Jeff Dirks

Jeff is currently SVP for Technology Innovation at Outerwall (previously Coinstar). As a C-level executive, Jeff has successfully participated in and led over $100 million in venture capital fund raising for early-to-mid stage start-ups in both up and down business cycles (Goldman Sachs, Madrona Venture Group, Chevron Technology Ventures, Polaris Ventures, Spectrum Equity, FT Ventures and Voyager Capital among others). Jeff has extensive enterprise sales leadership experience in areas such as commercial finance and banking, ERP/SCM, and enterprise infrastructure applications (enterprise search, content/records/document management). Operationally Jeff has been responsible for building and leading commercial software engineering teams spanning 100 – 150 FTE’s. (FourGen, SchemaLogic, Coinstar) and has led some of the largest enterprise software implementations of their time in market segments such as ERP/Supply Chain (General Electric) and financial services (Bank of America).