Jeremy Foxx
Building teams, scaling products, and driving innovation across technology, fire safety, and faith-driven organizations.
Seeking independent director and advisory board opportunities in fintech, industrial technology, and faith-aligned organizations.
Strategic Direction,
Operational Depth
Engineer by training. MBA by discipline. Steward by mission. I've spent 12+ years scaling products, leading global teams, and driving P&L accountability across industrial, fintech, and mission-driven sectors. I balance next quarter with next decade.
At IDEX Corporation, I quadrupled a fire safety division's revenue, then was promoted to lead a nine-figure global electronics portfolio. At Digital Onboarding, I doubled engineering velocity and reduced defects by 80% while implementing ML-powered customer insights for executive decision-making.
Currently serving as Board President for a 100+ unit HOA community, I bring hands-on governance experience: managing budgets, vendor negotiations, compliance, and stakeholder alignment. My faith-driven leadership includes raising $300K+ for parish building projects through the Knights of Columbus.
What I Bring to Your Board
Financial Stewardship
Quadrupled division revenue with full P&L accountability. Managed multi-million dollar budgets and reserve funds across industrial and tech contexts.
Technology & Innovation
Deep expertise in AI/ML, fintech, blockchain, and industrial engineering. Built predictive models, deployed ML sentiment analysis, and led digital transformation.
Risk & Safety Oversight
Certified Emergency Vehicle Technician and Wildland Firefighter. Led development of safety-critical systems with direct life-safety implications.
Stakeholder Leadership
Proven ability to align global teams, negotiate vendors, mentor talent, and drive cross-functional collaboration from engineering to executive suite.
Ready to Contribute
Prepared to serve on key board committees from day one
Audit & Finance
High ReadinessMBA finance concentration with direct P&L responsibility for nine-figure portfolio. Budget oversight, reserve fund management, and vendor contract negotiation experience.
Technology & Innovation
High ReadinessDeep technical background spanning AI/ML, embedded systems, and SaaS platforms. Capable of evaluating technical strategy, cybersecurity posture, and digital transformation initiatives.
Strategy & Growth
High ReadinessExperience translating long-range strategic vision into actionable roadmaps. Skilled at scenario planning, competitive positioning, and anticipating industry shifts before they arrive.
Risk & Safety
High ReadinessCertified in safety-critical systems with experience developing life-safety products. Understanding of regulatory compliance, insurance, and operational risk.
How I Govern
“Good governance is about clarity, accountability, and trust. The board's job isn't to run the company—but to make sure the right outcomes are inevitable.”
I hold my fiduciary duty to customers and investors as foundational—prioritizing long-term viability over short-term metrics, with incentives aligned accordingly.
My instinct is to observe first and stabilize the system. Most problems are structural, not personal—you get better outcomes by turning the ship deliberately rather than reacting by removing people before you understand what's broken.
Stewardship Over Control
Protect the mission, culture, and economic engine—especially during expansion or stress. My fiduciary duty is to customers and investors: long-term viability over short-term metrics. I resist panic-driven decisions that sacrifice people and culture instead of fixing root causes.
- •Pressure to use lower-cost component outside quality standards
- •Short-term savings vs. product reliability and brand trust
- •Chose to absorb higher cost, protect customer trust
- •Reinforced culture where quality is non-negotiable
- •Fast-moving fintech with delivery speed but planning gaps
- •Handoffs creating downstream delays and rework
- •Designed lightweight stage-gate process
- •Improved predictability without adding bureaucracy
Clarity & Accountability
Clear decision rights, ownership, and escalation paths. Ambiguity hides problems and delays action. Surface and resolve issues while they are small and inexpensive to fix.
- •Global portfolio with inconsistent margins across regions
- •Traced to unclear ownership and reporting structures
- •Created clearer escalation paths and decision rights
- •Reduced operational friction and improved decision quality
- •Engineering teams working hard but output inconsistent
- •Unclear handoffs between design, dev, and QA
- •Redesigned process with clear ownership per stage
- •Delivery became predictable, planning improved
Aligned Incentives
Trace outcomes back to incentives. Metrics and compensation should reinforce the company's real objectives—customer value, unit economics, and long-term health—not accidental or short-term ones. Correct incentives before assigning blame.
