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A passion for Experience
Jeff has spent his career creating all types of engaging experiences for Fortune 500 software, product, digital, and lifestyle brands. His passion is inspiring and leading teams to design and deliver innovative and meaningful experiences that enrich people's lives and elevate their potential.
As a senior executive experience leader known for his vision, strategy, and execution, Jeff has a proven track record for building and leading high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams that create products and platforms used by millions of people worldwide.
Most recently, Jeff was the SVP and Chief Product Experience Officer at Qualtrics where he led a unified product, research, design, UX, and product science organization. Prior to Qualtrics, he was the SVP and Chief Product Experience Officer at Workday, responsible for the experience platform across the suite of Workday products for 65 million users worldwide.
Before Workday, Jeff led multi-disciplinary product, design, and engineering teams at Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft creating digital products, customer and employee experiences, and building systems and tools for various businesses.
Jeff has served on the Board of Trustees at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and the Digital Innovation Advisory Council for St. Jude Children's Hospital. He's a founding member of the Design Executive Council (DXC), leads the Seattle chapter, working to advance the transformational shift of AI in product development. He is active in the industry, speaking at conferences, on podcasts and panels, and advising leaders.
Jeff enjoys the outdoors – surfing, paddleboarding, snowboarding. He loves music, design, architecture, cooking and entertaining. Most of all, he enjoys spending quality time with his wife, four children, family and close friends.
