Jonathon Feit

Current

• Strategy Consultant at The Feit Company (Wholesale import/export distributor; family business)
• Co-Founder & Managing Director at Feit Experimental Ventures (a Division of the Feit Family Ventures Corp.)
• Co-Founder & Managing Director at Feit Publishing Ventures (a Division of the Feit Family Ventures Corp.)

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Past

• Featured Blogger (Diversity) at Advertising Age
• Lecturer at Boston University Dept. of Journalism
• Background/Field Investigator at Decision Strategies (Now a unit of Vance Global)

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
• Boston University

• Pepperdine University School of Law
• Cornell University

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Connections

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Industry

Medical Devices

Websites

• The Feit Family Ventures Corp.
• On Ad Age's "The Big Tent"
• SOMNION Custom Dream Stimulati

Jonathon Feit’s Summary

Jonathon Feit’s Specialties:

- Business and political negotiations, partnership development

- Branding and marketing (especially to diverse and/or underserved markets)

- Team building and group motivation

Jonathon Feit’s Experience

• Strategy Consultant

  The Feit Company (Wholesale import/export distributor; family business)

  (Import and Export industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Assisted a 55-year-old company ($3.5 million sales) in opening new e-commerce based sales channels to expand the existing worldwide network of industrial sewing machine distributors.
  
  Efforts incorporated human resources development, web development, e-commerce, cost and inventory control, and ancillary ventures.

• Co-Founder & Managing Director

  Feit Experimental Ventures (a Division of the Feit Family Ventures Corp.)

  (Medical Devices industry)

  June 2003 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  - Developing two key projects:
  
  (1) Patent Pending: "SOMNION Custom Dream Stimulation" (www.beyondlucid.com) - a revolutionary device that generates dreams for military, therapeutic, educational, and entertainment applications.
  
  (2) MediView - a Web 2.0-based platform for integrating doctors from developed nations into the “Third World,” where their expertise is sorely needed.

• Co-Founder & Managing Director

  Feit Publishing Ventures (a Division of the Feit Family Ventures Corp.)

  (Online Media industry)

  June 2003 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  Acting role: Chief Editor & Publisher of FPV's magazine and web properties:
  
  - CITIZEN CULTURE MAGAZINE was nicknamed a “New Yorker for a New Generation” by the Boston Herald.
  - WITH THIS RING MAGAZINE is the world’s first all-inclusive weddings magazine (currently at prototype stage).
  
  Recent press: http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall08/feit/
  
  New media publisher and brand consultancy

• Featured Blogger (Diversity)

  Advertising Age

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)

  - Publish a weekly blog on issues of diversity, equality, and inclusiveness in marketing, advertising, media, and corporate America.
  
  - Weekly readership: Approximately 250,000 unique marketing, advertising, and media executives.
  
  ONLINE AT http://adage.com/bigtent/index?sid=Jonathon%20Feit

• Lecturer

  Boston University Dept. of Journalism

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

  - Designed and taught the College of Communication's only new media-focused publishing workshop course
  
  - Students developed original publications from concept to business / marketing plan
  
  - Youngest member of the Faculty

• Background/Field Investigator

  Decision Strategies (Now a unit of Vance Global)

  (Public Company; Security and Investigations industry)

  March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)

  - Corporate and background investigations, asset tracking

Jonathon Feit’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

  MBA, TBD - (most likely Entrepreneurship & Biotechnology), 2008 — 2010 (expected)

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management

  Cert., Entrepreneurship Development Program, 2007 — 2007

• Boston University

  B.A./M.A., Psychology, Religion, and Conflict Negotiations, 1999 — 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Other education includes:
  
  - Certificates in MEDIATION and DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND RELIGION at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law
  
  - Training in Negotiations and Entrepreneurship at the Boston University School of Management

• Pepperdine University School of Law

  Cert., Mediation (Straus Institute), 2003 — 2003

• Cornell University

  n/a, Summer College, 1998 — 1998

Additional Information

Jonathon Feit’s Websites:

• The Feit Family Ventures Corp.
• On Ad Age's "The Big Tent"
• SOMNION Custom Dream Stimulati

Jonathon Feit’s Interests:

- entrepreneurship; biomedical technology; new media and print; business and political negotiations; brand development and marketing

Jonathon Feit’s Groups:

- Society for Neuroscience
- Tourette's Syndrome Association
- American Academy of Religion
- American Society of Magazine Editors
- Independent Magazine Advisory Group
- Magazine Publishers of America

•    Official Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
•    Tepper School of Business BioPharma Business Club Network
•    Boston University Alumni
•    Tepper School of Business Consulting Club

Jonathon Feit’s Honors:

- Named a "Digital Driver" by the Magazine Publishers of America (January 2006)

- Youngest member of the Boston University faculty (former)

Jonathon Feit’s Contact Settings

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