- •Strong top-line but inconsistent margin by region
- •Teams optimizing for what they were rewarded on
- •Realigned pricing governance and performance metrics
- •Growth became easier to manage, not harder
- •Slow delivery and high defect rates
- •Teams rewarded for shipping volume, not stability
- •Realigned metrics to reward quality and predictability
- •2x velocity, 80% fewer defects
Safe Escalation
Create environments where leadership can report failures, risks, and missed targets accurately and early. Without trust, metrics are gamed, problems are hidden, and pivots happen too late.
- •Pressure to give optimistic delivery timelines
- •Worked with engineering/sales to communicate delays honestly
- •Short-term friction but long-term trust
- •Customers came to rely on accurate commitments
- •Uncovered concerns about prospective partner legitimacy
- •Walking away carried short-term revenue risk
- •Escalated concern immediately to CEO
- •Avoided association with later-confirmed fraudulent entity
Trusted Partnership
Management should feel backed when making difficult decisions, but also challenged to think clearly. Disagree privately, align publicly, escalate only on material risk to the enterprise.
- •Privately challenged leadership on efficiency vs. quality tradeoff
- •Discussion grounded in data and process, not opinion
- •Leadership aligned with the concern
- •Strengthened trust between leadership and teams
- •Challenged leadership on speed vs. process clarity
- •Framed around scalability and risk, not blame
- •Changed direction without eroding trust
- •Leaders accept challenge when rooted in shared outcomes
Systems Thinking
View companies as systems where people, processes, technology, and capital interact. Behavior reflects system design, not individual failure. Govern toward scalability—repeatable execution, leadership depth, and capital efficiency. Heroics are warning signs, not strengths.
- •Issues manageable at current scale but would compound
- •Realigned structures before volume increased
- •Created repeatable processes, reduced tribal knowledge
- •Growth strengthened the system instead of straining it
- •Processes relied on workarounds and heroics
- •Rebuilt system emphasizing repeatable execution
- •Leadership depth and capital efficiency improved
- •System improved under load instead of degrading
Integrity & Trust
Trust is not a soft value—it is an operating requirement. Integrity, consistency, and transparency are prerequisites for effective governance. When trust exists, problems surface early and pivots happen with speed.
- •Built culture where delays were communicated honestly
- •Teams could surface problems without penalty
- •Escalation time reduced from weeks to days
- •Trust became operational advantage
- •Uncovered potential fraud in customer analysis
- •Chose reputation protection over short-term revenue
- •Escalated immediately, leadership aligned
- •Avoided significant downstream risk
I see governance as creating conditions where good decisions are repeatable—even under pressure. My role as a board member is to help build that system, not override it.
Connections That Create Value
A board member who can open doors, make introductions, and bring outside perspective
Connections by Industry
Connections by Seniority
Verified Expertise
Continuous learning across engineering, technology, leadership, and safety disciplines
Education
- 🎓MBAUniversity of Florida· 2019
- ⚙️BS Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of Central Florida· 2012
- 🤖AI/ML CertificateUC Berkeley Extension· 2024
- 📢Leadership CommunicationHarvard Extension· 2023
Technology & Product
- 🔄Certified Scrum MasterScrum Alliance
- 🧠AI Product ManagementPendo
- ⛓️Blockchain EssentialsIBM
- ✨Generative AI FundamentalsGoogle Cloud
Fire & Safety
- 🚒Emergency Vehicle Technician IEVT Certification
- 🔥Wildland FirefighterNWCG S-130/190
- ☢️Hazmat AwarenessOSHA
- 🆘Technical Rescue AwarenessFire Academy
Leadership & Business
- ⚔️4th Degree KnightKnights of Columbus
- 🏛️Board PresidentHOA Governance· Current
- 🎯Voice of the CustomerIDEX Leadership Development Program
- 🤝Strategic NegotiationMBA Specialty, UF
Plus 10+ additional certifications in engineering design, safety systems, and professional development
Engineering Impact
Select projects demonstrating technical depth and business value creation
Predictive Inventory Algorithm
Challenge
Fire equipment distributors faced costly stockouts and overstock situations due to unpredictable demand patterns.
