About Me
Currently: Jason lives in sunny Los Angeles and is the CEO and founder of analytics startup yoyometrics. Jason’s passion for data inspired him to find new ways of analyzing previously-overlooked information and using it to help clients make better decisions.
During his free time, Jason LOVES to eat/cook delicious food. He paints with oils and blogs (mostly about all the fantastic food he eats). One of his goals in life is to open an avocado-themed restaurant, and one day become a professor at Babson College, following in the foot steps of his advisors.
Background: Jason has done everything from selling ketchup packets in at his fourth grade barbeque, to designing websites, to building and selling computers, to running a college laundry/room cleaning service. Most notably, while a junior at Babson College in 2006, Jason co-founded Paragon Lake (now called Gemvara), an online retailer of fine customized jewelry. Jason comes from a family background in the jewelry and diamond industry. He started his own company building on his family background. In just a couple years, he took the concept from an idea on three PowerPoint slides and transformed it to an institutionally funded company that recently raised its Series B rounds. Now Gemvara totals over $11 million in venture capital. He assembled a leadership team that included industry veterans from both the software and jewelry industry. Like many entrepreneurs he recognized that it was time to pass the torch to his leadership team and remain a large shareholder while working on his next tech venture.
Not merely satisfied with success in business, Jason presently serves as an Ambassador for the Young Leadership Division of the Combined Jewish Philanthropy and is involved with a Los Angeles big brother program.
Education: Jason graduated Magna Cum Laude at Babson College where he earned his B.S. in Business Management.
Accomplishments:
- Named one of the Top Five Entrepreneurs under the age of 25 by Business Week (“The Winners: Best U.S. Entrepreneurs Under 25,” 11/15/2006)
- Named one of the Top 20 Entrepreneurs in their 20s by Los Angeles Business Journal (“Jewelry takes shape on web,” 7/8/2008)
- Six-time Dean’s Honor List Recipient at Babson College
- 1st Place in 2007 John H. Muller Award Business Plan Competition
- 2007 Shelby Collin Davis Social Entrepreneurship Prize
- 2007 Student Business of the Year Award at Babson College
- 2007 Arthur M. Blank Entrepreneurial Studies Award
- Strategy team member, 2nd Place for 2007 National Case Competition