Jason Klein

Appointed by the Office of the President to build a national fundraising function from the ground up at CWRU — the fastest-growing research university in the 71-member Association of American Universities.

★ Personally secured $7.1M in gifts in 18 months — 158% of goal.
★ Designed a 62-market territory optimization strategy built from 70 constituent data sets.
★ Recruited, hired, and mentored a t

Built and ran an independent personal training and nutrition coaching business as a Beachbody coach.

★ Grew from a standing start to 181 private clients in year one, and 318 clients over four years.
★ Developed original fitness programs — including "Beachbody 101," "Beachbody 201," "Kilauea," and "Summer Six-Pack" — that collectively drew tens of thousands of participants.
★ Co-founded and moder

★ Co-lead for fundraising effort for CWRU's new Institute for Glial Sciences
★ Trained senior leadership - including my eventual boss - across the university on scalable fundraising strategies

Led philanthropic strategy for one of the country's top medical schools, focused on scholarships, professorships, and research support through major and planned gifts.

★ Raised $7M in endowments over the first two full years in role; 350% of goal.
★ Closed 43 gifts, including 12 new endowments and 2 endowed professorships.
★ Received the WOW! Award for outstanding leadership, performance, and pro

Between August 2017 and October 2021, I served as a consultant with various entities within the technology, startup, and real estate spaces. My consultancy duties primarily focused on scaling sales, business development, marketing, operations, and customer service.

Co-founded a professional concierge startup — operating out of the Capital Factory accelerator in Austin — built to keep companies' most important employees in the office rather than waiting at home for service contractors. The business was indefinitely postponed when COVID-19 sent everyone home, inverting the exact problem it was built to solve.

★ Built the company from scratch: investor pitch d

I began as a consultant, and several months later was offered a role as Head of Sales. In this role, I was in charge of hiring, training, and coaching sales reps, surveying growth opportunities, enabling sales improvements, developing the product mix and pricing structure, and ensuring the department’s performance against targets.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
★ Devised and executed the company’s first-ever c

Developed and led a sustainable growth strategy — policies, sales enablement, and marketing initiatives — for a branding and marketing agency.

★ Drove a 475% increase in client base and doubled agency revenue within the first fiscal year Clients included Dell, Intel, and Tektronix.
★ Served as a business consultant across all client accounts — advising on growth strategy, messaging architecture,

Joined a young vacation-rental startup (2,300 homes under management) and built its first-ever inside sales department from the ground up.

★Grew the department from a team of one to 32 direct reports across three sales teams plus a supporting operations team.
★Generated nearly $35M in new revenue in the first 18 months and increased overall sales opportunities by 40%.
★Designed a 5-day structure

★ Developed and executed sales strategies to align with the company's goals and target market.
★ Leveraged a relationship from a prior role into a deal so strong it made Solea an acquisition target — the company sold two months after the deal closed, four months after I joined.

Recruited to run all business operations for Major League Baseball's only professional franchise in Queensland — sponsorship, ticketing, HR, marketing, facilities, and game-day operations. Took over a franchise near the bottom of the league and built it into a league leader within two seasons.

★ Won the league's "Administration of the Year" award for 2014–15, driven by a 2,700% increase in corpor

Vitera Healthcare Solutions (formerly Medical Manager and now Greenway Health) was an electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system which processed 32 million transactions and 1.6 million e-prescriptions monthly.

★ Enrolled in a 3-month training program which included a comprehensive course on Solution Selling. The final exam was given in front of the executive board. I received

Led alumni engagement and fundraising for the law school.

★ Increased alumni giving percentage by 400% and reunion class giving totals by 1,400% through a targeted pipeline-building methodology.
★ Secured 20+ new major gifts ranging from $25K to $600K, including endowments for a Dean's Fund, student group fund, and multiple scholarships.
★ Increased giving to Dean’s Fund by 30%.
★ Built and maint

Took over a professional baseball franchise and rebuilt it from the ground up.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
★ Secured $600K+ in corporate sponsorship, group, and season ticket sales — a 24% increase in sponsorship revenue and 650% increase in season ticket packages.
★ Served as Facilities Manager for the stadium, securing funding and resources to update several parts of the stadium, including concessions, pr

One-month internship bridging law and sports management — contributed to representation of 40+ professional baseball clients through research, marketing strategy, and legal support, immediately leading to my first General Manager role.

Litigation practice spanning Endangered Species Act, water law, corporate law, and HR law.

KEY ACHIEVEMENT
★ Served as a primary drafting attorney on the largest habitat conservation plan ever assembled in the U.S.
The plan protected 27 species from extinction for a 99-year term.

Specialized in Endangered Species Act and California water law.

★ Published two law review articles on Clean Water Act attorney's-fee recovery and post-Buckhannon litigation strategy.
★ Articles addressed a major shift in environmental litigation following the Supreme Court's Buckhannon decision.

Legal intern specializing in environmental law, including land use, water law, and Endangered Species Act matters — the practice area I'd go on to build a career in.

Corporate law internship during law school, gaining early exposure to business transactions and corporate counsel work.

Consistently ranked in the top 5% of CDW's national sales force. Built 200+ active accounts from cold calling, including 28 generating $100K+ annually and one exceeding $750K. Managed a 12-person sales team in my final year while remaining a full individual contributor.

Broke Vector Marketing's national monthly sales record among ~10,000 active reps. Three-time President's Club member (top 2% of the company), with a 95% closing ratio against a 66% company average. Promoted to Assistant Branch Manager, then Branch Manager, training and developing roughly 200 reps along the way.

At 22, built and ran a 70-person independent sales team as owner-operator of a Vector Marketing branch — while a full-time college student. Researched and secured territory in Parkersburg, WV; interviewed 802 applicants to build the team from scratch. Set the territory's all-time team sales record.