Funding For Your Business with Jeff McChesney Founder of Patriot Growth Capital

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Jeff McChesney is the founder of Patriot Growth Capital, a company dedicated to helping veteran entrepreneurs maximize their business growth potential through access to people, capital and business advice. He’s also the founder of Target Arm LLC which is developing systems to recover UAS and UAV’s.

Jeff McChesney – Educational Path

Jeff started at the Air Force Academy and received an aeronautical engineering degree.  He then received his masters from Columbia University on a Guggenheim Fellowship.  After receiving his masters, he then entered pilot training.

In the Air Force, Jeff was an F-15 fighter pilot, a commander at various levels therefore a great setup for the rest of his life.

“I ended up hiring a firm that worked specifically and directly for me.” Jeff McChesney on making the transition to civilian life

It’s not an ordinary course, about 10-15 2nd Lieutenants get chosen to continue their education at other universities. These schools include Columbia, Yale, Syracuse. There are schools all across the country and around the world as well.

Life After the Air Force

He had a tremendous career in the Air Force where he stayed there just under 21 years. He transitioned out due to family illness and had to make some tough decisions about his career versus family and he chose to go with family.

Jeff had to make a very abrupt change out of the Air Force. At the time of his retirement, he was serving on the J5 joint staff of strategy plans and policy in Washington DC.

Laying the Groundwork

Early in his career he had attended Harvard University to prepare himself for his career post-Air Force and whatever that might be. One of the areas he chose was how to use process improvement, accounting systems. He took a lot of that education and banked it.

At the transition point in his career, he needed to make the jump but did not want to end up being a defense contractor. That just wasn’t what he had in mind for himself. He had lobbying capability having worked on Capitol Hill twice but he wasn’t interested in that path.

He really wanted to get into business. Jeff had always been interested in it and tried to make the jump directly from the Air Force into business and he got really prepared for the transition.

To hear the rest of Jeff McChesney’s transition from the Air Force to civilian entrepreneur, download and listen to the rest of the episode.

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Check out these links for Jeff McChesney:

• Patriot Growth Capital
• LinkedIn
• Target Arm LLC

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