Jeff Mallett

Jeff Mallett was the inspiration for the Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was its inaugural recipient in 2004. Jeff has been involved in many entrepreneurial ventures in his career. He was the president and chief operating officer of Yahoo! Inc. from 1995 – 2002. He is the co-owner of the San Francisco Giants baseball club, an investor and co-director of the Vancouver Whitecaps and a principal investor of Derby County Football Club in the UK. He is chairman and a principal investor of Indochino, one of the world’s largest online retailers of custom suits, and the owner of VIneyard Knolls Golf Club of Napa and Corotto Vineyards in Napa Valley. He is the founding lead investor and partner in technology venture capital fund Version One Ventures. 

Jeff is a strong supporter of both the Gustavson School of Business and UVic Vikes athletics (he attended UVic on a full soccer scholarship). In 2004, he established the Jeff Mallett Leadership Award, which supports students at the Gustavson School who are also Vikes athletes.