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Mr. Spencer served a broad range of clients for several years at Ernst & Young. He worked in the firm’s national office in New York assisting the development of professional policies and resolving client matters nationwide in the audit accounting and SEC areas. Jack served as the Managing Partner of their Rhode Island office before transferring to Atlanta. He was the Market Segment Team Leader for Ernst & Young’s Life Sciences industry practice in the Southeast. He retired in 2000.
Mr. Spencer served as coordinating partner for clients principally in the manufacturing distribution and/or technology industries including two Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. He has significant expertise in coordinating services to publicly held companies including involvement in more than 200 registration statements and over 25 initial public offerings. He provided audit and financial related services for over 100 merger and acquisition transactions. He has worked with many Boards and Audit Committees.
Active in Georgia’s technology community he served as president and a director of the Business and Technology Alliance (B&TA). He was a cofounder and is treasurer of the Atlanta Venture Forum an association of venture capital investors in the Southeast and he recently completed two years as the President of the Georgia Biomedical Partnership. In addition he was a cofounder of the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia. In January 2002 Jack was awarded the Georgia Biomedical Partnership’s First Annual award for being a principal architect of the biomedical community in Georgia. In September 2002 the Atlanta Business Chronicle included him in its list of 25 Names To Know In Atlanta Biotechnology.
Jack is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of: A C Therapeutics Inc.; GeneEx Inc.; and OrthoHelix Surgical Designs Inc. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Firstwave Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq FSTW) and is the Chair of its Audit Committee. In addition Jack is a Director of BioFlorida and the Georgia Biomedical Partnership.
Jack holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University where he serves on the Accounting Faculty Advisory Board and he earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson College. He also completed the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.
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