Jeff Sandefer

Jeff Sandefer is a Master Teacher with the Acton School of Business. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Sandefer's latest venture was Sandefer Capital Partners, an energy investment firm that held over $1 billion in assets. For the last 20 years, Mr. Sandefer has also taught entrepreneurship at the graduate level. Six years ago, Mr. Sandefer and a group of successful entrepreneurs left a nationally recognized program they had built at the University of Texas to start the Acton School of Business. For four consecutive years, Acton was rated among the top MBA programs in the country by The Princeton Review which declared Acton's students to be the "most competitive" MBAs in America and rated the faculty in the top three in the nation. While at the University of Texas, Mr. Sandefer was voted five times by students as "Outstanding Teacher" and was named by Business Week as one of the top entrepreneurship professors in the United States. He has served for over a decade on Harvard University's Visiting Committee and as Chair of the university's Academic Research Committee. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Philanthropy Roundtable, is a director of National Review magazine, formerly served as Chairman of the Acton Institute of Religion and Liberty, and was a member of Texas Governor Rick Perry's 21'st Century Commission on Higher Education, and is a Texas Public Policy Foundation Board Member.