Paul Jerde

Paul Jerde is Executive Director of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Advisory Board of CU's Technology Transfer Office. Previously, Mr. Jerde co-founded Corboy and Jerde, LLC, an investment banking firm specializing in private transactions for emerging growth and medium sized businesses.  He has served as CEO and Chairman of Requisite Technology, Inc., an early-stage electronic commerce information services business, and as CEO of public biotechnology research firm Cortech, Inc. and of Mountain Medical Equipment, a medical products company. Mr. Jerde received his BA in Mathematics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the College of Business and Administration (now the Leeds School of Business) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.