“Putting the right people in the right places to secure, scale, and serve.”
Jeffrey David Pratt is a multifaceted technology executive whose four-decade career has consistently bridged mission, modernization, and measurable impact. From federal service to high-velocity private-sector growth, he has earned a reputation for turning complex IT environments into reliable, secure, and business-aligned platforms. He leads with quiet confidence and a builder’s mindset, balancing strategic vision with the hands-on engineering judgment that only years at the console can teach. His guiding belief is simple: great systems are built by great teams—properly placed, properly supported, and inspired by a clear mission.
Jeff’s leadership journey began in the data center and on the network floor, a foundation that still informs his decisions in the boardroom. At RaceTrac Petroleum, he led enterprise server implementations, built a 24/7 Network Operations Center, and sustained a customer-facing POS environment at 99.9% uptime while orchestrating a data-center migration with just 45 minutes of downtime. Those years formed his operating DNA: design for resilience, measure relentlessly, and communicate clearly. He learned to align budgets, architecture, and operational rigor so that technology became an enabler of growth rather than a constraint.
His early management success accelerated into executive leadership roles where scale and complexity multiplied. As Director of IT/CIO at JMDS, Jeff stood up the full technology stack from the ground up—negotiating vendor contracts, shaping the hiring plan, and building secure voice and data networks that could grow with the business. He developed the instincts of a builder-operator, comfortable making architectural calls in the morning and people decisions in the afternoon. That blend of technical acuity and organizational design would become one of his hallmarks.
At the Internal Revenue Service, Jeff took on national-scale responsibility in roles that touched every American taxpayer. As Systems Support Section Chief, he delivered eight filing seasons with zero downtime and steered incident management across Cisco-based environments, NIDS/HIDS deployments, and Active Directory for high-security contact center operations. He embedded FISMA, NIST, and ISO discipline into daily practice, completing eight independent audits without issue. Years later, as Supervisory IT Specialist and Network Services Branch Chief, he led more than 70 engineers and managers across CCG/Firewall, on-prem, cloud, ECC, and load balancers—driving long-range initiatives such as IPv6, SD-WAN, and SASE while instituting the multi-year planning, budgeting, and HR structures that strengthen continuity and accountability.
In the private sector, Jeff’s impact expanded across digital transformation and workforce development. At SimplePart LLC, he achieved PCI certification, elevated GDPR posture, and executed a pragmatic cloud migration of IIS and SQL workloads into Azure with thoughtful network segmentation and change control. These were not check-the-box moves; they were business decisions that lowered risk, improved time-to-market, and created a foundation for stable growth. He showed how governance, when well-designed, accelerates rather than slows innovation.
At Amazon, Jeff’s remit spanned both scale and speed. As an IT Manager and later Technical Program Manager II, he oversaw IT across four large fulfillment centers and 18 satellite sites, leading 14 greenfield facility builds and 25 infrastructure upgrades. He integrated legacy ticketing and project workflows into ServiceNow (ITSM/SPM), produced actionable reporting with Tableau, QuickSight, and Redshift, and consistently topped regional customer satisfaction metrics while sustaining a 95% on-time closure rate. These achievements reflect not only program rigor, but also Jeff’s philosophy that great operations are the daily expression of great strategy.
As Vice President of IT and Security at Version 3 Technology & Security, Jeff synthesized everything he had learned about modernization, cyber resilience, and people systems. He led an enterprise-wide transformation that cut operating costs by 40% and improved reliability by 60%, consolidated platforms for a 35% uplift in service delivery, and deployed security protocols aligned to NIST, ISO, and SOC that reduced incidents by 90%. He moved 85% of services to Azure without critical downtime and built a leadership pipeline in which 70% of promotions were filled from within. The throughline: orchestrating technology, process, and talent so the organization becomes stronger than the sum of its parts.
Jeff’s industry footprint stretches across federal government, manufacturing, automotive, warehousing, and eCommerce—environments where uptime, safety, compliance, and customer trust are non-negotiable. He is equally at ease discussing firewall architectures and load balancers as he is debating capital allocations, risk appetite, and strategic horizons. He negotiates multimillion-dollar vendor agreements with the same discipline he brings to audit readiness, translating technical risk into business terms that executives and boards can act upon. In each setting, he puts the mission first, then designs the system—and the team—to achieve it.
A credentialed leader, Jeff maintains a portfolio of industry certifications and professional learning that keeps him current while grounded: CISM (ISACA), historical CISSP, Extreme Network Administrator, and PCI Web Developer. He has invested deeply in formal leadership and agile coursework, ensuring that his methods scale with the times—across cloud, automation, and data-driven decisioning. He is an active member of ISACA and ISC², and he shares his expertise through private security trainings, believing that better-informed teams are safer, faster, and more innovative.
Jeff’s motivations for board service are pragmatic and people-oriented. He is drawn to companies with at least fifty employees where his experience in IT strategy, cyber risk, and organizational design can accelerate profitable growth. He enjoys building the connective tissue among audit, risk, and operations committees so technology decisions are transparent, metrics are meaningful, and investments compound. Above all, he is committed to placing the right leaders in the right roles, because he has seen how a well-aligned team can change the trajectory of a business—and the lives of the people who make it run.
Beyond the office, Jeff is a family-centric leader who enjoys football, baseball, softball, and NASCAR, and who’s just as comfortable talking about the best fine-dining spot on a cruise as he is about SD-WAN or incident response. Internationally, his experience spans the Middle East and England, adding a useful global context to supply chains, regulation, and talent markets. He understands that durable enterprises are built by cultures that care about people and performance in equal measure.
Jeffrey David Pratt brings more than forty years of business and technology judgment to the boardroom. He has repeatedly proven that strong governance and operational excellence can coexist with speed and innovation. His career tells a consistent story: when leaders align mission, architecture, and talent, organizations scale securely—and customers, citizens, and shareholders all win.
Character:
Jeff operates with steadiness and integrity, choosing transparency even when decisions are difficult. He treats people with respect and sets expectations that are clear, fair, and consistent. He believes trust is earned daily through reliability, preparation, and follow-through.
Knowledge:
He pairs deep technical experience in networks, cloud, and cybersecurity with an operator’s view of budgets, risk, and growth. He keeps his knowledge current through certifications, continuous learning, and hands-on engagement with modern toolchains. He translates complex systems into clear choices that leadership can evaluate and act upon.
Strategic:
Jeff connects multi-year roadmaps to quarterly deliverables, ensuring outcomes that compound over time. He aligns architecture with business goals, balancing resilience, cost, and speed. He treats talent design as a strategic asset, building teams that can own and extend the plan.
Communication:
He writes and speaks with clarity, converting technical risk into business language that boards and executives understand. He listens first, calibrates to the audience, and leaves meetings with shared goals and crisp next steps. He uses data to inform, stories to inspire, and cadence to keep teams moving.
