Jeffrey Vail
Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
As Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Jeffrey helps guide Spartan’s development from a regional medical sales firm to its emerging status as a global medical technology and distribution investor and innovator. He specifically works to develop Spartan’s domestic and international investment portfolio, its Ambulatory Surgery Strategy (ASC), and its government contracting activities.
Jeffrey has diverse career experiences ranging from founding and selling two venture-backed, energy-industry startups, and serving as the managing partner of a 17-attorney boutique litigation firm, to executing over 200 special operations missions in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Air Force Captain and Intelligence Officer. Jeffrey is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy (‘99), and the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law. He has presented papers at prestigious conferences, including the Yale Journal of International Law, and the Mediterranean Studies Association. He has an extensive international background including studying as an exchange cadet with the German Air Force Academy, studying Economics at Charles University in Prague, and working as an intelligence officer and attorney in over a dozen countries.