
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Feit Experimental Ventures (a Division of the Feit Family Ventures Corp.)
Greater Pittsburgh Area

Co-Founder & Managing Director at Feit Experimental Ventures (a Division of the Feit Family Ventures Corp.)
Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Business and political negotiations, partnership development
- Branding and marketing (especially to diverse and/or underserved markets)
- Team building and group motivation
(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.
(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.
(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
(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
(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
(Public Company; Security and Investigations industry)
March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)
- Corporate and background investigations, asset tracking
MBA, TBD - (most likely Entrepreneurship & Biotechnology), 2008 — 2010 (expected)
Cert., Entrepreneurship Development Program, 2007 — 2007
B.A./M.A., Psychology, Religion, and Conflict Negotiations, 1999 — 2004
Cert., Mediation (Straus Institute), 2003 — 2003
n/a, Summer College, 1998 — 1998
- entrepreneurship; biomedical technology; new media and print; business and political negotiations; brand development and marketing
- Society for Neuroscience
- Tourette's Syndrome Association
- American Academy of Religion
- American Society of Magazine Editors
- Independent Magazine Advisory Group
- Magazine Publishers of America
- Named a "Digital Driver" by the Magazine Publishers of America (January 2006)
- Youngest member of the Boston University faculty (former)