Jeff Sandefer lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a teacher. As an entrepreneur, he founded several successful companies -- his first at age 16.
As a Socratic Teacher at the University of Texas, Jeff was voted five times as the school’s Outstanding Teacher by his students, and Businessweek named him one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in America.
In 2010 Jeff and his wife Laura started Acton Academy, a cutting edge K12 school that blends a one room schoolhouse, the Socratic Method and 21st century technology to equip each student to change the world.
Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he served for over twenty years on the school’s governing committees. He was a longtime director of National Review magazine and Philanthropy Roundtable and is one of the youngest members ever elected to the Texas Business Hall of Fame.