Solution
Developed ML-based demand forecasting system analyzing historical sales, seasonality, and regional fire incident data.
Impact
- Reduced stockouts by 40%
- Decreased carrying costs by millions annually
- Improved order fulfillment rate to 98%
SmartNozzle / AutoFiretruck
Challenge
Firefighters manually controlling nozzle flow and truck systems in dangerous, high-stress environments leads to suboptimal water delivery and increased risk.
Solution
Invented intelligent nozzle system with automated flow control and integrated truck automation for optimized firefighting operations.
Impact
- Automated nozzle flow optimization
- Reduced firefighter cognitive load
- Submitted as invention disclosure
ML Customer Sentiment Analysis
Challenge
Executive team lacked real-time visibility into customer satisfaction across thousands of support interactions.
Solution
Built NLP pipeline processing support tickets, NPS responses, and product reviews to surface actionable insights.
Impact
- Real-time sentiment dashboard for C-suite
- Identified 3 critical product gaps
- Reduced churn indicators by 25%
Industry Contributions
FAMA Guidelines
Foam and CAFS Guidelines for Fire Apparatus
Authored technical guidelines for foam systems and Compressed Air Foam Systems (CAFS) for the Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association. These standards guide manufacturers in the design and implementation of foam delivery systems on fire apparatus.
Gulf Fire Magazine
October 2020“Foam and Foam Hardware”
Featured in Gulf Fire Magazine's coverage of frontline firefighting technology for oil field protection. IDEX Fire & Safety Group described the latest foam and hardware technology for fire protection in high-capacity oil production installations where seconds count.
Trusted by Industry Leaders
"Jeremy consistently demonstrated exceptional skill in delivery management, operational excellence and data-driven team enablement. His work in codifying sprint rituals and standardizing communication channels significantly improved the predictability of the product development lifecycle. As a developer and team lead, I found his metrics on velocity and product performance informative and particularly useful in reducing the team's defect escape rate."
"Jeremy is a well rounded engineer highly versed in mechanical design. He's detailed, reliable, intelligent, resourceful and thinks outside the box, having turned in numerous invention disclosures which are very forward thinking. He's not afraid to roll up his sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the job done. He's one of our rising super stars."
"Jeremy is a team player and gets the team motivated to achieve the end goal. Always happy to help and support when needed."
"In my first year of working directly with Jeremy I find he is very knowledgeable and focused on the task at hand. Great personality and easy to work with."
Executive Experience
Board President
Oversee governance and financial management of 100+ unit communities. Lead board meetings, policy development, vendor contracts, and regulatory compliance.
- Fiduciary oversight of community reserves
- Policy development & enforcement
- Vendor negotiations & contract management
Founder
Consulting practice spanning product strategy, full-stack development, and digital marketing. Delivered solutions across custom web applications, Shopify/WordPress builds, and marketing automation.
- Business & product strategy consulting
- Full-stack web development
- Marketing automation & digital growth
Co-Owner
Built and scaled a crypto mining eCommerce business from the ground up. Led web presence, content strategy, and direct sales pipeline that drove 3x revenue growth.
- 3x revenue through data-driven marketing
- Conversion-focused eCommerce UX
- SEO content strategy & organic growth
Product Operations Manager
Partnered with CPO/CTO to optimize product and engineering operations. Built ML sentiment analysis system that reduced manual workload 80% and surfaced actionable customer insights.
