Mr. Jeff Thomas has been Vice President of Sales at The NASDAQ Private Market, LLC since February 2014. Mr. Thomas served as Vice President of Business Development at Owler, Inc. Mr. Thomas is an experienced business development executive and led the west coast office of SecondMarket. Mr. Thomas served as Senior Vice President of Private Company Market at SecondMarket, Inc. Mr. Thomas served as a Vice President at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped private equity and venture capital investors source deals, perform due diligence, and manage their portfolio companies by leveraging the GLG Councils, a worldwide network of subject matter experts. Mr. Thomas served as a Sales Manager of Altera Corporation, where he led the worldwide technical account team for Cisco Systems. He holds the Series 7, 63, and 24 licenses. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on trading alternative assets and liquidity options for private companies. Mr. Thomas graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University and received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.