Jeff Burton
Areas of Expertise
Entertainment, Culture and Creative Industries;Healthcare and medicine;Investment & Funding;Sustainability & Growth
Jeff was the third employee of ATARI.inc, International Home Computer Division, in 1980, responsible for its business development throughout Europe and the Middle East.
He joined former Stanford classmates as a founding team member of Electronic Arts (EA) in 1982. There he led the company's international expansion from inception until its IPO seven years later.
With the Internet and the dominating role of software development, he founded a series of software companies after leaving Electronic Arts, all results of ideas and skills of recent graduates from Stanford.
For its first 3 years he served as Executive Director at Skydeck Berkeley, the University's only cross-discipline startup accelerator, and today he sits on Boards and was a Partner/Associate at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He was a co-founder of HolodeckVR in Munich, and is a major advisor to BitDegree in addition to being Head of Global Programs for Startup Division by Civitta in Vilnius, Lithuania, plus he was a member of the Board of Advisors for Startup Europe under the European Commission, and is a Member of the Board of Directors for other companies currently engaged with new technologies.
He is now actively advising a Lithuanian company (KILO Health) involved with expanding into digital therapeutics for patients with chronic diabetes and/or cancer; working closely with a Norwegian company (Velixio) in merging Television with streaming, interactive gaming competitions; and developing his own brand.
Entertainment, Culture and Creative Industries;Healthcare and medicine;Investment & Funding;Sustainability & Growth
Jeff was the third employee of ATARI.inc, International Home Computer Division, in 1980, responsible for its business development throughout Europe and the Middle East.
He joined former Stanford classmates as a founding team member of Electronic Arts (EA) in 1982. There he led the company's international expansion from inception until its IPO seven years later.
With the Internet and the dominating role of software development, he founded a series of software companies after leaving Electronic Arts, all results of ideas and skills of recent graduates from Stanford.
For its first 3 years he served as Executive Director at Skydeck Berkeley, the University's only cross-discipline startup accelerator, and today he sits on Boards and was a Partner/Associate at the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He was a co-founder of HolodeckVR in Munich, and is a major advisor to BitDegree in addition to being Head of Global Programs for Startup Division by Civitta in Vilnius, Lithuania, plus he was a member of the Board of Advisors for Startup Europe under the European Commission, and is a Member of the Board of Directors for other companies currently engaged with new technologies.
He is now actively advising a Lithuanian company (KILO Health) involved with expanding into digital therapeutics for patients with chronic diabetes and/or cancer; working closely with a Norwegian company (Velixio) in merging Television with streaming, interactive gaming competitions; and developing his own brand.