Creative Leader, Strategist, & Entrepreneurial Thinker
Jerry Ross is a life-long entrepreneur, beginning his corporate career with Ohio Bell (AT&T) and Goal Systems Software (CA Technologies). Since 1989, Jerry has been an active entrepreneur with successful ventures in lighting, real estate and publishing, in Orlando, Atlanta and Los Angeles. In 2007, Jerry was selected in a nationwide search to become President of the National Entrepreneur Center, housing 16 business support organizations, who trained over 125,000 entrepreneurs under his leadership. It is through this role, which he held until retiring in early 2023, where Jerry fostered wide community support for entrepreneurship and measurable economic impact by empowering founders and small business owners to start, grow, and scale businesses!
He is a member of Leadership Florida and is proud to have served as a founding board member of the Center for American Entrepreneurship in Washington, D.C. from 2015-2021.
Jerry holds a BA in Business and Communications from Heidelberg University, a MBA from Dayton University.