The founder and former CEO of Extech Instruments Corp., a manufacturer and supplier of portable printers and test and measurement instruments sold worldwide. Printers and Instruments were made in the USA, China and Taiwan and sold through national industrial and retail distributors. Company was sold to FLIR in 2007.rr

Jerry has strong strategic management and marketing skills along with New Product Development, Sourcing and Export marketing experience. Sold company to FLIR Systems, a public company in 2007 when revenues were at $48 million.

Jerry lives in Boston, Massachusetts and Osterville on Cape Cod and devotes his time now to volunteer work, including:

1) Managing the Blakeley Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization setup and funded in 2007.  The Foundation (www.blakeleyfoundation.org) supported the popular Blakeley Fellowship program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for ten years enabling more than 95 graduate students to spend 8-10 weeks doing meaningful volunteer work between their first and second year in more than 47 countries.

Recent Blakeley Foundation focus has been on supporting two organizations supplying medical supplies to the Ukraine and supporting local organizations on Cape Cod.

2)  Supporting with active participation in SaveDowses.org working to prevent overseas offshore wind companies from bringing their high power lines through our beaches and residential communities. 

Jerry was born in Boston on June 15, 1943 and grew up in Cambridge and Weston, Massachusetts. Jerry went to Fessenden, Avon Old Farms School, and the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.