Advisory Board Bio

Allon H. Lefever
Advisor

Allon Lefever has 30 years of extensive business management experience spanning agriculture, industrial, and Internet executive positions. He has served as Group Vice President of Operations for V.F.Weaver, Inc., Vice President of Affiliated Companies for High Industries, Inc., Founder of SuperNet, and President of the Northeast Region of OneMain.com.

Following a successful IPO in 1999, OneMain was sold to Earthlink in 2001, with Mr. Lefever serving as Vice President of Acquisitions for Earthlink. As an entrepreneur, he helped found 22 companies, including six IPO’s, raising over $4 billion dollars in capital.

He also spent seven years in academics, serving as Director of the Goshen College Family Business Program for two years, Director of the MBA Program at Eastern Mennonite University for five years, and as a business professor teaching entrepreneurship and management.

Mr. Lefever has a passion for entrepreneurship and the importance of integrating values into businesses. He has practical experience from his involvement in the formation and management of 16 private and six public companies over his career. In addition to his Board service and consulting businesses, he is founder of a hospitality company that recently opened a Hampton Inn and Suites in Woodstock, Virginia, and a small SRI venture capital company.

Mr. Lefever has served on 48 private and public boards over his career, and continues to serve on a number of private and community boards specializing strategic and succession planning, primarily with family businesses.

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