Married
to Julie and the father of four children Cameron, Cole,
Jade and Quinn, Verne is the founder of two world-renowned
entrepreneurship organizations, the
Young Entrepreneurs'
Organization (YEO) and the
Association of Collegiate
Entrepreneurs (ACE), Verne is presently founder and
CEO of Gazelles, Inc., which serves as an outsourced
corporate university and hosts a faculty of well-known
business experts including Jim Collins, Geoff Smart,
Jack Stack, Neil Rackham, Seth Godin, and Pat Lencioni
and sponsors best practices trips to
GE, Southwest Airlines,
Microsoft, and Dell.
The "Growth Guy" columnist for several publications
and a contributing editor for
Fortune Small Business
magazine, Verne is the author of Mastering the Rockefeller
Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your
Fast-Growth Firm, which has been translated into Spanish,
Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Named one of the
"Top
10 Minds in Business" by Fortune, he appeared on
the cover of the Dec/Jan 2002 issue of the magazine.
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