Jerry is President and Managing Director of Ilium Ventures, a private equity firm he founded in 2008 based in McLean, Virginia.
Before Ilium, he spent nearly 34 years at ExxonMobil, retiring as President of ExxonMobil Lubricants & Petroleum Specialties Company, a $20+ billion global business spanning 100 countries.
His ExxonMobil career included managing the Jurong refinery in Singapore, overseeing a $5 billion global heavy-construction program, and serving as President of ExxonMobil Global Services.
Jerry holds a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering and a master’s in Finance from USC, and a master’s in Civil Engineering from Cal State; he has served on the boards of Focus Technology Consulting and Blu Venture Investors.