Jeff graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed his MBA at London Business School and PhD at Imperial College London. His scholarly research has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association and Science. ​

He is a devoted dog dad.

As a novelist and essayist, his writing explores themes of vulnerability, identity, and the fragile places where people find themselves most human.

His first novel, Florid follows a young man drawn into the orbit of a magnetic figure whose attention feels like salvation until he begins to understand its cost. It's a story in the dark academia tradition of complicity, class, and how intimacy becomes weaponized as a mechanism of control.