 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 for mid-size firms and hosts a faculty of well-known business experts including Geoff Smart, Jack Stack, Don Peppers, Aubrey Daniels, Neil Rackham, and Pat Lencioni and is educational partners with GE, Southwest Airlines, and Dell. Gazelles has also created the first affordable "digital dashboard" web-based application called
Flash Report.
The "Growth Guy" syndicated columnist and 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 was released in April 2002 and has been translated into several languages. Named one of the "Top 10 Minds in Small Business" by Fortune Small Business Magazine (FSB), he appeared on the cover of the Dec/Jan 2002 issue of the magazine.
 Verne serves on the board of the New York City based National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and chairs the renowned "Birthing of Giants" entrepreneurship leadership program at MIT. He also chairs the leadership program for the prestigious Top 40 Under 40 Awards in Canada and helped launch in 2002 a new executive program in Malaysia entitled "Taipan, the Making of Asian Giants."
Verne was the co-creator and presenter of CareerTrack’s Implementing Total Quality Management program, audio, and four volume video series; and was a certified presenter for Tom Peters’ In Search of Excellence and developer/presenter for his Liberation Management programs. He is also the author and presenter of the audio and video series Controlling Interruptions and a two volume video series on Creativity and Innovation.
Given his expertise in the field of entrepreneurship, he has appeared on several national television and radio programs including Smart Money, CBS News, and Nation’s Business Today; and appeared in stories in over one hundred magazines and newspapers including Forbes, Inc., and The Wall Street Journal.
Verne has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Wichita State University. He is married to Julie and has a 6 year-old son Cameron, a 4 year-old son Cole, and newborn daughter Jade. Hobbies include piano, tennis, and magic as a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Honors include National Leader of the Year for Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership honorary organization) and one of the first two recipients of the National Laureate Award for Leadership by Tau Beta Pi (Engineering honorary organization).
Biography courtesy of http://www.gazelles.com/verne.html
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