- 2x engineering velocity
- 80% reduction in manual CX workload
- Human-in-the-loop ML sentiment analysis
Co-op Engineer → Global Product Manager
Nearly a decade of progressive leadership in safety-critical product development. Started as engineering co-op, promoted through four roles to lead global Electronics, Foam, and CAFS product lines.
- 4x revenue growth (multi-million dollar product line)
- Predictive inventory reducing fleet downtime
- Authored FAMA foam & CAFS guidelines
- Led sensorless flow control algorithm development
Research Assistant
Food Engineering Lab research on sustainable agriculture for developing nations. Investigated cassava processing and biogas production from agricultural waste.
- Enzymatic hydrolysis research
- Renewable energy from agricultural waste
Projects That Demonstrate Value
Each project showcases skills directly relevant to board oversight: technical due diligence, stakeholder engagement, compliance, and values-driven innovation.
Relic Directory
Global directory of Catholic relics with mapping, documentation, and community submissions.
Community trust, data governance, stakeholder engagement
MCP Nexus
Platform for developers to interact with Model Context Protocol, integrating AI models with external tools.
AI governance, emerging tech literacy, compliance
VirtueScore
Catholic film guide evaluating movies through a moral lens with comprehensive virtue scoring.
Values-driven design, community building
BTCDepth
Bitcoin liquidity and market impact simulator for institutions and advanced investors.
Financial risk communication, emerging markets
Fortyfy
Spiritual growth platform for tracking Lenten goals with daily reflections and progress monitoring.
Mission operationalization, measurable outcomes
Foxxception
Consulting practice portfolio showcasing rapid prototyping and product strategy for startups.
Entrepreneurial vision, digital transformation
Beyond the Boardroom
Faith, service, and creative expression that ground my perspective
Values-Driven Leadership
Knights of Columbus
Marketing volunteer managing digital campaigns for major fundraising initiatives. Helped raise over $300,000 for parish building projects.
YouTube Channels
Creator of Daily Mysteries and Veil & Keys channels with 100+ videos on faith, culture, and theology.
Humanitarian Service
Habitat for Humanity construction volunteer and Meals on Wheels delivery — hands-on service that grounds perspective and deepens community connection.
Firefighter Cancer Research
Championed and secured $10,000 in funding for firefighter cancer risk mitigation research — an initial donation followed by an IDEX Foundation grant. Supporting the health and safety of those who protect our communities.
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Photography
Street photography and travel documentation across Miami, Oregon, Berlin, and Frankfurt. Visual storytelling that captures culture and human connection.
View PortfolioDJ Unforsaken
Electronic music production and live performance. Community building through shared experiences and cultural connection.
How I Add Value
Proven impact across revenue, operations, product, and governance
Revenue Growth
4xQuadrupled product line revenue in 2 years through strategic positioning and market expansion.
Profitability & Cost Control
MillionsDelivered significant annual savings through predictive inventory, process optimization, and vendor negotiations.
0→1 Product Building
5+Launched new products from concept to market, including safety-critical systems and SaaS platforms.
Voice of the Customer
NPS↑IDEX-trained in VoC methodology. Built ML sentiment analysis surfacing actionable customer insights.
Compliance & Governance
100%HOA Board President. Deep experience with regulatory compliance, audits, and fiduciary responsibility.
Team & Talent Development
2xDoubled engineering velocity through process improvements, mentorship, and cross-functional alignment.
Sectors Where I Excel
Catholic Organizations
Healthcare systems, educational institutions, and faith-based nonprofits seeking directors with authentic Catholic values and operational expertise.
Fire Safety & Industrial
Emergency services, industrial equipment, and safety-critical sectors requiring technical fluency and regulatory compliance experience.
Technology & Startups
SaaS companies, fintech firms, and tech startups seeking board members who understand product, engineering, and scale.
Ready to Discuss Board Opportunities
Seeking independent director and advisory board opportunities in fintech, industrial technology, and faith-aligned organizations.
Interested in roles at early-stage through growth-stage companies
Advisory boards • Independent director • Committee roles