Jeffrey Vogel has over 16 years experience in operating and financing high tech software companies. Prior to co-founding Velocity in 2000, Jeff was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development for eBusiness Technologies, a leader in XML Content Management Systems. In 1989, Jeff co-founded Electronic Book Technologies (EBT), a pioneer in SGML and XML information systems. At EBT Jeff led R&D until 1996 when he helped sell the company to Inso, a publicly traded company. From 1996 to 1998, Jeff was Vice President of Engineering at Inso's Electronic Publishing Solutions business unit and was also very active in the company's corporate development activities where he helped acquire and integrate upwards of a half dozen acquisitions.

Jeff represents or has represented Velocity as a board member or board observer in a number of portfolio companies, including AccuRev, BEZ, WebDialogs, Nexaweb, Digital LightCircuits, and Collego.

Jeff currently is a Director of the Slater Center for Interactive Technology as well as Vice President and Executive Board member of the JCC of Rhode Island. He holds an A.B. in Computer Science and Economics from Brown University and is married with one daughter.