Jeffrey Minard is a senior business development executive. He has a practice in commercial finance with Forward Funding LLC, merging with his entrepreneurial background and knowledge of technical industries. He also works in the digital content and document scanning business and the new electronic waste industry.

Working in software development for over 20 years, Mr. Minard built D2Dnet, the top industrial distribution portal worldwide in1999. He has held positions with Fortune 500 companies such as Computer Sciences Corporation and Xerox. Over his entire career, Mr. Minard has written, co-authored or edited over 50 technical publications in information sciences and technical fields.

Mr. Minard has international business experience in import/export, and he was a licensee to the Winter Olympic Games in Calgary in 1988. He graduated from an international business program at Oxford University and has taught in the Ukraine. Mr. Minard received his BA in Anthropology from UCLA and his MBA from Pepperdine University.

As an active member of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church of Newport Beach, California, Mr. Minard currently serves on the missions committee. He has served in Africa on a short-term mission on HIV/AIDS relief, and helping World Vision and Opportunities International, with their programs in child sponsorship and micro-lending.