the Mississippi ‘Shark Tank, but we work with companies from the idea stage … to help them develop their plans and connect with the resources they need to execute on those plans. Those resources eventually include money. We work with 100 plus companies a year, and 10 of those (will have ideas that will be) introduced to investors.”
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