Jack Gilbride
Investment Professional and Executive Advisor
CREEDA Mentor
Startup Founder
Fintech
Investment
Venture Capital
Jack currently serves on the boards of the Colorado Flights Alliance, which negotiates and provides revenue guarantees to airlines to provide service to southwestern Colorado airports and Region 10 which provides senior services, small business services and regional development support to six western Colorado counties. Jack serves on the loan committee of the Region 10 Business Loan Fund. In addition to Jack’s regional investment work, he also serves on his local town government as a town council member and is a State of Colorado Venture Capital Authority Board Member. Jack is a graduate of City University of New York and has an MBA from the Marshall School of the University of Southern California.
His initial business experience was in major account sales in NYC for five years with Monarch Systems. After graduate school he joined the corporate lending area of Bank of America, eventually becoming the VP head of the Energy and Manufacturing Sections of the International Office in Houston. After two years as an Assistant Treasurer for The M W Kellogg Company, he joined First Interstate Bancorp, then the sixth largest bank holding company in the country, initially as a VP in the parent company and ultimately EVP and COO of the credit card company.
He then did a startup and was Co-Founder and CEO of Integratec Corporation, a credit card back-office service company. Subsequently he was Chairman and CEO of CBR Information Group, a provider of credit information services to government and corporate clients.